You may not be familiar with Bending Spoons, but I guarantee you’ve encountered some of their well-known products, like Evernote and Meetup. In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, we sit down with three key figures from the Italy-based startup
Audio recording quality was a bit flaky in places. I don't know if one of the speaker kept moving away from the mic, but it caused the sound to fade in and out. Listening on the Apple Podcast app. Example @ 45:43.
Asides that issue, was an interesting group of individuals to interview.
One reason they can operate this way is because they are privately owned AND have a long-term view.
The vast majority of organization leaders are incentivized for short-term gains: public company execs with their stock-based comps, PE firms and VCs with their 3-5 year investment horizons, VC funded startups, etc. Even if they wanted to optimize on long-term gains, they will be measured against short-term focused competitors.
It’s extremely hard to resist this pressure when you take any funding.
Is it possible to also publish podcast transcripts? I find it so much easier to skim through the transcript rather than listen to the whole podcast, it would be great if there was an AI generated transcript included
Preeti: every single episode has human transcribed transcripts: just tap the "Transcripts" button at the top! They are on the top of every podcast episode. Perhaps it blends in a bit much? (I put a bunch of effort into each transcript!)
Ah I found it, I am not sure why I did not notice it at all. Maybe it can be linked to again below the show notes? I know a lot of podcasts do that, so maybe I am now trained to look for it there. Thank you for your quick response :)
There is a similar company (at least from what it looks like from the outside) called Tiny: https://www.tiny.com/. They bought websites like Dribbble and Letterboxd, and own many more businesses.
last time I checked their balance sheet (registroimprese.it) they did have very significant debt and over the past 2 years they made 0 profits. Let's say the narrative here is optimistic ?
Yes - sorry about the typos. I'll be more thourough next time with the takeaways. I took the unedited version: it's on me! Will aim to avoid in the future.
I work with an actual editor who proofreads everything twice and catched 99.9% of things. In this case, I copied and pasted from an early draft, and not the edited version! I was so focused on the video and audio that I missed the text.
(I stopped using AI editing [basically, Grammarly] after it started to suggest edits that make things sound very generic and bland, and not necessarily my voice!)
Audio recording quality was a bit flaky in places. I don't know if one of the speaker kept moving away from the mic, but it caused the sound to fade in and out. Listening on the Apple Podcast app. Example @ 45:43.
Asides that issue, was an interesting group of individuals to interview.
Great interview, Gergely.
One reason they can operate this way is because they are privately owned AND have a long-term view.
The vast majority of organization leaders are incentivized for short-term gains: public company execs with their stock-based comps, PE firms and VCs with their 3-5 year investment horizons, VC funded startups, etc. Even if they wanted to optimize on long-term gains, they will be measured against short-term focused competitors.
It’s extremely hard to resist this pressure when you take any funding.
Very informative, thank you!!
Really interesting. I wish they could have unpacked the lack of on-call.
Is it possible to also publish podcast transcripts? I find it so much easier to skim through the transcript rather than listen to the whole podcast, it would be great if there was an AI generated transcript included
Preeti: every single episode has human transcribed transcripts: just tap the "Transcripts" button at the top! They are on the top of every podcast episode. Perhaps it blends in a bit much? (I put a bunch of effort into each transcript!)
Ah I found it, I am not sure why I did not notice it at all. Maybe it can be linked to again below the show notes? I know a lot of podcasts do that, so maybe I am now trained to look for it there. Thank you for your quick response :)
There is a similar company (at least from what it looks like from the outside) called Tiny: https://www.tiny.com/. They bought websites like Dribbble and Letterboxd, and own many more businesses.
last time I checked their balance sheet (registroimprese.it) they did have very significant debt and over the past 2 years they made 0 profits. Let's say the narrative here is optimistic ?
I think you forgot to proof read this post, it has a number of typos and a TODO left in…
Yes - sorry about the typos. I'll be more thourough next time with the takeaways. I took the unedited version: it's on me! Will aim to avoid in the future.
Could run it by AI as part of your process for very quick proof reading and automatic TODO capture, it's low effort but great at catching these things
I work with an actual editor who proofreads everything twice and catched 99.9% of things. In this case, I copied and pasted from an early draft, and not the edited version! I was so focused on the video and audio that I missed the text.
(I stopped using AI editing [basically, Grammarly] after it started to suggest edits that make things sound very generic and bland, and not necessarily my voice!)