The All Turtles Podcast

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Designing mmhmm Sep 02, 2020

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Mmhmm, our newest All Turtles product, upgrades video calls with beautiful backdrops and rooms, the designs for which had to be put together in record time. Allie Packard, our fearless Senior Designer, is here to share how she and her team went from the earliest mmhmm sketches to the product we see today. How did they create such dynamic and varied imagery while staying true to the brand?

Introducing mmhmm Aug 26, 2020

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Mmhmm is our latest All Turtles product, which we built to make video calls more efficient—and more fun. After our podcast's summer hiatus, we're eager to share how we spun out this product at breakneck speed during the pandemic. Mmhmm's suite of tools make any Zoom or Google Meet something to look forward to, with beautiful backdrops and rooms, immersive recordings, and collaboration abilities. As Phil says, why try to just match IRL experiences when you could make them infinitely better?

Conversational AI with Noelle Silver May 27, 2020

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When you ask Amazon's Alexa to complete a task, that voice interaction is possible because of the work of people like Noelle Silver. She wrote some of Alexa's earliest skills, and as her career took her from Amazon to Microsoft, she saw an opportunity to launch the AI Leadership Institute. On today's podcast, she covers her current work as the VP of Digital Technology at NPR, the relationship between AI and art, and how she's hoping to use AI to help make journalists' jobs easier.

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Noelle Silver is the VP of Digital Technology at NPR.

Jake Ward interviewed Noelle about AI and art, and we featured Jake on an earlier episode of the All Turtles Podcast.

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Figma and the future of collaborative design May 20, 2020

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Product design is collaborative, but with extended shelter-in-place guidelines, teams have had to reassess what it means to work together. Figma is one of the best tools for product creators working remotely, but even before we were relegated to our homes, Figma had become essential to us at All Turtles because of its intuitive features. Figma's Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto joins us today to walk through how they continue to iterate on the creation of indispensable tools.

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Sho Kuwamoto is the Director of Product at Figma.

Figma has its own guidelines for remote design process.

Figma recently raised its series D.

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The future of remote learning May 13, 2020

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With campuses closed and classes relegated to Zoom sessions, COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. Scoodle, a UK-based learning platform that connects students with tutors, is ensuring students can still get the support they need. On today's episode, Scoodle's cofounder and CEO Ismail Jeilani is sharing how this pandemic has brought remote learning to the forefront of education, and why he wants to help teachers achieve rock-star status for the work they do.

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Ismail Jeilani is the cofounder and CEO of Scoodle.

Twitter cofounder Biz Stone is one of Scoodle's backers.

Ismail's experience as a tutor inspired him to build Scoodle.

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How a social distancing app came to be May 06, 2020

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What do you do when a global pandemic wipes out your business model as an early-stage startup? If you're Sebastian Müller, cofounder of Lanterne, you quickly pivot to create a product to help people stay safe as coronavirus spreads. That's how he and his team began building Crowdless, an app that provides real-time information on the crowdedness of supermarkets to help with social distancing. Today Sebastian is sharing Lanterne's approach to meeting the world's most pressing needs on rapid timelines.

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Sebastian Müller is the cofounder of Lanterne, which builds crisis technology.

Crowdless is an app that tells you how crowded supermarkets are so you can social distance effectively.

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Coronavirus misinformation with Renée DiResta Apr 29, 2020

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Where did the conspiracy that "Bill Gates engineered coronavirus" come from? This is the type of query that Renée DiResta investigates as the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, where she tracks the spread of misinformation (and disinformation) online. She's been monitoring the dissemination of narratives about the emergence of COVID-19, how it's treated, and how the government has responded, and has an explanation for why there's so much speculation at every level.

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Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory.

Renée follows epidemiologists and others on Twitter who share verifiable information about COVID-19.

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AI and the future of work Apr 22, 2020

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And now for an episode that was recorded pre-COVID-19. Today, David Yakobovitch is joining the show to share his perspectives on AI and the future of work. David hosts the HumAIn Podcast, a show about artificial intelligence, data science, and developer education. He's also a Principal Data Scientist at Galvanize, a technology learning company that works with startups and large enterprises on deploying data science and AI solutions.

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David is a Principal Data Scientist at Galvanize, a technology learning company. David is also the host of the HumAIn podcast.

Executive decision-making in a global crisis Apr 15, 2020

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George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift, an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. George has led his company through the first phase of their response to the coronavirus pandemic, which involved creating a program to reduce prices for healthcare workers. The pandemic's economic impact has also meant that they've had to furlough some employees. Today, George is sharing how he's navigating tough decisions while managing a company during a global crisis.

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George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift.

Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars.

George spoke to Protocol about how he's been managing Shift during this global pandemic.

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COVID-19 and the Great Unpause Apr 08, 2020

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Over the past couple weeks on the podcast, we've talked about COVID-19's impact on the future of work and the future of health. Today, we're delving a little deeper into how we can come back from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Phil is calling "the great unpause." Why are "recession" and "recovery" ill-fitting terms to describe our current situation? What does hitting the pause button mean for different sectors of the economy, and what will it take to reset?

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