
13 episodes

Crafted Artium
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3.9 • 33 Ratings
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Craft. Attention to detail. Constant iteration. There’s an art to creating great software. On Crafted, host Dan Blumberg speaks with engineers, designers and product people of all stripes to explore great products and the craft of software development. We’ll get into the weeds to understand: What trade-offs did they make? What experiments did they run? And what was the moment when they knew – when they just knew – that they were on to something?
At Artium we care deeply about the craft of building great software - and great companies. We help organizations build best in class products, industry leading software and collaborative cross-functional teams that scale. Join us as we explore the art of… craft.
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A Recruiter Spills the Beans: Tips to Help You Get Your Next Tech Gig, Featuring Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium
There’s turmoil in tech right now, so here’s a special episode for job-seekers looking for their next great gig.
On this episode of Crafted, Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium, shares tips on how to position yourself, how to talk to recruiters, what *not* to put on your resume, and so much more. Plus, she’ll share her philosophy on talent acquisition and why remembering that we’re human is at the center of it all.
Crafted is a show about great products and the people who make them. At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com -
Incubating Startups That Solve Massive Social Challenges. Featuring Sonali Zaveri, Design and Operations Lead at Ideas42 Ventures
“There was just no way I could say no”. That was how Sonali Zaveri felt about working with Ideas42 Ventures, after learning about the first cohort of entrepreneurs she would advise. Ideas42 Ventures is a venture studio that aims to solve massive social problems by helping founders with lived experience launch companies that address issues like poverty and inequality. The founders are selected based on their potential, their passion, and their lived experience – and unlike other venture studios they don’t necessarily need a tech background, nor even a product idea on day one.
On this episode of Crafted, Design and Operations Lead Sonali Zaveri shares how she coaches these founders, as well as why entrepreneurship is such a “privileged sport” — and what she’s doing about that. We also discuss how Ideas42 Ventures uses behavioral science to design products that make lasting impact and why founders should be embarrassed by their first product.
This is Crafted from Artium: a show about great products, and the people who make them. At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com -
Running Experiments That Actually Move the Needle. Featuring Andres Glusman, Founder and CEO of DoWhatWorks (re-broadcast)
For those of you who are brand new to Crafted, this week we’re revisiting our very first episode where we featured experimentation master, Lean Startup Pioneer Andres Glusman:
“It's a crime. It's such a waste of time.” That’s how Andres Glusman feels about so many of the tests product teams run. That’s why the former head of product at Meetup founded DoWhatWorks, a company that enables you to see – and learn from – the A/B tests that other companies are running. Rather than test button color for the umpteenth time, Andres wants you to test something that will really move the needle.
After more than a decade of running product and strategy at Meetup.com, and a lifetime of being fascinated by experiments, Andres is passionate about helping others learn. In this episode, Andres shares what he’s discovered about testing and human behavior, and why running experiments is critical, but also when it’s not.
This is Crafted from Artium; a show about great products, and the people who make them. At Artium, we build incredible products and recruit high performing teams. Check us out at thisisartium.com. -
From 4 Slides to $4 Billion: A Master Class on Customer Validation and Rapid Iteration, Featuring Jon Walker, Co-founder and CTO at AppFolio
How Jon Walker spotted a trend, validated an opportunity, sold his solution before even building it, and created a multi-billion dollar company via the “unfair advantage” of rapid iteration.
Back in 2007, Jon saw desktop software everywhere… at restaurants, doctors’ offices, the gym…and he realized it was all gonna move to the web. “So what’s the opportunity here?” On this episode of Crafted, we’ll hear how Jon and his co-founder homed in on property management as their target market and validated their solution with just four slides. We’ll also learn why rapid iteration is absolutely essential, why the secret to great talent management lies in lessons from basketball and fishing, and why Jon thinks artificial intelligence is the wave that AppFolio should ride for the next two decades. -
Put It on the Blockchain! Featuring Instamint Founder Jamiel Sheikh. Recorded Live in New York at a Special Fintech & Crypto Event
Jamiel Sheikh is the founder of three different companies all serving the crypto space: Chainhaus, CBDC Think Tank, and most recently, Instamint, which he says will do for tokens what Stripe did for payments, i.e. make it super easy. In this episode we talk about the “unsexy” problems Instamint is solving for enterprises that want to leverage the blockchain, what it takes to build a great API-first company, and why he only sees demand for crypto solutions growing, despite the recent turmoil in the markets. Our interview with Jamiel comes from a special Artium event that we hosted at Rise, Created by Barclays, an incubator for fintech startups.
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Tech For Democracy. Featuring Yemi Adewunmi, COO at Civic Eagle
It’s not every day you meet someone who gets ultra excited by the legislative process, but Yemi Adewunmi finds it inspiring: “Why be an innovator if you're not going to be optimistic?”. And that’s one of the reasons she founded Civic Eagle, a startup that helps policy professionals and lobbyists track and collaborate on bills as they wind through Congress or state legislatures on their way to becoming laws…or dying in committee. Either way, Civic Eagle wants to make that journey more transparent, make it easier for advocates to collaborate, and improve democracy in the process.
Customer Reviews
Very thoughtful.
Interesting podcast. Good host. Good guests.
Love the focus on entrepreneurs and decisions
I appreciate that this isn’t just another podcast with entrepreneurs saying how great they are. The way Dan talks guests through how they made decisions in difficult situations is so much more helpful.
Great insights into how to build product and teams
Love all the stories, and how tech leaders found a way to identify problems and create solutions that became best practices in the industry.