🏆 Best Business Podcasts of 2022
Say whaaat?! 2022 has come and gone. What a wild ride it’s been.
Thanks to you, the Podup community, we’ve got a special treat to help you relive the best moments of 2022 …
Here are the Best Business Podcasts from last year as rated by you. Enjoy!
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#1 - Work Like Ocean's 11, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Deepfake Dilemma
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr talk about how the future of work will look like an Ocean's 11 team, height enhancing surgery, Sam Bankman-Fried, and how to solve the problem of deepfakes.
#2 - Airbnb's Brian Chesky: Do things that don’t scale
If you want your company to truly scale, you first have to do things that don't scale. Handcraft the core experience. Get your hands dirty. That's what Brian Chesky did. As CEO of Airbnb, Brian takes us back to his lean years and shares the imaginative route to crafting what he calls an "11-star experience.”
#3 - Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process
Gokul serves on the boards of Coinbase, Pinterest, and The Trade Desk and is a prolific angel investor, having invested in companies like Airtable, Khatabook, and 100+ more. He discussed with Lenny how to build a product development process at early-stage companies, how to headhunt lieutenants, and so much more.
#4 - How to Make Numbers Unforgettable
All of us use data. We use it to convince people at work, to decide which restaurant to go to, and where to invest our pension. But most of us don’t think about how we share data. Turns out, the way you share data is almost more important than the data itself. In this show, Karla Starr explains how to make numbers memorable.
#5 - Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
They did an Arena Show! Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal hosted the Idea Dinner with Packy McCormick and Mario Gabriele (and special guest judge Shu Nyatta), followed by the story of YC Continuity with managing partner Anu Hariharan.
#6 - Your Great Ideas Aren’t Unique (Here's Why That’s a Good Thing)
Very few of us come up with unique ideas. Just 1% of successful patents actually introduce something new to the world. Most successful ideas are built off other good ideas, so for true innovation, we should look at other fields like biology and psychology. That’s what Sam Tatam, head of Behavioural Science at Ogilvy, argues.
#7 - 4 Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri talk about four ideas of what you can do with AI, Twitter empires, and some of the billion dollar companies that have come from the Thiel Fellowship.
#8 - Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner joins the show to discuss the best moments of the All-In Summit, the state of the markets, the down market end game, proactive layoffs and course correction, and Sacks’s concept for "default investable".
#9 - Making Electronics Better
Anna Katrina Shedletsky had a problem: How do you make electronics manufacturing more efficient and less wasteful? Anna started her career as a design engineer at Apple. It was her job to figure out all of the potential manufacturing problems that might arise. She realized this was an almost impossible task that relied on hope and luck so she started a new company, Instrumental.
#10 - Tyra Banks: Personal brand power
To succeed in the modern business environment, you need to strut your stuff: to cultivate a personal brand that supports career growth. No one represents this better than Tyra Banks. As a model, a producer, and an entrepreneur, Tyra has forged a personal brand that has enabled her to make multiple pivots, building fame, wealth, and meaningful impact on the issues that matter most to her.
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