Bootstrapper's Paradise

Trip’s experience and product portfolio is diverse. It includes consumer hardware, software, cloud services, enterprise software, among others at solving complex problems at scale. Trip's grounded product experience combines a track record for envisioning, defining and shipping new ideas, products and technologies resulting in new products, services, intellectual property and driving business outcomes at companies like Amazon, MSFT and Adobe. He is the new CXO at the Y-combinator company Habitat in Philadelphia which deals with last mile delivery technology. On this week's episode of Product Launch, Sean and Trip discuss

What is a CXO (Chief Experience Officers) role all about
Why success is all about people, product, and process
East vs West coast approaches to building a tech company 
The importance of a humanistic, experimental, future based mindset 
“People don’t buy a drill, they buy a repeatable quarter inch hole”
Developing a customer obsession at your organization
The importance of failure

Resources:

Trade Off, by Kevin Maney: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6664826-trade-off
Brave New Workforce Podcast: https://www.thebraveworkforce.com/

Connecting with Trip

Connect with Trip through Twitter: https://twitter.com/tripodell?lang=en
Connect with Trip over Email: trip.odell@tryhabitat.com

Show Notes

Trip’s experience and product portfolio is diverse. It includes consumer hardware, software, cloud services, enterprise software, among others at solving complex problems at scale. Trip's grounded product experience combines a track record for envisioning, defining and shipping new ideas, products and technologies resulting in new products, services, intellectual property and driving business outcomes at companies like Amazon, MSFT and Adobe. He is the new CXO at the Y-combinator company Habitat in Philadelphia which deals with last mile delivery technology. On this week's episode of Product Launch, Sean and Trip discuss

  • What is a CXO (Chief Experience Officers) role all about
  • Why success is all about people, product, and process
  • East vs West coast approaches to building a tech company 
  • The importance of a humanistic, experimental, future based mindset 
  • “People don’t buy a drill, they buy a repeatable quarter inch hole”
  • Developing a customer obsession at your organization
  • The importance of failure

Resources:

  • Trade Off, by Kevin Maney: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6664826-trade-off
  • Brave New Workforce Podcast: https://www.thebraveworkforce.com/

Connecting with Trip

  • Connect with Trip through Twitter: https://twitter.com/tripodell?lang=en
  • Connect with Trip over Email: trip.odell@tryhabitat.com



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Quick, actionable episodes for aspiring SaaS founders who want to build on their own terms. No fluff, no theory, just real strategies from a serial bootstrapper who's done it multiple times.