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We've had interesting conversations about remote-first work with leaders like Jordan Husney, Parabol CEO, and Darren Murph who at the time was the global head of remote work at GitLab (thank you Darren for the intro to Adam). Today's guest has been building a platform to make distributed teams productive since long before it was fashionable. Adam Nathan founded Almanac in January of 2019 to challenge incumbents like Microsoft Office and Google's GSuite. 

Since then, he and the team have enabled organizations like Cisco, Credit Karma, and ByteDance to collaborate in shared workspaces.

Adam has raised more than $40M to date across two rounds from a legendary group of investors that includes Floodgate, Tiger Global, and General Catalyst. Prior to Almanac, Adam did his undergrad at Duke and he received his MBA from Harvard. He's also an active volunteer for The Salvation Army.

Listen and learn...

1. How being a product manager at Apple and Lyft inspired Adam to start a company to avoid wasting time at work
2. What's unique about remote-first work
3. Why remote teams need structure and transparency to be productive
4. How to eliminate time wasted in meetings without losing opportunities to build trusted relationships
5. How to charge for new LLM features in SaaS products
6. Why we tolerate LLM hallucinations
7. Where there's a gap in the market for a better collaboration experience
8. What Adam has learned from his entrepreneurial journey 

References in this episode...

• Jordan Husney from Parabol  on AI and the Future of Work
• Darren Murph from GitLab on AI and the Future of Work
• Why we need to shut down AI development to prevent AGI
• Almanac.io

Episode #249.

About Dara Sklar:

Dara Sklar is a lifelong entrepreneur. No, really - from selling kisses to her parents at six years old, to becoming self-employed at twenty-six - Dara has been through a lot! You may know her as the Google Guru, with over 3500 students in her wildly popular course "Get Productive with G Suite".

And with all that perspective and experience, it's no wonder she loves to help other small business owners get and stay organized so they can run more efficiently, using the Google suite of tools they already know, love, and are (probably already) paying for!

She’s also the friend you call for tech help - excited to jump in and show you time-saving tips and hacks that you'll wish you knew sooner.

When she's not at her computer, you can find her on the squash court, mountain bike trails or ski hill... or sipping a good glass of wine or craft beer!

Connect with Dara Sklar

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook

Favorite Quotes

“There was no way I could have set my business up right the first time. And so I kind of had to roll with the punches. And then sometimes you get busy and things get messy. So my best piece of advice for people in that scenario is to just actually say, okay, who am I today? What are the needs of my business today?”

“One of my favorite things to do is to keep the inbox an action-oriented place. Meaning when there are emails in the inbox, it's because I have to do something with them.”

“We need to keep it a little bit of a sacred space and ask: what's the point of our businesses? Are we here to make money? Are we here to serve the world? We're not necessarily here to consume or to read newsletters or whatever. Those can be secondary activities. And so the action-orientedness comes with anything that moves your business forward or serves the people that you're here to serve.”

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Common mistakes when using Google
• The beauty of data and storage
• How to get rid of the visual clutter in your digital workspace
• Using your Gmail inbox as a task for project management
• Taking ownership of your inbox through labels and archiving
• Having an overall business philosophy of what data and systems you need to take away, retain and absorb

Mentioned on the Show:

• Top 40 Google Hacks You'll Wish You'd Been Using All Along

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Alison Wagonfeld might have gotten her start in marketing thanks to the promise of a turkey sandwich, but she found success thanks to a drive and intellect that separated her from others. Today, Alison is the Vice President of Marketing for Google Cloud and the work she and Google are doing has an impact across the industry. On this episode of Marketing Trends, Alison talks about how she looks at hard problems, what kind of marketing strategy she’s focusing on at Google Cloud, and why she believes the partnership between the CMO and CIO is critical to achieving business success.

3 Takeaways:

• Focus on customer personas and figure out how to communicate to the ones you need

• The partnership between the CMO and CIO is critical

• Know what problem your solving and who to ask to help you solve it

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Katherine Goyette has been an educator in California’s Central Valley for over fifteen years. She inspires educators across the globe via speaking engagements, consulting services, and content creation. Katherine serves as the Educational Technology & Integrated Studies Consultant for Tulare County Office of Education. She engages teachers, coaches, and administrators in active professional learning grounded in solid pedagogy regarding topics including technology integration in the classroom, project-based learning, interdisciplinary learning, computer science integration and professional learning communities.

Learn more about Katherine at her website.

Tanya served as the lead educational technology and digital citizenship teacher at the Lester B. Pearson School Board overseeing and implementing several 1:1 initiatives with iPads, Chromebooks, BYOD and Macbooks. Tanya was instrumental in the vision and execution of the district-wide Digital Citizenship Program which resulted in her being invited to Facebook headquarters to discuss Digital Citizenship education.

Tanya has presented to teachers, administrators and fellow educational technology coaches at numerous national and international conferences including, ISTE, ASCD, and FETC. As a consultant visits schools/districts across the country to work with PreK-12 school leaders, to help plan large-scale implementation plans as well as workshops on how to use technology as a tool for learning. Along with consulting, Tanya works as a full-time teacher at North Preparatory School teaching Personal Branding and Digital Communication in Coconut Creek, Florida.

In addition to being named an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2013 and a Google Certified Innovator in 2012, Tanya is an Adobe Education Leader, Book Creator Ambassador and Flipgrid Ambassador.

Tanya holds a M.A. in Educational Technology and a B.A in Communication Studies from Concordia University in Montreal as well as a B.Ed from the University of Ottawa.

Tanya is driven to help inspire educators push their thinking and always put learning first when it comes to use technology.

You can find out more about working with Tanya, and her books and resources.