NationBuilder, every mention
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every year anyone Toni Cowan-Brown 23Benedict Evans 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where NationBuilder comes up
AI deployment
- ▶ 15:05 Toni Cowan-Brown I mean, we had presidential candidates at nation builders saying, we think we can build, build this software in house.
What jobs are AI jobs?
- ▶ 12:56 Benedict Evans You were, I don't know, five or five or six years at NationBuilder.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 23:06 Benedict Evans You know, on your company, the company you worked for when you were still doing enterprise software, I was a nation builder.
From SAAS software to Formula 1
- ▶ 2:25 Toni Cowan-Brown If you take away, or she works for nation builder or she works for a fortune 500 company, or, you know, she's VP of sales or VP of business development.
A new wave of company creation
- ▶ 4:57 Toni Cowan-Brown And I can't, I can't help, but be brought back to one of my first interviews when I was working at nation board that a tech company I used to build work with.
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 5:52 Toni Cowan-Brown When I used to work at NationBuilder, our CEO at the time would always say, we're deeply opinionated about a few things.
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 6:06 Toni Cowan-Brown And I left to work for NationBuilder, a tech company.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 25:02 Toni Cowan-Brown So we, you know, when I was at NationBuilder this, you could build a website, you could build email, you could build newsletter, you could do all of these things.
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 34:26 Toni Cowan-Brown That's where my head always goes when I talk about newsletters and emails, and it's just when politics, you know, what is it going to look like when politicians, when I used to work at Nationworld, that was the big thing of, we need to…
Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- ▶ 11:07 Toni Cowan-Brown The half an hour thing is interesting to me, because as someone who did remote work in a company, so when I worked at NationBuilder, we were in person, it was a company where everyone went to the office, then it flipped to remote friendly,…
- ▶ 35:26 Toni Cowan-Brown Again, especially when I started my job at Nation Building, I was one of the only people in Europe.
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 20:46 Toni Cowan-Brown And it's, it was the same when we saw at nation build, it was the same thing is we had the platform, but we limited what you could do because we also knew that if people, if we didn't limit people, they would push the boundaries of the…
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 15:49 Toni Cowan-Brown And it's, and look, it's what NationBuilder did. 4 times in the scene
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 1:45 Toni Cowan-Brown We used to do that, by the way, at NationBuilder.
- ▶ 5:46 Toni Cowan-Brown And again, we did this at Nation Builder with onboarding is like, here, how you use, this is how you use Slack.
- ▶ 8:27 Toni Cowan-Brown And I've, I mean, at nation bull that got to a point, our initial founder and CEO, um, loved it so much and built so many integrations to the point where if anyone asked, Hey, I've got a quick question.
- ▶ 11:22 Toni Cowan-Brown A little bit at Nation Builder while I was selling software to campaigners, and we saw it in the campaign space as well, of it used to be your campaign director who would buy the set of tools that the local volunteers, who, to your point,… 2 times in the scene
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 26:53 Benedict Evans Nation Builder.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 7:56 Toni Cowan-Brown I mean, when I used to work at nation builder, we had also such a hard time of defining.
- ▶ 21:40 Toni Cowan-Brown It's so much easier, but also it's, it's interesting you say that because it was the same for me when I was building out NationBuilder, um, in, in Europe.
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 1:06 Benedict Evans Um, looking at Americans building software companies and Tony spent a bunch of time in Europe working for nation builder, trying to build a European software company.
- ▶ 41:58 Toni Cowan-Brown I still think there's a desire for most, and I don't think it's Europe, and I think that's where I find a little bit sad, which I go back to, is Europe a market in itself, because I think there is more of a desire of the next French big… 2 times in the scene