The All Turtles Podcast

Startup founders, product creators, and artificial intelligence experts share insights and advice about entrepreneurship and the AI industry. The show's three hosts—who are the cofounders of All Turtles, a global AI product company—facilitate conversations that explore the provocative ways entrepreneurs are using AI to solve real problems today.

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #6 - The Work Ahead 11/20/2020

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #6 - The Work Ahead So where do we go from here? How do we build a more inclusive future in tech? A good place to start is by listening to those who have worked to improve equity in Silicon Valley for years. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16884248

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #5 - Internal Investigation 11/18/2020

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #5 - Internal Investigation We’re turning the mirror on ourselves to assess diversity, equity, and inclusion at All Turtles. If we believe every company could benefit from open conversations about diversity issues, we need to start with ourselves. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16866071

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #4 - Built-in Bias 11/18/2020

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #4 - Built-in Bias Racial bias has not only worked its way into tech workplaces, it’s also in the products we build. How can we mitigate the harm that these biases cause in the products Silicon Valley puts out into the world? /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16854680

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #3 - The Pipeline Fallacy 11/17/2020

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #3 - The Pipeline Fallacy A common excuse tech companies make for their lack of diversity is to blame the “pipeline,” saying there aren’t enough qualified candidates from historically excluded groups in the talent pool. Why do tech companies lean on this argument, and what are they missing? "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16835654

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #2 - Original Gatekeepers 11/16/2020

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #2 - Original Gatekeepers It’s time to hop into the way, way back machine. We’re examining the history of Silicon Valley to better understand how we got to the current moment of racial inequity in tech. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16803581

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #1 - Monoculture 11/16/2020

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #1 - Monoculture Introducing "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech," a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking an in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16803527

When AI is misaligned 04/04/2022

When AI is misaligned Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By. His latest book is called The Alignment Problem. He’s here today to talk about everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix this lack of alignment, including lessons to be learned from a near missile strike. What will the future of algorithmic decision-making look like? /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16209785

The future of the reading brain 09/23/2020

The future of the reading brain How is digital media impacting our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection? This is an important question to consider, especially as we become increasingly dependent on technology. Our digital dependence has been amplified during the pandemic, as we rely heavily on virtual communications. Today, Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home, joins the podcast to share practical advice for fostering critical thinking while immersed in the digital world. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16120532

Privacy and community 09/16/2020

Privacy and community Products aren’t neutral—that’s our ethos at All Turtles. Products are built with a point of view that impacts the community of users and plays a role in the development of privacy guidelines. In this episode, All Turtles’ three cofounders (Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Jon Cifuentes) discuss community and privacy. Phil is the CEO of mmhmm, and Jessica is the CEO of Spot, so they share their perspectives on building these products with a specific POV. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/16023617

Fundraising during a pandemic 09/09/2020

Fundraising during a pandemic For startups, securing funding can be a long and bumpy road, and in many ways the pandemic has made it even bumpier. Tellus (an All Turtles product) has still found success in recent months, and today their CEO Tania A. Coke is imparting key lessons from their fundraising process. How did she and her team build new relationships with investors entirely over Zoom? /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/15932402

Designing mmhmm 09/02/2020

Designing mmhmm Mmhmm, our newest All Turtles product, upgrades video calls with beautiful backdrops and rooms, the designs for which had to be put together in record time. Allie Packard, our fearless Senior Designer, is here to share how she and her team went from the earliest mmhmm sketches to the product we see today. How did they create such dynamic and varied imagery while staying true to the brand? /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/15841433

Introducing mmhmm 08/26/2020

Introducing mmhmm Mmhmm is our latest All Turtles product, which we built to make video calls more efficient—and more fun. After our podcast’s summer hiatus, we’re eager to share how we spun out this product at breakneck speed during the pandemic. Mmhmm’s suite of tools make any Zoom or Google Meet something to look forward to, with beautiful backdrops and rooms, immersive recordings, and collaboration abilities. As Phil says, why try to just match IRL experiences when you could make them infinitely better? /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/15750101

Conversational AI with Noelle Silver 05/27/2020

Conversational AI with Noelle Silver When you ask Amazon’s Alexa to complete a task, that voice interaction is possible because of the work of people like Noelle Silver. She wrote some of Alexa’s earliest skills, and as her career took her from Amazon to Microsoft, she saw an opportunity to launch the AI Leadership Institute. On today’s podcast, she covers her current work as the VP of Digital Technology at NPR, the relationship between AI and art, and how she’s hoping to use AI to help make journalists’ jobs easier. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/14578847

Figma and the future of collaborative design 05/20/2020

Figma and the future of collaborative design Product design is collaborative, but with extended shelter-in-place guidelines, teams have had to reassess what it means to work together. Figma is one of the best tools for product creators working remotely, but even before we were relegated to our homes, Figma had become essential to us at All Turtles because of its intuitive features. Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto joins us today to walk through how they continue to iterate on the creation of indispensable tools. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/14486123

The future of remote learning 05/13/2020

The future of remote learning With campuses closed and classes relegated to Zoom sessions, COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. Scoodle, a UK-based learning platform that connects students with tutors, is ensuring students can still get the support they need. On today’s episode, Scoodle’s cofounder and CEO Ismail Jeilani is sharing how this pandemic has brought remote learning to the forefront of education, and why he wants to help teachers achieve rock-star status for the work they do. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/14373449

How a social distancing app came to be 05/06/2020

How a social distancing app came to be What do you do when a global pandemic wipes out your business model as an early-stage startup? If you’re Sebastian Müller, cofounder of Lanterne, you quickly pivot to create a product to help people stay safe as coronavirus spreads. That’s how he and his team began building Crowdless, an app that provides real-time information on the crowdedness of supermarkets to help with social distancing. Today Sebastian is sharing Lanterne’s approach to meeting the world’s most pressing needs on rapid timeline /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/14297471

Coronavirus misinformation with Renée DiResta 04/29/2020

Coronavirus misinformation with Renée DiResta Where did the conspiracy that “Bill Gates engineered coronavirus” come from? This is the type of query that Renée DiResta investigates as the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, where she tracks the spread of misinformation (and disinformation) online. She’s been monitoring the dissemination of narratives about the emergence of COVID-19, how it’s treated, and how the government has responded, and has an explanation for why there’s so much speculation at every level. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/14171819

AI and the future of work 04/22/2020

AI and the future of work And now for an episode that was recorded pre-COVID-19. Today, David Yakobovitch is joining the show to share his perspectives on AI and the future of work. David hosts the HumAIn Podcast, a show about artificial intelligence, data science, and developer education. He’s also a Principal Data Scientist at Galvanize, a technology learning company that works with startups and large enterprises on deploying data science and AI solutions. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/14085941

Executive decision-making in a global crisis 04/15/2020

Executive decision-making in a global crisis George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift, an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. George has led his company through the first phase of their response to the coronavirus pandemic, which involved creating a program to reduce prices for healthcare workers. The pandemic’s economic impact has also meant that they’ve had to furlough some employees. Today, George is sharing how he’s navigating tough decisions while managing a company during a global crisis. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13991243

COVID-19 and the Great Unpause 04/08/2020

COVID-19 and the Great Unpause Over the past couple weeks on the podcast, we’ve talked about COVID-19’s impact on the future of work and the future of health. Today, we’re delving a little deeper into how we can come back from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Phil is calling “the Great Unpause.” Why are “recession” and “recovery” ill-fitting terms to describe our current situation? What does hitting the pause button mean for different sectors of the economy, and what will it take to reset? /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13890308

COVID-19 and the future of health 04/01/2020

COVID-19 and the future of health The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing the way we think about and manage health. We’d already suspected that the future of work and the future of health were intrinsically linked, but this pandemic has shown how the trajectory of one is fully determining the course of the other. Today on the podcast, we’re discussing a 3-phase framework for thinking through how we’ll make it to the other side of this together. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13766804

COVID-19 and the future of work 03/25/2020

COVID-19 and the future of work COVID-19 has thrown so much into uncertainty, including the way we work. With shelter-in-place regulations falling over increasing swathes of the population, companies who have the capacity to instruct employees to work from home have done so. Due to the global economic downturn that the pandemic has brought forth, it’s safe to say that COVID-19 is having a massive impact on the future of work. Today, we’ll discuss the nuances of that impact. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13671374

The future of healthcare data 03/18/2020

The future of healthcare data A single patient’s healthcare data is likely stored in different silos. It can therefore be difficult to assemble a complete picture of health when old records, more recent information, and regularly updated stats from a smartwatch should all be taken into account. Enter Seqster, a Saas solution for compiling healthcare data and making it easily accessible. Ardy Arianpour, cofounder and CEO of Seqster, joins the podcast today to talk about how his product is shaping the future of health. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13527050

AI or human? 03/04/2020

AI or human? Have you ever had an online conversation with someone only to realize later that you’d been talking to a bot? Computers are reshaping our idea of what it means to be human. Today on the podcast, author Brian Christian explores how computers reveal our most human capabilities and other themes from his book The Most Human Human. He also discusses the book he wrote with Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By, about how computer algorithms can untangle human questions. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13399517

Carrot's Baby Steps 02/19/2020

Carrot's Baby Steps On prior episodes of this podcast, we’ve discussed Carrot, a company that’s pioneering the future of work and health by providing global fertility benefits to employers. Because there’s so much to discuss, we made a whole new podcast for Carrot called Baby Steps. It’s about the many diverse paths people take in the pursuit of parenthood, and we’re playing the first episode of Baby Steps here for you today. If you like what you hear, search for Baby Steps wherever you get your podcasts. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13203728

AI and the future of human computation 02/05/2020

AI and the future of human computation How is the internet making people more or less seen? Researcher Mary Gray’s new book Ghost Work explores the lives of people who are paid to train AI. These workers are contributing to the AI we use every day, but they’re often left out of conversations about how this technology is evolving. Mary asserts that AI is not replacing or eliminating work; it’s dismantling full-time employment. She shares how and why that’s happening in today’s episode. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/13022975

Designing the future of health 01/22/2020

Designing the future of health Designers and medical professionals are both key to building the future of health. Dr. Kyra Bobinet is working within that intersection by using neuroscience to help people design healthy lives. She’s an MD and the CEO of engagedIN, a neuroscience-based design firm. Both design and behavioral change are iterative processes, and Dr. Bobinet has experience applying behavioral strategies as a corporate executive to scale the impact of her programs. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/12838643

Design thinking and the future of work 01/08/2020

Design thinking and the future of work Sita Magnuson has the spirit of an entrepreneur and the heart of an artist. She’s been able to make a career for herself by channeling both of these strengths into cofounding initiatives like Fort Future, Dpict, and Easthampton Co.Lab. Today on the podcast, she shares her thoughts on process design and the creative methods she uses to generate discussion and productivity in a workplace. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/12641456

23andMe and the future of genomic technology 12/18/2019

23andMe and the future of genomic technology What does it mean to democratize DNA? Shirley Wu is answering that question as the Director of Health Product at 23andMe. 23andMe’s mission is to pioneer the future of health with their genetic testing technology, and to help people understand, access, and benefit from the human genome. They’ve had to stay ahead of the quickly evolving pace of the genomics industry, so the story of their work provides valuable lessons for any entrepreneur looking to build a lasting company in a fast-paced world. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/12383729

The future of fertility benefits 12/04/2019

The future of fertility benefits In many ways, the future of fertility is closely tied to the future of work, as companies determine how to best ensure that their employees are holistically supported. Employers have a unique and important role to play when it comes to access to fertility care, especially in the U.S. where 150 million people get their health coverage through employers. Carrot is a fertility benefits company solving the growing problem of access to inclusive fertility care. /episode/index/show/allturtles/id/12268514

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