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Underserved

Ep. 070, People First

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Why does John Blythe, our guest for Episode #070, believe in people first at technology companies? It could be his experience building teams, or influencing surgeons to help lower their delivery costs one hip at a time. We discuss making passion learning a business, what it means to be the Director of GIFs and comedic timing, and getting 10x throughput at 10% of the cost.
140db.com - built john mayer's website that inspired John
bit.cloud - for versioned component development

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to episode 70 of Underserved.

0:03.4

Today with me in studio is John Blythe, VP of Engineering

0:07.6

at Combined Curiosity.

0:09.2

Let's get started.

0:11.2

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved,

0:15.3

the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

0:18.6

Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,

0:21.7

their insights, and their lessons learned.

0:24.7

And now your host, Andrew Jalina.

0:31.0

John, thank you so much for joining us here on Underserved.

0:35.6

Thanks for having me.

0:36.6

It's time to be here.

0:37.4

All the way from Indianapolis, we really appreciate you coming out.

0:40.5

Love it.

0:41.0

I'm so happy to be back in Boston.

0:42.6

Excellent.

0:43.3

So when you were young, what was the initial spark

0:46.5

that got you interested in tech?

0:48.0

Love it goes back to the seeds that Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose

0:53.6

got me interested in just some of the hackery type stuff

0:56.5

that was going on that they would talk about.

0:58.4

I had a few friends who were a little bit more computer nerdy

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