226- R.C. Johnson: Incubate a Multitude of Ideas for Maximum Business Impact

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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R.C. Johnson R.C. Johnson is an accomplished engineering leader skilled at rapidly building and scaling innovative products that drive business success. At Indeed, he created an internal “venture capital” model that resulted in over 60 concurrent innovative projects and 9-figure revenue wins. R.C. excels at aligning engineering with business goals, launching products users value, and coaching teams to high performance. With his blend of startup agility and success leading large engineering orgs, he is talented at guiding engineering teams to deliver innovative products that provide real business impact. R.C. Johnson: How to Incubate a Multitude of Ideas for Maximum Business Impact In this episode, host Phil Howard interviews R.C. Johnson, former head of engineering innovation at Indeed, about how they built an internal “venture capital” model to rapidly test innovative ideas. R.C. explains strategies including cross-functional teams, ruthless prioritization, and focusing on customer value that enabled Indeed to incubate and scale multiple innovations efficiently. Tune in and learn how to embrace innovation like a startup while leveraging assets of an established business.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today.
0:12.9	We're talking with R.C. Johnson coming live out of an undisclosed location surrounded
0:18.9	by plywood that has been, that has been recently constructed for this
0:23.7	very for this very purpose which is to um record this secret show welcome to the show and just
0:32.0	why don't you just take a second tell me a what your first computer was and how you got started into this whole, this,
0:39.1	insanity. And, I mean, I don't usually talk with developers that much because they're usually
0:46.1	hiding in a closet somewhere with all the lights turned off and sunglasses on. But I'll let you,
0:52.5	I'll let you take this away. Give me a little bit of a, give me a little
0:55.3	bit of a background in what your first computer was and how you got started in this. Yeah. Well,
1:00.3	thanks first of all for having me. It's, it's a pleasure to be on the show with you. And yeah,
1:05.1	no, definitely, you know, definitely don't quite fit the developer stereotype, but have have been
1:10.5	one in the past, kind of, I guess, a recovering developer, if you will.
1:15.5	You know, my first, my first computer was actually a trash 80, TRS 80. It was a hand me down from my grandfather who was into computers and, and, uh, upgraded to,
1:27.7	to something else.
1:28.4	I don't actually know what he upgraded to,
1:29.7	but handed me,
1:30.9	uh,
1:31.1	and my,
1:31.6	my,
1:31.6	my cousin,
1:32.0	each of us got TRS 80s and no,
1:35.6	you know,
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