Jonas Rinde - Making Technology Disappear

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03/06/23 • 70 min

Jonas Rinde delves into designing tech that doesn’t feel technical, the challenge of product-market fit, and his relationship with risk and adventure.

Highlights include:

How do you mitigate the risks of growing a startup?
What can go wrong when you build a prototype too fast?
How do you know what to pay attention to?
Why do you want to make the technology disappear?
Who gets to decide what makes it onto the product roadmap?

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Who is Jonas Rinde?

Jonas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomono, the Norwegian company working to simplify the recording and management of immersive broadcast-quality field audio, so that podcasters and journalists can focus on the stories being told.

Before Nomono, Jonas was the COO and then CEO of Huddly, the Norwegian technology company that creates AI-infused smart meeting room cameras.

In 2007 Jonas’ went to work for TANDBERG, the Norwegian telecommunications provider, as their Director of R&D. During his time there, the business was acquired by Cisco for $3.3B and Jonas became a Director of Engineering at Cisco and a Board Member of Cisco Systems Norway.

Wanting to scratch an entrepreneurial itch, Jonas left Cisco in 2014 to become the Co-Founder and CEO of Electric White. The business was acquired by Acano, which was in turn sold to Cisco for $700m in 2016.

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Find Jonas here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasrinde/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonasRinde
Website: https://nomono.co/

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Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Jonas Rinde delves into designing tech that doesn’t feel technical, the challenge of product-market fit, and his relationship with risk and adventure.

Highlights include:

How do you mitigate the risks of growing a startup?
What can go wrong when you build a prototype too fast?
How do you know what to pay attention to?
Why do you want to make the technology disappear?
Who gets to decide what makes it onto the product roadmap?

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Who is Jonas Rinde?

Before Nomono, Jonas was the COO and then CEO of Huddly, the Norwegian technology company that creates AI-infused smart meeting room cameras.

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Find Jonas here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasrinde/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonasRinde
Website: https://nomono.co/

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Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen).

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/

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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/
Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Previous Episode

Mike Monteiro - Burning Down Design

Mike Monteiro sets fire to design orthodoxy, tech overlords, and his own Portuguese American history in this delightfully dark conversation.

Highlights include:

Why is it important to re-examine your beliefs?
Why do you have nothing further to tell people?
What shocked you about your Portuguese heritage?
How is unionisation a positive thing for tech workers?
Why do you want some people who listen to you to get angry?

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Who is Mike Monteiro?

Mike is the Design Director of Mule Design, the outspoken, outstanding, and slightly outrageous design consultancy that he co-founded with Erika Hall 21 years ago.

During that time, Mike has made an outsized contribution to the field of design. He is the Co-Host the Voice of Design podcast and has authored several books, including “You’re My Favourite Client”, “Ruined By Design”, and “Design Is a Job” - which is now in its 2nd edition!

With a unmissable emphasis on ethics, Mike pulls-no-punches as he singles out the failings of design and the industries that employ it, while also illuminating the opportunities and challenges we face - as designers - to right the ship.

His talks, like “How Designers Destroyed the World”, “How to Fight Fascism”, “My People Were In Shipping” and “Let’s Destroy Silicon Valley” have raised more than a few eyebrows, heart rates and figurative pitch forks.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/

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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/
Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Next Episode

Kat Vellos - We Should Actually Get Together

Kat Vellos shares with us why we need meaningful friendship, what we can do to design better ones, and how to safely navigate uncharted conversational waters.

Highlights include:

How did a conversation with a stranger change your life?
How do you ‘crack open the door’ to a more meaningful friendship?
What role does company culture play in enabling meaningful connection?
Should we have clear boundaries between our work life and home life?
Why are we getting lonelier when we have so many tools to connect?

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Who is Kat Vellos?

Kat is the Principal of Studio KV, the vehicle through which she speaks, coaches and facilitates experiences that help people to create better workplace cultures and to cultivate more meaningful connections with each other.

As the author and illustrator of "We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships", a book that builds on Kat’s extensive experience as a community organiser and workshop facilitator - she certainly knows a thing or two about cultivating connection!

Before starting Studio KV in early 2020, Kat was a Senior Product Designer at Slack, where she worked in a fast-moving experiment-driven growth team that was making it easier for customers to convert from free to paid plans.

Kat has been profiled in Forbes and quoted in Fast Company for her work as the Founder and previous Community Leader of Bay Area Black Designers, a professional development community for Black digital designers and UX researchers.

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Find Kat here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katvellos/
Website: https://www.katvellos.com/

Blog, Community & Resource:
https://weshouldgettogether.com/

Kat’s book:

We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships -
https://geni.us/A8zyt1

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