
Dive Club 🤿 Steph Golik - Going from designer to founder
Jul 27, 2023
Steph Golik, an early design leader at Cruise, discusses how designers can transition to entrepreneurship and raise venture funding. Highlights include the advantages of designers in entrepreneurship, the role of design in startups, their journey to becoming a founder, investing in selling for fundraising and customers, their background in transportation architecture, de-risking their startup Huddle, and a new course for designers wanting to start their own companies.
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Introduction
00:00 • 4min
The Role of Design in Startup Companies
04:17 • 5min
From Childhood Entrepreneurship to Startup Lessons: A Journey towards Founding
08:49 • 3min
Investing in Selling: Fundraising and Customers
11:54 • 10min
From Transportation Architecture to Entrepreneurship
21:39 • 10min
De-risking Huddle: Building and Validating the Startup
31:50 • 21min
Developing a Course for Ambitious Designers Wanting to Start their own Companies
53:19 • 4min
