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Gianluca Brugnoli is a designer whose 25-year career has been dedicated to redefining the way we engage with digital products. He has an impressive track record, from co-founding Frog in Milan to leadership positions at McKinsey, Huawei and now at TomTom designing digital cockpits. Gianluca is a walking book when it comes to the value and impact of design at all fronts, joining in for a second episode 3 years after the first one. Your feedback matters - 1min: https://go.ggutt.com/talks Where to find Gianluca LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/in/gianlucabrugnoli Personal website: http://www.brugnoli.net/ X: https://twitter.com/lowresolution gguttalks season 1 with Gianluca Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6s75pTBGUWwEOEjzh1cxFV?si=12bf8a6363c24f21 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/designing-the-not-so-sexy-stuff-ep30-s1-with/id1546998038?i=1000530602038 Maria + GGUTT X: https://go.ggutt.com/x Website: ggutt.com Notion: 🧠The Complete Business Innovation Pack for $1: https://cloud.ggutt.com/your-business GGUTT GPT [WIP] https://go.ggutt.com/gpt LinkedIn: https://go.ggutt.com/linkedin YouTube: http://go.ggutt.com/videos Rumble: https://go.ggutt.com/rumble --- Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 00:48 Guest and podcast intro 2:31 Getting into design 4:04 Falling in love with the ‘new design’ 5:25 The Internet Revolution making waves 6:17 The beginnings with Frog (now Capgemini) 7:49 Pre-iPhone period and the golden era of UX design 10:19 The end of the era of Design Thinking? 13:42 The evolution of design 18:00 Between stabilizing, playing the role of design and everyone being a designer 19:41 Layoffs, starting with X (Twitter), struggles of designers in organizations 20:58 Design maturity in different geographies (retouching on the article about IDEO) 23:50 The automotive sector starting its digitalization process 24:17 Examples from the financial sector: IBAN, power balance, self-services… 26:24 Those who learned, those who haven’t… just yet 28:04 Design faces different challenges to help companies 28:32 Thoughts about Generative AI, design and creativity 33:49 Invitation to use Gen AI regardless of the risks 34:50 Is Gen AI required when hiring? 35:03 Generative AI for drawing 35:47 Consulting v/s Product(s) and his role 39:26 Biggest challenges during different phases 46:23 His work and the double revolution in automotive 47:28 The digital revolution in automotive 49:14 The automotive industry’s own digital transformation 52:25 Prototyping automotive experiences 56:12 A car is a consumer experience 58:33 An industry, a mindset in transition 01:00:00 Risks and failures 01:01:56 Time to design and launch a car 01:02:24 In-car voice interactions and generative AI 01:06:36 AI, machine learning, consumer standards and expectations 01:11:21 Piracy as service problem, experience design 01:13:20 Dreaming, envisioning and designing 01:13:44 Reflection on smart cities and communities, way of life, beyond machines 01:21:55 Thoughts on Elon Musk’s clip about airbags and seatbelts on Joe Rogan’s podcast 01:21:12 Saved by a seatbelt and automotive data-driven future scenarios 01:28:16 TomTom working with startups, Italian car manufacturers 01:29:40 Innovation and mindset in China and Asia v/s Europe 01:36:17 Staying in the loop, wrap-up

Keith Teare has decades of experience as an entrepreneur, with multiple success stories, starting in political activism, then tech. He is the Founder of SignalRank which is a data-only company using AI to transform the venture game, and writes a weekly newsletter ‘That Was the Week’ which is also a show. Your feedback matters - 1min: https://go.ggutt.com/talks Where to find Keith LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kteare/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kteare/ X: https://twitter.com/kteare Youtube (That Was The Week): https://www.youtube.com/@kteare Substack (That Was The Week): https://substack.com/@thatwastheweek Maria + GGUTT X: https://go.ggutt.com/x Website: ggutt.com Notion: 🧠The Complete Business Innovation Pack for $1: https://cloud.ggutt.com/your-business GGUTT GPT [WIP] https://go.ggutt.com/gpt LinkedIn: https://go.ggutt.com/linkedin Youtube: https://go.ggutt.com/youtube Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:29 Escaping irrelevance 6:08 Education system: borderline pass/fail 7:04 Fail…then pass 8:39 Becoming a rebel 9:15 Strength, escape, control 10:30 British Army in Northern Ireland 11:17 Founding and leading the Irish Freedom Movement 11:44 Thinking that politics can change the world 12:06 Learning to code (for political causes) and making an impact 13:19 The scope of his ambition and survival mode 14:12 Making more money than he’s ever seen 14:34 Not liking the 1994 version of himself 15:19 Asking to be fired, starting again and going public 17:33 Writing a book ‘Under siege’ between politics and databases 18:43 Equity, raising capital and missing out on 195 million £ and the move to USA 22:40 Where are things bubbling up 24:11 Mobile, cloud, hardware and now AI and human abilities 30:52 Critical thinking, custom GPTs, tools and software 33:20 Keith’s primary use of ChatGPT at SignalRank 35:58 Keith’s approach to code and de-risking investments 38:32 How the idea behind SignalRank came up 40:15 Lean Startup and short-term thinking 41:54 Asking the right questions to build SignalRank with unbeatable predictions 44:26 Y Combinator v/s SignalRank algorithms 46:32 Turning qualitative data into quantitative data (question at 43:50) 47:06 What we look at to score investors: how good are they? 49:37 From data points to collective scores 50:26 His heuristic is the brain 51:22 Venture Capital is gambling 53:04 SignalRank’s algorithms removing randomness, opportunities and goal 56:47 Venture Capital is changing, Chamath Pallihapitiya’s speech and David Hornick’s response 58:08 SignalRanks is a Digital VC - data only 59:39 Starting to invest solving this access problem 1:00:44 Outside North America and Europe 1:01:34 An era of huge wealth and huge conflict 1:04:24 Where is Keith moving to, political activism and change 1:06:22 A dance between innovation and freedom, producing wealth and distributing wealth 1:08:12 Utopia removes reasons for wars 1:09:59 Silvio Berlusconi v/s Keith Teare 1:10:40 Keith on his GGUTT and solving human puzzles 1:12:05 Liking to talk #keithteare #gguttalks #innovation

Bernard Moon has been at the heart of the startup universe globally. He is the co-founder and partner at SparkLabs Group, a network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds known for energizing startup scenes. He's not just playing the game; he's changing it, with investments in over 500 startups worldwide. He’s an advisor to renowned academic institutions and a seasoned writer for major technology journals. We talk about his journey, the startup world and expansion into multiple geographies, Saudi Arabia being the latest, what investors look for, AI and product. Your feedback matters - 1min: https://go.ggutt.com/talks --- Where to find Bernard: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardmoon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bernardmoon/ X: https://twitter.com/bernardmoon Website: https://bernardmoon.com/ SparkLabs Accelerator in South Korea: sparklabs.co.kr SparkLabs Group: www.sparklabsgroup.com --- 🧠Access the Complete Business Innovation Pack for $1: https://cloud.ggutt.com/your-business Where to find Maria: -Linkedin: https://go.ggutt.com/maria-linkedin -Twitter/X: https://go.ggutt.com/x GGUTT is an innovation, education and design hub helping organizations build better products, ventures and cultures. 👁️ ggutt.com Linkedin: https://go.ggutt.com/linkedin 🎧Apple: https://go.ggutt.com/gguttalks-apple​​ 🎧Spotify: https://go.ggutt.com/gguttalks-spotify​​ --- In this episode with Bernard, we discuss: 00:00 Intro 02:03 Being in the venture space for a decade 02:43 What is SparkLabs Group? 03:34 From public policy to entrepreneurship 05:03 The interconnection between your upbringing and entrepreneurial mindset 08:12 Koreans are creative 08:58 The humble beginnings of SparkLabs 11:59 Challenges of starting-up in South Korea 14:33 Risk-taking and practicalities in global entrepreneurship 16:02 Investing in 500 startups 16:31 Adapting and improving their model across geographies 19:50 Bernard on the expansion model 20:38 A funny story 23:09 The criteria for selecting founders 25:47 Bernard on his GGUTT feeling and assessing people 28:29 Startup application process 29:53 AI application process? 31:00 Networking and relationships 33:29 The right time to start, stop, pivot 36:47 Co-founder, technical co-founder 37:33 Generalist investors globally, industry-specific on the accelerator side 40:00 Bernard’s view on the investment landscape 41:59: It’s not the investor’s fault 42:40 The Future is Data 43:59 How AI is changing the way that we work 45:33 The impact of launching multiple startup hubs and sharing 48:05 Setting up the latest hub in Riyadh and interest from the UAE 51:46 The drive and competitiveness in Saudi Arabia 53:15 What keeps Bernard excited 54:19 Staying up to date 54:14 Are we in an AI bubble?