066: Growing a Culture with Allison Kopf




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/jameybash"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamey Hampton</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/coralineada"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allison Kopf: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/allisonkopf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@allisonkopf</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://www.agrilyst.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agrilyst</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">Support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>01:15</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Allison’s Superpower: Making Unplanned and Hectic Situations Work Out</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ndoherty.com/stockdale-paradox/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Stockdale Paradox</span></a></p> <p><b>06:43 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Getting Into Agriculture</span></p> <p><b>08:54 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Building a Company Culture </span></p> <p><b>13:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Transmitting Culture and Core Values When Hiring New People</span></p> <p><b>20:02 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Disagreeing Respectfully and Maintaining Strong Opinions</span></p> <p><b>25:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Clear Boundaries Between Work and Home Life</span></p> <p><b>32:34 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– What Tech Look Looks Like in the Context of a Working Farm</span></p> <p><b>40:27 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Writing Code for Non-Technical People</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Coraline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Practicing empathy for the user when writing software.</span></p> <p><b>Jamey:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Consciously make space for people who don’t speak as loudly as other people.</span></p> <p><b>Sam:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Learn something new every day.</span></p> <p><b>Allison: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">How different people want to work remotely and how we can create an open way to actually do that.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Transcript:</strong></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>SAM:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>Hello and welcome to Episode 66 of Greater Than Code. I am Sam Livingston-Gray and I’m here to introduce Jamey Hampton.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>JAMEY:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>Thanks, Sam. And I’m happy to introduce Coraline Ada Ehmke. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>CORALINE:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>Hey, everybody. We have a very cool show today. We’re talking to Allison Kopf. Allison is the founder and CEO of Agrilyst, the virtual agronomist powering the horticulture industry. Agrilyst won the highly coveted Disrupt Cup at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. She was named the 2016 Changemaker of the Year by the Association of Vertical Farming and Entrepreneur of the Year by Technical.ly Brooklyn. She studied Physics at Sta. Clara University and once built and 800-square foot solar-powered home for an international competition. In the summer you’ll find her playing third base for about three different co-ed softball teams. She’s pretty focused on getting a dog at some point. </span></p> <p></p>