Getting2Alpha

About Getting2Alpha

Wanna innovate faster and smarter? Getting2Alpha pulls back the curtain on how breakthrough innovators bring their ideas to life - and delivers actionable tips to help you bring innovative ideas to life. You’ll meet luminaries who've created genre-defining hits - and rising stars who are shaping the future. Listen in and get inspired to innovate smarter and increase your odds of success.

Publisher

Amy Jo Kim

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 May 2015

Latest episode

11 May 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 107 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Humans Tell The Best Stories

   In this episode, Descript CEO Laura Burkhauser talks about what it means to build a human-forward AI video company in a world flooded with synthetic content. Laura came to Descript by an unlikely path — German literature, then product management at companies like Salesforce — and became CEO because she believed in what Descript was building: tools that keep the story in human hands while AI handles everything underneath. Hear about why Descript is investing heavily in AI but not aiming to be...

2. 

   4 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Chelsea Howe: AI, Game Jams, & the Future of Games

   Chelsea Howe is the Chief Product Officer at Sunblink, the studio behind the hit cozy life sim Hello Kitty Island Adventure. With deep experience in licensed games, live ops, & design leadership, she brings a sharp, systems-driven lens to how teams build, scale, & innovate. Listen as Chelsea shares how Sunlink is exploring AI in game development, what works & what absolutely falls apart, why game jams are secret engines of team learning, & how emerging trends from China may r...

3. 

   4 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Lisha Li: Democratizing Game Creation Through AI

   Lisha Li is the founder of Rosebud AI, a groundbreaking platform that makes game creation accessible to anyone. With roots in pure math & AI research, she’s transformed cutting-edge technology into creative tools that empower people to build, remix & share games in entirely new ways. Listen as we explore Lisha’s journey from academia & venture capital to launching Rosebud AI, & how she’s reimagining game design as a collaborative, ever-evolving ecosystem. Rosebud AI Linkedin

Inside a recent episode

Humans Tell The Best Stories

Published 11 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What a great question. I think that one of them is just how much of the job is being a simplifier and being a good communicator. So one of the gifts of being a senior is that you are able to appreciate things at an altitude that when you are two in the weeds, you just can't see the altitude because you are correctly focused on the three steps right in front of you and nailing them. Right. But it keeps you from like kind of being up here and seeing the forest for the trees and understanding like, oh, this is why this stuff is important. And so much of my job is looking around at all of my excellent people who are in the weeds, figuring things out and being a simplifier, pulling them out of those weeds every once in a while to just make things go faster, help them make some good decisions and then jump back out. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

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Quality

27

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

84