The Design VC
Andy BuddThe Design VC is a podcast about the intersection of creativity and capital — and how design can help early-stage startups turn vision into traction.
Each week, I talk with founders, investors, and founding designers about the decisions that shape the hunt for product–market fit: when to bring design in, what to look for in a great founding designer, and how design helps you earn traction (not ju... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | a month ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BusinessEntrepreneurshipTechnology | |||
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Most weeks, as a VC, I’m talking to founders who want to build huge, global, venture-scale companies. So this conversation with Jessica Hische was a breath of fresh air.
Jessica is one of the most recognised names in modern graphic design, illustrat... more
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd talks with Ben Blumenrose, co-founder and managing partner of Designer Fund, about what it really looks like when design becomes the organising principle, not the garnish.
Ben takes us back to the early Fa... more
In this week’s episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Sam Stevenson, designer-turned co-founder of Granola, “the AI notepad built for people in back-to-back meetings.”
Granola didn’t launch into an empty market. It launched into a red oc... more
A lot of early-stage problems don’t look like “design problems” at first. They look like confusion. Misalignment. A story that isn’t landing. A team shipping hard but not getting traction.
In this episode I’m joined by Kate Aronowitz, a design and p... more
Most startups don’t fail because the team can’t build. They fail because they can’t decide what to build, and they waste months proving it the slow way.
In this episode I’m joined by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, best known for popularising and codi... more
Intercom didn’t start as Intercom. In this first episode of The Design VC, Des Traynor takes us back to the scrappy days of running a design consultancy with a side project, and the moment a tiny in-app message, a speech bubble popping out of a star ... more
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Apple Podcasts | #74 |  Brazil/Business/Entrepreneurship |
Apple Podcasts | #91 |  Spain/Business/Entrepreneurship |
Apple Podcasts | #198 |  Ireland/Business/Entrepreneurship |
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