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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IDEO comes up
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:54 Sahil Bloom I think I first read it from Tim Brown, who was the CEO of IDEO at the time, um, of like engineered serendipity that you can kind of engineer your own luck.
20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings And before venture, David also spent time with IDEO, helping to create new consumer products and brands, and I'd also have to say a huge thank you to Roseanne Winchuk for the intro to David today.
20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @
- ▶ 16:31 David Frankel Storied IDEO. 5 times in the scene
20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- ▶ 5:34 Trae Vassallo So the first job out of Stanford was actually at a firm called IDEO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Trae Vassallo Worked together at IDEO.
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Before that, Steve was a project leader at IDEO, where he developed more than a dozen successful products for companies including Cisco,
- ▶ 6:56 Steve Vassallo There just wasn't much in the way of kind of practical, tactical resources, so I felt like I needed to kind of go and fill this hole, and in many ways, I was thinking about kind of what it was like when I had left IDEO back in the late…
- ▶ 7:42 Steve Vassallo So if you look back 20 years ago on, on design, and this was absolutely the case during my tenure at IDO, design was most often brought in kind of as a 11th hour styling exercise. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Steve Vassallo And my case examples of this, you know, I did a lot of work with Cisco back when I was at IDO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:25 Steve Vassallo Turd syndrome at IDEO, where you would just, you know, you'd work on something too long, but I think there's a different countervailing failure mode, which is to just kind of burp out this lightweight prototype, which maybe is cute in some…
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 2:21 Ben Einstein And, uh, I used to run a product design consultancy, so a service business very similar to a company like IEO or any number of these sort of product design consultancies that are all over the world.