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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys
Hasbro might be a toy company, but CEO Chris Cocks has spent the last several years pushing it more and more into the digital media, gaming, and collectibles space. That makes sense, since adults have money and kids don't. All those IP and licensing deals are working out for Hasb ... Show More
1h 12m
Mar 5
Prediction markets want to be the news
Today let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news in increasingly weird, unsettling, and potentially illegal ways. My guest today is Liz Lopatto, a senior reporter at The Verge who owns what we cheerfully call the chao ... Show More
45m 24s
Aug 2023
Job description: professional workplace bestie
<p>Stack Overflow’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focus on aspects of employees’ personhood, “who you are outside of your role, who you bring to every single room that you enter,” Joey explains. Among our ERGs are Black and Brown, LGBTQ+, MIND (mental illness and neurodiversity ... Show More
28m 51s
Aug 2023
The fine line between product and engineering
<p><a href="https://www.twilio.com/en-us" target="_blank">Twilio</a> is a customer engagement platform whose communication APIs for voice, text, chat, email, and video are used by millions of developers. See what’s happening on their <a href="https://www.twilio.com/blog" target=" ... Show More
22m 39s
Oct 2022
Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
<p>Sachin Monga is the Head of Product at Substack, a platform that I personally use every day, and love. Before Substack, Sachin co-founded an app called Cocoon, which he ended up selling to Substack. Before that, he spent over seven years at Facebook as a PM working on video an ... Show More
1h 1m
Today I'm talking to Prashanth Chandrasekar the CEO of Stack Overflow – a highly specialized kind of social network, with a really unique business model. If you don't know Stack Overflow is a major part of the modern software development landscape: it’s where developers come together, ask questions, and get answers about how to build software, including actu ... Show More
<p>If you missed the first part of this conversation, listen to it <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/14/multiplayer-programming-on-mobile-a-chat-with-replit-ceo-amjad-masad/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><a href="https://replit.com/" target="_blank">Replit</a> is a b ... Show More
<p>AI will change your work... But it's time for us to find the path forward.</p><h2>🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: <a href="https://developertea.com/square">Square</a></h2><p>Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to ord ... Show More
