"Founders are NOT artists...." w/ Martin Ringlein

Follow Martin: https://x.com/martymadrid/ About Martin: Martin started as a Computer Science undergrad at The University of Maryland and is an alumni of the Columbia Business School. He spent the majority of my early career as a designer and front-end developer prior to jumping into the world of entrepreneurship. His first start-up was acquired by Twitter, pre-IPO, where he joined to help build and lead the Research & Design function. Following Twitter, he joined the Obama administration as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. And then, his most recent start-up was acquired by Eventbrite, pre-IPO, where he joined to run Global R&D. he has spent the past four-years in Venture Capital investing in early-stage start-ups as well as leading corporate innovation initiatives within the Fortune 500 through a Venture Studio model. Now, he is building Agree.com and is a GP at Adventure Fund. (00:00) Intro (02:06) Who is Martin? (02:58) How has design evolved overtime? (07:56) What creates good design? (11:17) What really is taste? Martin thinks it's irrelevant what it is 👀 (16:20) Lucky v/s unlucky (26:09) Storytelling is more important than Designer? (40:05) Pattern Recognition! (45:46) Are people more similar in their way of thinking or more different in their way of thinking? (58:51) The greatest question