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In the final episode of "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech," we explore how we can build a more inclusive future in tech, featuring the voices of those who have worked to improve equity in Silicon Valley for years.

Listen and join the conversation: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/series/culture-fit/the-work-ahead

Culture Fit | 6. The Work Ahead Culture Fit | Episode 6 – "The Work Ahead"

In episode 5 of "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech," we’re turning the mirror on ourselves to assess diversity & inclusion at All Turtles.

If we believe every company could benefit from open conversations about diversity, we need to start with ourselves.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/series/culture-fit/internal-investigation

Culture Fit | 5. Internal Investigation Culture Fit | Episode 5 – "Internal Investigation"

Racial bias has worked its way into the products the tech industry builds. What we can do to mitigate the harm these biases cause? As Kim Crayton says in episode 4 of Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech, "We need to understand that tech is not neutral."

Listen and subscribe here: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/series/culture-fit/built-in-bias

Culture Fit | 4. Built-in Bias Culture Fit | Episode 4 – "Built-in Bias"

A common excuse tech companies will make for their lack of diversity is to blame the "pipeline," saying there aren’t enough qualified candidates from historically excluded groups in the talent pool.

Why do tech companies lean on this problematic argument? What are they missing?

Dairien Boyd and his guests dig into these questions on episode 3 of our new podcast series "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech."
https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/series/culture-fit/the-pipeline-fallacy

Culture Fit | 3. The Pipeline Fallacy Culture Fit | Episode 3 – "The Pipeline Fallacy"

Today we're proud to launch a new All Turtles Podcast series: "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech." It's an in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry hosted by Dairien Boyd, featuring interviews with 30 incredible guests. Episodes 1 and 2 are out now, with the rest coming out this week.

In ep. 1, people who have long been excluded by Silicon Valley’s monoculture share personal stories & walk through the data on tech's lack of diversity. When it comes to cognitive biases, what critical errors do our brains make without even realizing it?

For ep. 2, we hop into the way, way back machine. We examine the history of Silicon Valley to better understand how we got to the current moment of racial inequity in tech.

Listen and subscribe here: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/series/culture-fit/monoculture

Culture Fit | 1. Monoculture Culture Fit | Episode 1 – "Monoculture"

What will the future of algorithmic decision-making look like? Bestselling author Brian Christian joins the podcast today to discuss this question & other themes from his new book, The Alignment Problem.

Bonus: lessons to be learned from a near missile strike.
https://medium.all-turtles.com/when-ai-is-misaligned-all-turtles-podcast-ep-89-dc213c43b70e

When AI is misaligned: : All Turtles Podcast Ep. 89 Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By. His latest book is called The Alignment…

How is digital media impacting our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection? Today, author Maryanne Wolf joins the podcast to share practical advice for fostering critical thinking while immersed in the digital world.

https://medium.all-turtles.com/the-future-of-the-reading-brain-all-turtles-podcast-ep-88-cdcbf3350bcd

The future of the reading brain: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 88 How is digital media impacting our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection? This is an important question to consider…

We believe that products are not neutral.

All Turtles products like Mmhmm & Spot were built with a specific point of view. In this ep, these products' CEOs (Phil Libin & Jessica Collier) share what this means for things like like community & privacy.

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For startups, securing funding can be a long road, and the pandemic has made that road pretty bumpy.

Even so, Tellus found success in recent months, and today on the podcast their CEO Tania A. Coke is imparting key lessons from their remote fundraising process.

Listen here: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/

Designing Mmhmm's brand required dynamic imagery for features like Rooms & Copilot while staying true to a singular look and feel. On today's podcast, Principal Designer Allie Packard shares how she & her team went from early sketches to the product we see today.
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The All Turtles Podcast is back from our summer hiatus, and we're formally introducing you to our newest product: mmhmm.

How did we build mmhmm in a matter of months during a pandemic? What do we expect for mmhmm's future? And what's up with the name?

Listen here: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast

When you ask Amazon Alexa to complete a task, that voice interaction is possible due to the work of people like Noelle Silver, who wrote some of Alexa’s earliest skills.

Noelle is now the VP of Digital Technology at NPR, where she's hoping to use AI to help make journalists’ jobs easier.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/conversational-ai-with-noelle-silver-all-turtles-podcast-ep-83/

Conversational AI with Noelle Silver: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 83 When you ask Amazon’s Alexa to complete a task, that voice interaction is possible because of the work of people like Noelle Silver. She wrote some of Alexa’s earliest skills, and as her career took her from Amazon to Microsoft, she saw an opportunity to launch the AI Leadership Institute. On to...

We made our podcast art in Figma, so it's only fitting that we have their Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto on the show. He's here to explain how Figma's tools enable designers & product creators to collaborate seamlessly—even when working remotely.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/figma-and-the-future-of-collaborative-design-all-turtles-podcast-ep-82/

Figma and the future of collaborative design: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 82 Product design is collaborative, but with extended shelter-in-place guidelines, teams have had to reassess what it means to work together. Figma is one of the best tools for product creators working remotely, but even before we were relegated to our homes, Figma had become essential to us at All Tur...

Scoodle, a UK-based learning platform that connects students with tutors, is ensuring students can still get the support they need even when campuses are closed.

On today’s episode of the All Turtles Podcast, Scoodle’s cofounder and CEO Ismail Jeilani is sharing why he wants to help teachers achieve rock-star status for the work they do. https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-future-of-remote-learning-all-turtles-podcast-ep-81/

The future of remote learning: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 81 With campuses closed and classes relegated to Zoom sessions, COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. Scoodle, a UK-based learning platform that connects students with tutors, is ensuring students can still get the support they need. On today’s episode, Scoodle’s cofounder and CEO Isma...

What do you do when a pandemic wipes out your business model as an early-stage startup?

On today's All Turtles Podcast episode, hear how Lanterne AI quickly pivoted to build Crowdless, an app that gives info on the crowdedness of supermarkets to help with social distancing.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/how-a-social-distancing-app-came-to-be-all-turtles-podcast-ep-80/

How a social distancing app came to be: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 80 What do you do when a global pandemic wipes out your business model as an early-stage startup? If you’re Sebastian Müller, cofounder of Lanterne, you quickly pivot to create a product to help people stay safe as coronavirus spreads. That’s how he and his team began building Crowdless, an app th...

Where did the conspiracy that Bill Gates engineered coronavirus come from? Renee DiResta tracks the spread of misinformation (and disinformation) online, and she has an explanation for why there's been so much speculation about the origin & treatment of COVID-19:

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/coronavirus-misinformation-with-renee-diresta-all-turtles-podcast-ep-79/

Coronavirus misinformation with Renée DiResta: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 79 Where did the conspiracy that “Bill Gates engineered coronavirus” come from? This is the type of query that Renée DiResta investigates as the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, where she tracks the spread of misinformation (and disinformation) online. She’s been moni...

The host of the HumAIn Podcast, David Yakobovitch, took a break from his own show for a day to lend his wisdom to our listeners. He's sharing his insights with us about AI and the future of work.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/ai-and-the-future-of-work-all-turtles-podcast-ep-78/

AI and the future of work: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 78 And now for an episode that was recorded pre-COVID-19. Today, David Yakobovitch is joining the show to share his perspectives on AI and the future of work. David hosts the HumAIn Podcast, a show about artificial intelligence, data science, and developer education. He’s also a Principal Data Scient...

George Arison, the founder and CEO of Shift, has had to make tough decisions to help his company weather the economic impact of pandemic, including furloughing some employees. Today, George shares how he’s managing a company during a global crisis: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/executive-decision-making-in-a-global-crisis-all-turtles-podcast-ep-77/

Executive decision-making in a global crisis: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 77 George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift, an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. George has led his company through the first phase of their response to the coronavirus pandemic, which involved creating a program to reduce prices for healthcare workers. The pandemic’s economi...

As we look ahead, how can we anticipate coming back from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic? This is something Phil Libin is calling "the Great Unpause," and we're discussing it on today's episode of the All Turtles Podcast. Listen here:

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/covid-19-and-the-great-unpause-all-turtles-podcast-ep-76/

COVID-19 and the Great Unpause: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 76 Over the past couple weeks on the podcast, we’ve talked about COVID-19’s impact on the future of work and the future of health. Today, we’re delving a little deeper into how we can come back from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Phil is calling “the great unpause.” Why a...

The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing the way we think about & manage health. Today on the podcast, we’re discussing a 3-phase framework for thinking through how we’ll make it to the other side of this together.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/covid-19-and-the-future-of-health-all-turtles-podcast-ep-75/

COVID-19 and the future of health: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 75 The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing the way we think about and manage health. We’d already suspected that the future of work and the future of health were intrinsically linked, but this pandemic has shown how the trajectory of one is fully determining the course of the other. Today on ...

COVID-19 has thrown so much into uncertainty, including the way we work. On today's All Turtles Podcast episode, Phil Libin & Jon Cifuentes recorded (from their new at-home studios) a discussion about the coronavirus' impact on the future of work.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/covid-19-and-the-future-of-work-all-turtles-podcast-ep-74/

COVID-19 and the future of work: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 74 COVID-19 has thrown so much into uncertainty, including the way we work. With shelter-in-place regulations falling over increasing swathes of the population, companies who have the capacity to instruct employees to work from home have done so. Due to the global economic downturn that the pandemic ha...

A patient's medical history is often stored in multiple silos, and that information can be difficult to assemble. Enter Seqster, a SaaS solution to this problem. Their CEO Ardy Arianpour joins the podcast today to share how they're shaping the future of health.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-future-of-healthcare-data-all-turtles-podcast-ep-73/

The future of healthcare data: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 73 A single patient’s healthcare data is likely stored in different silos. It can therefore be difficult to assemble a complete picture of health when old records, more recent information, and regularly updated stats from a smartwatch should all be taken into account. Enter Seqster, a Saas solution f...

AI is reshaping our idea of what it means to be human. Today on the podcast, author Brian Christian explores how computers reveal our most human capabilities, as well as other themes from his books The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/ai-or-human-all-turtles-podcast-ep-72/

AI or human? All Turtles Podcast Ep. 72 Have you ever had an online conversation with someone only to realize later that you’d been talking to a bot? Computers are reshaping our idea of what it means to be human. Today on the podcast, author Brian Christian explores how computers reveal our most human capabilities and other themes from ...

Today's episode of the All Turtles Podcast is a little different. We're featuring the first full episode of Baby Steps, a new podcast from Carrot, a company that's pioneering the future of work and the future of health by providing global fertility benefits to employers.

The new Baby Steps podcast explores diverse stories about pursuing parenthood.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/carrots-baby-steps-all-turtles-podcast-ep-71/

Carrot’s Baby Steps: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 71

Who trains AI? Mary Gray highlights the workers who contribute to the AI we use every day in her new book Ghost Work. On today's episode of the All Turtles Podcast, Mary shares the consequences of leaving these workers out of conversations about this technology's evolution:

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/ai-and-the-future-of-human-computation/

AI and the future of human computation: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 70

Designers & medical professionals are both key to building the future of health. Dr. Kyra Bobinet is working within that intersection by helping people design healthy lives, and she's sharing her approach today on the All Turtles Podcast.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/design-thinking-and-the-future-of-work-all-turtles-podcast-ep-68/

Design thinking and the future of work: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 68

With the spirit of an entrepreneur and the heart of an artist, Sita Magnuson cofounded Fort Future, Dpict, and Easthampton Co.Lab. Today on the podcast, she shares her thoughts on process design & and creative methods for generating workplace discussion:

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/design-thinking-and-the-future-of-work-all-turtles-podcast-ep-68/

Design thinking and the future of work: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 68

What does it mean to democratize DNA? Shirley Wu is pursuing answers to this question at 23andMe.

Today on the All Turtles Podcast, Shirley dissects how 23andMe is pioneering the future of health by helping people understand, access, & benefit from the human genome.

https://soundcloud.com/allturtlespodcast/23andme-and-the-future-of-genomic-technology

23andMe and the future of genomic technology What does it mean to democratize DNA? Shirley Wu is answering that question as the Director of Health Product at 23andMe. 23andMe’s mission is to pioneer the future of health with their genetic testin

How is the future of fertility tied to the future of work?

Tammy Sun joins the podcast to talk about employers' important role in fertility care, especially in the U.S. where 150 million people get their health coverage through work.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-future-of-fertility-benefits-all-turtles-podcast-ep-66/

The future of fertility benefits: All Turtles Podcast Ep. 66

Sift is a news therapy app that unpacks contentious issues to help you feel equipped to face the headlines.

Today, we’re giving you an audio taste of Sift on our podcast with an episode that will walk you through the impact climate change is having on our mental health.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-all-turtles-podcast-episode-66-sift-climate-change-and-mental-health/

The Partnership on AI formed a consortium to establish best practices for AI systems & educate the public about AI. Their Executive Director Terah Lyons joins the podcast today to share how they've been exploring AI's impact on the world: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-all-turtles-podcast-episode-65-building-best-practices-for-ai-systems-with-terah-lyons/

All Turtles Podcast Ep 65: Building best practices for AI systems with Terah Lyons

We interrupt our normal programming for some brief podcast announcements: We’re transitioning from weekly to bi-weekly episodes to give us more time for new projects.

Stay tuned—we have some incredible guests on our upcoming episodes.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-all-turtles-podcast-episode-64-announcements-announcements/

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Today on the podcast, we're featuring Spot, a product that uses AI to tackle harassment & discrimination in the workplace.

Learn how their team designed, built and launched their new harassment training feature, and hear their visions for the :
https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-all-turtles-podcast-episode-63-the-future-of-workplace-harassment-training/

The All Turtles Podcast Episode 63: The future of workplace harassment training

Today on the podcast, Dr. Arun Wiita explains how his UCSF lab is using emerging technology to discover new treatments for blood cancers. He shares his insights on the future of cancer research, including why the next big advancement will involve modifying DNA.

https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-all-turtles-podcast-episode-62-the-future-of-cancer-research-with-dr-arun-wiita/

The All Turtles Podcast Episode 62: The future of cancer research with Dr. Arun Wiita

Unreasonable Group’s mission is to tackle seemingly intractable problems with emerging technology. They work with entrepreneurs building innovative solutions with tech like AI. Today on the podcast, Dave Smith is here to talk about how they approach some of the world's biggest challenges: https://www.all-turtles.com/podcast/the-all-turtles-podcast-episode-61-tech-solutions-to-intractable-problems-with-unreasonable-group/