Summary: This week’s guest Veronica Belmont shares wisdom and tips from more than a decade of podcasting and recounts her journey to product manager of Growbot. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega speak with Belmont about privacy and anonymity, AI and chatbots, communication and diversity, and the importance of authentic company values. They also discuss the many, many reasons to be polite to your voice assistants. Your hosts revisit the role of AI in battling information asymmetry and reveal two AI products they’d like to see made next year. Show notes Information Asymmetry (1:16) Previous discussion of information asymmetry in All Turtles Podcast Episode 3 (27:04)(iTunes) E.F. Hutton: Stock broker with access to exclusive information (YouTube) Phil Libin on historical asymmetries of information (Quora) Interview with Veronica Belmont, product manager of Growbot (6:55) Veronica Belmont Veronica Belmont bio (Wikipedia) Growbot IRL (Podcast) Sword and Laser (Podcast) Tor (The Tor Project) Jad Abumrad (Radiolab) Veronica Belmont’s podcasting protips (19:45) Phil Libin on fart apps and crap bots How to outrun a bear (Backpacker) Listener questions (39:47) Does All Turtles work with teams that are not on the West Coast? (39:59) What AI products would you like to see developed in 2018? (40:55)
