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d.MBA


Apr 3, 2018

Steve Vassallo is a general partner at Foundation Capital (VC firm that invested in Pocket, Netflix, Uber etc.). Prior to that, he worked as a lead designer at IDEO where he worked on a famous Cisco's 7900 series VoIP phone. He recently published a book "The Way to Design", which helps designers become entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs adopt best design practices. You can read the book for free online.

In the episode we talked about:

  • why will the 21st century be the decade of design,
  • why empathy has become a buzzword and what empathy really is,
  • common struggles of designers who want to become entrepreneurs.