Build Better Tech: How the nation’s leading companies use tech as business strategy to win.
Build Better Tech brings you into the room with technology leaders at influential companies, talking about how to do hard work really well. We'll have upbeat conversations about how they've leveraged excellent tech as business strategy to craft their companies' futures, and we'll share both war stories and proudest moments, all with an eye towards doing great work and building great teams.This show is for everyone seeking to build better in their own work world, regardless of technological expertise, interested in hearing from the top leaders at companies they love.
Episodes
12 episodes
Airbnb CSO & Head of Trust Engineering & Data Science Vijaya Kaza: "There are no failures in life, only opportunities and experiences to learn from."
Vijaya Kaza is the Chief Security Officer and Head of Engineering & Data Science for Trust & Safety at Airbnb. She has an extraordinary record of technology leadership in building teams, guiding product development, and driving innovati...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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43:42
Lexmark Global CTO & CIO Vishal Gupta: “Ask: Is this critical or good-to-have?”
Vishal Gupta is the Global CIO and CTO, and SVP of Connected Technology at Lexmark, a brand you’ve likely encountered through their printing products. Our conversation opened my eyes to the wide range of applications for the technologies Lexmar...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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45:58
State Farm Chief Data Officer DeWayne Griffin: "Data is a team sport."
Today we hear from DeWayne Griffin, Chief Data Officer at State Farm. In the insurance industry, data is critical both to optimization of the business and to delivering a personalized customer experience, and the insight, expertise, and vision ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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48:22
Home Depot VP Justin Burleigh: “Play Chess, Not Checkers”
Justin Burleigh is the Vice President of E-Commerce and Interconnected Experience at Home Depot. He is the archetype of a great product person: laser-focused on empathy for the user, and visionary in solving problems without an attachment to th...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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43:51
Zoom CTO Brendan Ittelson
Brendan Ittelson loves solving problems for people and enabling them to accomplish their goals. He loved it even as a kid when he was tapped to troubleshoot tech issues around his school so often that he started a “Tech Squad”, and it seems to ...
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26:12
Dr. Luc Julia: Creator of Siri, CSO of Renault, Former CTO of Samsung, Inventor
Dr. Julia is one of the most accomplished technologists I'll ever be lucky enough to meet. He is well known as the creator of Siri, but he has driven innovation in some of the biggest companies on the planet, making contributions so significant...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:50
Imperfect Foods CEO Philip Behn
Imperfect Foods delivers fresh, delicious produce and other groceries to your door for up to 30% less than what those same groceries would cost you at a traditional store. They do it by recovering apples that are too giant, carrots that are too...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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48:58
Vitamin Shoppe CTO/COO Andrew Laudato
Andy Laudato has an incomparable level of experience in retail tech. In addition to developing groundbreaking customer-facing tech, he has the superpower of being able to understand the overall business and design solutions to optimize for it. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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49:15
Former Dave Ramsey Head of Digital Products Jon Shearer
Jon Shearer served as head of digital products at Dave Ramsey, creator of Financial Peace University and numerous other products designed to teach healthy personal financial practices and get out of debt. This was during Ramsey’s migration as a...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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47:40
Jammber CEO Marcus Cobb
With the advent of streaming services, the rise of creative and gig economies, and a lower barrier to entry to release content, tracking credit and getting paid fairly for creative work is really difficult. Jammber is a fast-growin...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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40:08
Lonely Planet CEO Luis Cabrera
Lonely Planet is an iconic brand within the travel industry, with their blue travel guidebooks serving as a staple in adventurers' backpacks for decades. So how does a company with that history to connect with a digital-first generation?
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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45:35
Build Better Tech Trailer - Season 1 Coming January 2020
Launching January 2020, Build Better Tech brings you into the room with technology leaders at influential companies, talking about how to do hard work really well. We'll have upbeat conversations about how they've leveraged excellent tech as bu...
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