Getting2Alpha

Amy Jo Kim

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.

  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    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 startups. He has deep experience with the regulatory landscape for digital therapeutics, and is pushing to get digital therapeutics accepted by the medical community.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/xuXe-HtmBMk

    13 March 2024, 11:00 pm
  • 58 minutes 30 seconds
    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 producer who directed the team that built Ultima Online, the first popular Massively Multiplayer Online game. In this in-depth interview, you'll learn how a theater major became a game designer, how Ultima IV blew player's minds, and the shocking things players did early the development of Ultima Online.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/nzlNq_yiO2Y

    10 November 2023, 6:00 pm
  • 38 minutes 14 seconds
    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 his insights into effective user onboarding processes.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/YFFw5u_Aq-s

    14 September 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 25 minutes 2 seconds
    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 Walmart's Behavioral Science Team and pioneered Behavioral Strategy as an interdisciplinary approach. He studied human biology and neuroscience at Stanford University, and is currently co-founder and CEO of Persona, the Startup Assistant company.

    31 August 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 29 minutes 41 seconds
    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 has been described by Time magazine as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.”

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/Jqcw_0v8ooE

    24 August 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 43 minutes 55 seconds
    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've Been Played" (2022) and "A History of the Future in 100 Objects" (2020). He studied neuroscience at Cambridge, UCSD, and Oxford, and has spoken at TED, Long Now Foundation, GoogleX, and Disney Imagineering.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/n8Nm7YEwfCI

    4 August 2023, 5:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 34 seconds
    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 important and often laborious process of optimizing web sites for SEO. 

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/H6P746iG2VM

    13 July 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 40 minutes 1 second
    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, consciousness, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. His AI interests explore the subtlest and most slippery aspects of human intelligence, as embodied in deceptively deep analogy problems like ABC is to ABD as XYZ is to what?

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/R6e08RnJyxo

    29 June 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 48 minutes 28 seconds
    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 peak performance. She publishes the Ultra Successful newsletter on Substack.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/YGFEerM6lwM

    1 June 2023, 3:00 pm
  • 40 minutes 45 seconds
    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 Supercell.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/VEd3uedgY7g

    23 May 2023, 8:00 pm
  • 42 minutes 4 seconds
    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 large companies adopt cloud computing and build innovative products using design methods. His professional accomplishments include being named a top UX designer by prominent industry publications, and his work has been featured in major design exhibitions and conferences worldwide. In addition to his work at AWS, Pavel is also a contributor to UX Collective, a prominent online publication in the design community.

    Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/XmCY_oSmL4U

    11 May 2023, 2:00 pm
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