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7- Steve Vassallo @Foundation Capital: Empathy is killing your product

2018/4/3
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Steve Vassallo) is a general partner at Foundation Capital) (VC firm that invested in Pocket, Netflix, Uber etc.). Prior to that, he worked as a lead designer at IDEO where he worked on a famous Cisco's 7900 series VoIP phone. He recently published a book "The Way to Design", which helps designers become entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs adopt best design practices. You can read the book) for free online.

In the episode we talked about:

  • why will the 21st century be the decade of design,
  • why empathy has become a buzzword and what empathy really is,
  • common struggles of designers who want to become entrepreneurs.