Getting2Alpha
Wanna innovate faster and smarter? Getting2Alpha pulls back the curtain on how breakthrough innovators bring their ideas to life - and delivers actionable tips to help you bring innovative ideas to life. You’ll meet luminaries who've created genre-defining hits - and rising stars who are shaping the future. Listen in and get inspired to innovate smarter and increase your odds of success.
Episodes
99 episodes
Jason Hreha: What Really Matters with Habit-building
Jason Hreha is a leading expert in behavioral science & a serial entrepreneur who has helped shape the way we understand habit-building and human behavior.Join us as we catch up with Jason on what really matters when it comes to bui...
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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38:05
Andy Budd: The Growth Equation
Andy Budd is a designer, entrepreneur, and investor making waves with his new book, The Growth Equation. With a background in UX design, web standards, and startup advising, Andy now helps founders navigate the complex world of venture...
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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33:08
Nana Janashia: The Power of Focus
Nana Janashia is a pioneering force in DevOps education and founder of TechWorld with Nana, a seven-figure training powerhouse that's transformed how people learn DevOps engineering.Listen as we explore Nana's remarkable path from teach...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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48:28
Mark Jacobstein: From Game Exec to Venture Builder
Mark Jacobstein is a renowned figure in the gaming and tech universe, with three decades of experience building and leading companies at the forefront of new technologies.Having transitioned from a successful career as a Game Executive ...
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Season 10
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Episode 7
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41:35
Ryan Douglas: FDA approves Digital Therapeutics SDK
Ryan Douglas is the co-founder of DeepWell DTx, a digital therapeutics venture lab dedicated to creating immersive experiences that address mental health challenges.Recently, DeepWell DTx achieved a major milestone: the U.S. Food and Dr...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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30:02
Gina Pell: Community is the new social
Gina Pell, a digital media pioneer, runs an exclusive Facebook group with 27K members and a private professional women's network featuring world-class leaders, from early-stage entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 executives.Gina has built comp...
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Season 10
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Episode 5
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27:31
Julie Dirksen: Design for Behavior Change
Julie Dirksen is an author and learning strategy consultant, renowned for her expertise in creating impactful learning solutions. She wrote the bestselling book Design For How People Learn, and her latest release, Talk to the Elephant: Design L...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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42:26
Mike Maples: Pattern Breakers
Mike Maples is a pioneering Silicon Valley investor who founded Floodgate Ventures in 2005, introducing the concept of seed investing. He achieved major successes with early investments in Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft.His curiosity about w...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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1:00:34
Jillian Ahrens: Designing Digital Therapeutics
Jillian Ahrens is the CPO at Realized Care, a digital therapeutics company specializing in VR solutions. She was formerly Associate Director of Product R&D at Pear Therapeutics, where she led a project developing a CBT-based AI chatbot....
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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25:41
Ryan Douglas: Immersive Digital Therapeutics
Ryan Douglas is the co-founder of DeepWell DTx, a digital therapeutics Venture Lab focused on creating immersive experiences that address mental health concerns.Ryan has created numerous medical devices, along with several profitable st...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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1:06:11
Starr Long: Creating Ultima Online
Long before World of Warcraft, there was Ultima Online, the first MMO. How did this highly innovative & influential game come to be? And what can we learn from its successes and failures? Starr Long is a game designer and produ...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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58:30
Samuel Hulick: User Onboarding
Samuel Hulick, a renowned UX consultant and leading authority in user onboarding, operates the well-known website useronboard.com. Through this platform, he expertly deconstructs the initial experiences of popular apps and services, showcasing ...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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38:14
Jason Hreha: Building Habit-Forming Products
Jason Hreha is a behavioral scientist, formerly Global Head of Behavioral Sciences at Walmart, who uses his knowledge of human behavior to build better products. With a decade of applying behavioral science to tech challenges, he co-founded Wal...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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25:02
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Alfie Kohn: Thriving Beyond Competition
Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in education, parenting, and human behavior. The author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles, he is a proponent of progressive education and a strong critic of competition and rewards. Kohn ha...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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29:41
Adrian Hon: Making Zombies, Run!
Adrian Hon is an English writer and game designer, known for his expertise in alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling. As the CEO of Six to Start, he created the bestselling fitness game "Zombies, Run!" and authored books like "You'...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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43:55
Robin Allenson: Creating AI-powered Tools
Robin Allenson is a serial entrepreneur who studied AI at University of Edinburgh in the early 90s, and went on to found a series of AI-powered ventures. His current venture Similar.ai uses AI to automate the im...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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35:34
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Doug Hofstadter: Reflections on AI
Douglas Hofstadter is a professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington. His research into cognitive science includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, conscious...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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40:01
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Dr. Julie Gurner: Unlocking Peak Performance
Dr. Julie Gurner is an executive performance coach with a Doctorate in Psychology. She has coached top-percentile executives, talent, and teams operating in fast-paced, competitive environments for over ten years, helping her clients unlock pea...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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48:28
Joakim Achrén: Investing in Games
Joakim Achrén, “the gaming startup guy”, is a games investor, and founder of Elite Game Developers, which provides advice for game founders. He co-founded Next Games (which was acquired by Netflix), and worked as Director of Analytics at Superc...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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40:45
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Pavel Samsonov: Storyboarding for UX
Pavel Samsonov is a design architect and UX Practice Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in New York City. With a background in graphic design and a passion for human-computer interaction, Pavel has spent the last three years at AWS helping...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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42:04
Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly is a writer, futurist, and Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His books include The Inevitable, about future trends, and What Technology Want...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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31:54
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Celia Hodent: The Gamer’s Brain
Celia Hodent, a Game UX Strategist with a PhD in Psychology, has dedicated 15 years of her career to applying user experience (UX) and cognitive science in product development, particularly in the realm of video games. Her impressive portfolio ...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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36:40
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Vinayak Joglekar: Game Thinking in India
Vinayak Joglekar is head of India Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Excellarate, with more than three decades of professional software development and delivery experience. Joglekar earn...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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46:56
Osama Dorias: Reviewing the Top 10 Games of 2022
Osama Dorias is a Lead Content Designer at Blizzard Entertainment. In the past, he’s worked at Unity, Warner Brothers, Gameloft, GEE Media, Ubisoft, and Minority Media. He also teaches game design at Dawson College and loves to empower people i...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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55:35
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