We fell in love with Uizard about nine months ago.  Uizard is an AI-enabled design tool for non-designers. It allows you to design great mockups, prototypes, websites, and generally interfaces in minutes. Even if you have no design experience. A couple of the coolest features are: its ability to turn a sketch you made on a napkin onto a beautiful digital design, and one that they are just rolling out called Autodesigner that converts text to design.  After using Uizard for a couple of months, we included the company in a long-form paper that we wrote about Adobe back in November of last year. This prompted the beginning of our conversation with Tony Belltranelli, co-founder and CEO of Uizard, and a Forbes 30 under 30 leader.  He is an incredibly thoughtful founder, engineer and AI expert. Very focused on achieving and maintaining product-market fit, and creating the opportunity for a fast growth curve. In this conversation he shares his journey to Uizard, and some of his key learnings from building and growing a product-led and community-driven company. And by the way… Autodesigner has been in beta for a few weeks, so please, make sure you check it out! Relevant links: * Tony on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-beltramelli-513b1219/⁠ * Uizard: ⁠https://uizard.io/⁠ * Autodesigner full walk-through: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD5j7Ll7wLs⁠ * Very interesting episode of “The Breakout Growth Podcast” - Interview with Tony Beltramelli (CEO Explains Changes in Approach that Led to Uizard’s Remarkable Growth Spike): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YRQqkDfes⁠ * Great LinkedIn post from Tony: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tony-beltramelli-513b1219_founders-startup-saas-activity-6889230200631111680-xdSW/⁠

Our guest today is Thaisa Fernandes, originally from Brazil, and living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2019. She is a designer, turned product and program manager and podcaster, that has crafted her career to always work in projects and companies that she is passionate about. The saying, “love what you do, and do what you love” fits her perfectly. You will find this episode filled with small and big personal stories, and a better understanding on how to just follow your path in life. Enjoy your time with Gretchen and Thais! https://www.linkedin.com/in/thaifernandes/ https://www.thaisafernandes.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latinx-in-power/id1524241268

Hello and welcome to today's conversation with Luciana Reznik. She is a successful serial entrepreneur and "Forbes 30 under 30" recipient. She grew her first company, Wolox, a digital transformation strategy, design and development firm, to over 400 employees with a strong regional presence across Latin America and the US. After selling it to Accenture, and a short-lived break, she went back to work, and launched her new company - Cedalio - last year in the decentralized storage space.  In her conversation with Trish, she gives us some great insights around the need and power of creating flexible abstraction layers to simplify development of decentralized apps, specifically around data storage. She will also give you a good idea of the speed at which the industry evolves by the fact that Cedalio is already pivoting its strategy to include emerging technologies that are solidifying their offering, even just 6 months after the company was founded.  As a serial entrepreneur Luciana gives us some great pointers as to how to build a company focused on innovation and product creation. They wrap up the conversation talking about Cedalio's growth strategy, focusing on the key stages of their Go To Market strategy. We hope you enjoy the conversation! https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucianareznik/ https://cedalio.com/ https://www.ikigaipartner.com/