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Chad and Lindsey talk with Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, about all the different forms that sales can take, their revenue model, the importance of personal outreach, and building trust through content marketing. ShearShare ShearShare - Build My Business ShearShare on Instagram Special Guest: ShearShare.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, about product-led direct-to-consumer as the future of sales, capturing multiple market segments, and sales structure within Teikametrics. Teikametrics Facebook Shops Alasdair on LinkedIn Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Special Guest: Teikametrics.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey discuss thoughtbot's ideology around sales, the sales process & cycle, identifying your ideal customers, and fostering real relationships with customers. GitHub is now free for all teams a16z Podcast Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

We’re pushing out our next episode in the Giant Robots startup series. We want to pause to acknowledge, reflect, and take action against injustices against the black community. thoughtbot stands with the black community. We’re outraged by the systematic racism and violence in the US. George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and too many other members of the black community have lost their lives due to racial injustice. It needs to end. We recognize we haven’t been doing enough to fight this injustice and need to be active in anti-racism. Our D&I council and many others on the thoughtbot team are discussing how we can do more and are working on new initiatives to better support our black colleagues, friends, and beyond - far into the future. We're looking to do things both large and small. For example, this week we changed our conference reimbursement benefit to only be applicable to conferences that have a diverse speaker lineup and a code of conduct. We hope our efforts will be useful to others as well, and plan to make them available to other companies to work from. In the meantime, we’re going to link to a reading list that we recommend. Today we’re resharing a past episode that features a black voice in the tech community that we look up to and you should know - Shelly Bell. Shelly is the founder of Black Girl Ventures, an organization that creates access to social and financial capital for Black and Brown women founders. She’s been named in the Top 100 Power Women by Entrepreneur Magazine and has a fantastic story you don’t want to miss. Stay safe and see you soon. 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice How To Be An Antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi Behind By Design So You Want to Talk About Race- Ijeoma Oluo Save the Tears White Guyde To The Galaxy Black Tech for Black Lives Original Notes from Giant Robots Episode 354 Shelly Bell, CEO & Founder of Black Girl Ventures, discusses working to open up your messaging, what makes for a good pitch, and the current state of the investment landscape. Black Girl Ventures Ragbaby Exchange BEACON "Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get"- Harvard Business Review SheRaise Shelly on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey are joined by Michael Sheeley, founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1, to discuss feeling disconnected from the team during quarantine, evaluating for communication skills during the interview process, how communication standards differ in the medical field, and avoiding AI & automation within patient conversations. Nurse-1-1 Michael on Twitter Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Special Guest: Nurse-1-1.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey talk with Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, about being founded as remote company, their communication tools and methodologies, interview process, and messaging implementation. ShearShare Notion ShearShare Business Learning Portal ShearShare on Instagram Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Special Guest: ShearShare.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, about Teikametrics' guiding principles, Zoom fatigue, rethinking stances on remote work, the value of a peer group, and how retail is adapting during Covid-19. Teikametrics Coinbase planning and response to COVID-2019 Amazon '6 Pager' Methodology Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell- Eric Schmidt Good to Great- Jim Collins Alasdair on LinkedIn Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Special Guest: Teikametrics.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey discuss thoughtbot's methodology & tools for communication and collaboration, both in general and adapting them to a fully remote workplace, the pros and cons of this new environment, and approaching your work with optimism. This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Click through to get three months for free. 37 Signals (Now Basecamp) thoughtbot Playbook Being Human in the Absence of Humans: A Q&A for Product Teams Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Sponsored By:ExpressVPN: Click through to get three months for free!Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey talk with Michael Sheeley, founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1, on learnings from their launch, challenges of building in the health-tech space, their approach to long-term planning, and the future of medicine in a post COVID-19 world. Nurse-1-1 Michael on Giant Robots Harvard Innovation Labs Zocdoc Partnership Net Promotor Score (NPS) Health-Related Google Searches Doubled in the Week Before Patients’ Emergency Department Visits- Penn Medicine Michael on Twitter Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Special Guest: Nurse-1-1.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad and Lindsey talk with Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, about the history of the platform, how the beauty industry has been impacted by COVID-19, building yourself as a brand that people can trust, and how their product roadmap has adapted to the changing landscape. ShearShare ShearShare on Giant Robots Mentored by Failure- Tye Caldwell ShearShare Learning Portal Courtney on Twitter Tye on Twitter Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Special Guest: ShearShare.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots