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The Start
by Patrick Johnson
The Start is a podcast focused on creative individuals and their growth in the industry, from the very beginning.
Episodes
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The Advice - Duane King
Duane King is an Interactive Creative Director and Designer, in Portland. Duane's one of the most knowledgeable and resourceful designers I’ve met. Today we sit down to talk about the longevity and sustainability of design, starting two businesses and working with companies like Nike and Herman...
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The Chance - Kerem Suer
Kerem Suer is a Product Designer at Operator, in San Francisco. Before that Kerem worked with FitBit and Omada Health. We talk about being motivated at work through seeing improvements in your own offline life through the products. Kerem grew up in Istanbul and came to Sulphur, Oklahoma as a...
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The Community - Jed Schmidt
Jed Schmidt is a JavaScript Developer at Uniqlo in NY. Before that Jed lived in Tokyo and worked as a Japanese Translator. We talk about the huge shift in jobs, and how it feels to be working in a field that was once his hobby! Jed also was a founder of BrooklynJS. He tells us what sparked the...
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Back In The Days - Yaron Schoen
Yaron Schoen is a Human Interface Designer and Product Designer in NY. Currently Yaron is working at Compass Inc., building a more sophisticated and tech-first real-estate company. Before that Yaron had a plentitude of work experiences - from a tiny design company in Jerusalem, founding Made For...
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The Right Amount of Chill - Yoko Sakao Ohama
Yoko Sakao Ohama is a Designer who lives in Brooklyn, NY and works at Squarespace. Aside from being an awesome designer, Yoko is also a dancer. In her spare time, she writes Why Aren't We Dancing - a curated newsletter about interesting dance videos she finds online. We sit down and talk about…
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The Craigslist Job - Liang Shi
Today we sat down with Liang, the Creative Director at Soma Water in New York. We talk about full-time vs freelance work, ego in design and the importance of showing your results rather than showing your work. Liang is hilarious and has sort of done EVERYTHING! No really, she has experience…
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The Bonsai Tree - Andy Mangold
Andy Mangold is a designer and co-founder of Friends of the Web in Baltimore, MD. On today's episode, we talk about defining what kind of designer your are, what it's like to work with your friends, and how he started his first company at the age of 16! Andy tells us about his path to his current...
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The RPG Maker - Scott Riley
Scott Riley is a Product Designer and an Emergency Front-End Developer who worked at Pact Coffee and joined the podcast from England at 6am. We talk about gaming, curiosity, and privilege. Scott joined the podcast all the way in from England (at 6am). He tells us about city vs. country living and...
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The Comedian - Pavan Trikutam
Pavan is a full-time software consultant at GrayBike, in San Francisco. He explains exactly what that title means, and how he uses technology, design and code to solve other people’s business problems. He explains the transition from the corporate world to starting his own thing. We talk about...
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The Queen of Jersey City - Jenn Schiffer
On this week’s episode we sit down with Jenn Schiffer to talk about her journey into the tech industry and its future. Our interview was a perfect mix between serious and hilarious — sort of what Jenn’s all about. On paper, she’s an open web engineer, but online she’s so much more. Jenn can find...
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The Gamer - Corey Grusden
On this week’s episode we sit down with Corey Grusden to talk about online vs offline communities, learning processes and a bunch of old computer games from the 80's. Corey works for So Fetch, but he started programming when computers tied up phone lines and he was 8 years old. His introduction…
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The UnaCorn - Una Kravets
In this week’s episode we sit down with Una Kravets to talk about emigrating from the Ukraine, falling in love with tech, and being the youngest person in the room. Una works for IBM's Design Lab, as a front-end developer on the cloud platform team in Austin, TX. We talk about how she became...
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The Season 3 Recap
With Season 3 in the books I wanted to recap the episodes and some things that stood out to me. Themes, if you will. This season we spoke about commitment, saying yes before you can say no, life outside of the industry, digital overdosing, being humans again and a bunch of other things. Thanks...
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The Dad & Designer - Dan Mall
For the final guest of the season we brought Dan Mall on the show to talk about his life, professionally and personally. Dan has done a lot in his life and he was incredibly open in sharing it with us. In a nut shell, we talked about his “failed” attempt as a 3D animator, producing work that…
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The Citizen Scholar - Randy J. Hunt
Randy’s life is a mix of thought-out steps and going where life takes him. In his professional career he’s managed to try various hats at a small shop in Orlando, get his masters from SVA, start Citizen Scholar, Inc, create The Supermarket and lead design at Etsy. He’s had a wild ride but it’s…
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The Mentor - Andrew Norcross
This is by far one of our favorite episodes. I’ve known Andrew for a while and he’s definitely the developer I hope I become one day. His determination, his patience, his bad ass tattoos all make up the man that Andrew Norcross is. But lets make one thing clear - it wasn’t the easiest road to get...
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The Risk - Keenan Cummings
In this episode we chat with Keenan Cummings about risks. Those we take on purpose and those that just happen. In Keenan’s case, those risks defined his career as a designer. When asked what Keenan wanted to do as a teenager he responded very simple, “study design.” Too bad he didn’t know what...
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The Lifelong Learner - Yesenia Perez
Yesenia Perez Cruz is known by most as a designer but after this week we like to say she’s a designer and student. She’s had the privilege to work at great companies like Happy Cog and Intuitive Company designing websites, apps and interfaces for clients like Zappos, MTV and Chef Garces. In this...
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The Letter - Claudina Sarahe
On a very philosophical level, this episode explores a lot of interesting facts about life when you listen “between the lines.” To start, a loving mother with a strong background in education raised Claudina. So when she decided to leave college after her freshman year, it was no surprise there…
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The Perspective - Ben Howdle
Ben is a self-taught developer, and designer, who specializes in JavaScript. He got his start the same way a lot of us did - by “googling it.” Even years into the game he still googles stuff, too. Ben grew as a developer by necessities as his projects and work required. Over time Ben built his...
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The Fortuneteller - Karolina Szczur
Karolina Szczur is a designer, developer and photographer living in Kraków, Poland. Karolina started working at a very young age as a fortuneteller for an online future teller company - randomly, we know - and has found work opportunities online ever since. In this episode, we talk about how...
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The Artist - Jen Mussari
Jen Mussari is a freelance lettering artist and illustrator. She’s never worked for anyone else and plans on keeping it that way. Her skills and fine-arts background helped her produce great work for clients like Squarespace, Airbnb, Kickstarter and to just name a few. In this conversation we…
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The Split Professional - Karl Stanton
Chatting with Karl proves our lives can take us anywhere, and each destination has a purpose. In Karl’s life he’s worked in two professions, music and development. He’s worked in Australia, Europe and currently resides in New York City. As a kid he SysOp'd bulletin board systems before the…
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The Committed - Lara Hogan
Lara Hogan is a Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy. A lot of Lara can be summed up in one word - commitment. Her level of decisiveness is definitely admirable and something I hope to achieve in my career in general. Overall, the conversation was a fun one, we talked about her…
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The Season 2 Recap
Patrick & Nick, hosts of The Start, reflect on Season 2. We talk about our favorite episodes, reoccurring themes throughout the season and moments of that really stuck with us. We also chat about our fun, out-of-the-ordinary interview with Jessica Hische and things we look forward to doing...
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The Anomaly - Jessica Hische
Having grown tired of the usual interview format, she politely asked us to break away from the norm and we happily obliged. We talked about Hazelton, Pennsylvania, her vacation in Europe, books she’s read, things she does while she works and mind-numbing reality TV. Shownotes Kerning Conference…
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The Opportunity - Christine Rode
As a kid, Christine would travel two hours away to visit her dad during the weekends and summer. She lived in Norway and often found herself in front of the computer, where she spent hours online with friends, building fan-sites for Pokemon characters. Christine continued to build sites…
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The (Virtual) Fashion Designer - Meng He
As a kid, Meng designed and sold clothes for the Sims computer game, which led her to pursue a career in fashion through Parsons. In class they drilled the idea of iteration into her head, helping her understand that the first idea isn’t always the best, and its definitely not the only one you’ll...
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The Beard - Rameet Chawla
The story starts with Rameet selling candy and burned CDs at school in order to earn some extra income...for his stock portfolio. From there he moved on to designing flyers for his mom’s real estate company, then eventually her colleagues, before moving onto building websites for them too. All...
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The Craft - Wells Riley
Wells Riley is a product designer at Envoy and a creator of the exceptional Hack Design and Startups, This Is How Design Works. Wells prides himself respecting the craft of design; understanding that good design takes time, effort, sweat and sometimes tears. Wells’ story includes bad grades in...
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The App - Brian DiFeo
What do you get when passion meets opportunity, meets Instagram? Ask Brian DiFeo. Brian took his passion for connecting people and combined it with his ability to recognize a new medium and a market need. The result? The first creative agency focused on shaping the way brands advertise on...
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The Snowglobe - Loren Baxter
Loren’s life can be summed up with two words: life experiences. He’s built his own products, worked for a successful start up and currently works as a freelancer and mentor for the designer fund. Loren Baxter’s first website was “Loren’s Paintball Shack”. He made it in high school with…
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The Email - Avi Flombaum
“Why do we have grades? Why do we have homework?” These are the types of question Avi Flombaum would ask his teachers. He just didn’t buy into the education system and now he’s on a mission to disrupt it with the Flatiron School. Listen in as Avi explains how he landed his first programming gig…
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The Curve - Drew Wilson
As a kid, Drew helped his dad run the first ever mail-order comics catalogue by packaging up goods to be shipped, sometimes to the actors of Starwars and other movie stars (yes, Nicholas Cage). While Drew always had an interest in art, his first glimpse at digital design occurred when his father...
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The Coincidence - Jackie Balzer
Jackie’s love for the boy-band Hanson and passion for tech drove her to build websites on an old, burnt computer. Like most at the time, she started by copy-and-pasting code for fan sites until she learned to write her own - and has built sites ever since. With a Computer Science degree from UCF…
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The Season 1 Recap
Nick and Patrick talk give a recap on the first season of The Start. Things that worked, things that didn't, and a little background about themselves and how this podcast got started. Shownotes: @nr Fan Shoes Finn Partners Text100 @patrickbjohnson Krate Design
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The Web Administrator - Dan Eden
Dan was once offered food in exchange for his design services and that's when he realized how much he loved design. Instead of waiting for things to be made, Dan went ahead and created the products he wanted to exist. Along the way he worked as a "Website Administrator" at a local company while…
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The Brother - Aubrey Johnson
Oddly enough, while Aubrey is a designer, he started writing HTML and CSS by hand in with a friend in detention. Early on in his career he took advantage of small opportunities like the Cooper City Bridge Run competition to bring his talents to larger audiences. After college, Aubrey found…
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The Life Long Designer - Samira Villamor
Samira's grandmother taught her the fundamentals of penmanship at a young age, which later became a love for lettering now seen throughout her work. As a kid she loved to design for herself and family members, starting with Pokemon and Hello Kitty fan sites. She loved design and the web so much…
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The Punk Designer - Jon Gold
Even though Jon liked design as a kid his focus was always on music; his dreamed of becoming a Rockstar. At one point in his life he was kicked out of school and ended up at a vocational school (or at least the US equivalent). He tried enrolling in a video editing course but it was full, so he...
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The Road Trip - Sam Soffes
Sam’s first experience in development was at age 10, when his mother brought him along to a free HTML class from his local ISP. Sam continued to tinker with development, making $100 for his first website. In high school, he convinced his mother to let him take a road trip to Atlanta to attend an...
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The Politician - Nathan Bashaw
Nathan's political career started with a few internships and ended shortly thereafter. He eventually shifted gears and ventured out to California to work with Olark and sunk his teeth into the start-up world. After a few projects and some start-up attempts, Nathan found a home with General…
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The Flyer Guy - Jonnie Hallman
Jonnie started programming at a young age, thanks to his father who showed him the joy in creating things with his hands. He went to school for design and stumbled upon some flyers that got him his first job and an introduction to Tina Roth Eisenberg (SwissMiss). In college he made things like...
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The Underaged Designer - Tim Smith
Tim fell in love with design when he was 15 year old, taking courses at his local community college. Since then, Tim has navigated the working world as a young designer, even in situations facing age-discrimination. Throughout his career, Tim has worked as a full-time designer, podcaster and as a...
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The Poker Room Supervisor - Dan Denney
Dan worked as a Porker Room Supervisor when he needed some extra cash to save up for his wedding. So he applied for a job in SEO at a studio in Florida. To his surprise they liked his resume enough to offer him a role as a Web Designer. After his first job, Dan created CSS Conf and now works at...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Start is a podcast focused on creative individuals and their growth in the industry, from the very beginning.
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Patrick Johnson
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