How to Organize the World's Ambition

Today is the last episode of the year, and so we’re celebrating by doing something a little different. Rather than have a single guest on, we invited 11 senior On Deck employees to answer a single question: What trend do you expect to change, emerge, or accelerate in 2022? 

To help them answer honestly, we were very clear that these aren’t necessarily predictions. Instead, my colleagues were instructed to think about patterns they’ve noticed this past year and project how they might shift or continue in 2022.

Next year, we’ll revisit this analysis and ask our colleagues where they were right, where they were wrong, and why.

Here are the guests:

First up is Andreas Klinger- On Deck’s CTO and a seed investor on the side. Andreas is based in Berlin. You can find him on Twitter @andreasklinger

Minn Kim is a partner at ODX based in San Francisco. ODX is On Deck’s community-backed fund and accelerator program. In her role, Minn’s job is to help the best founders in the world by removing obstacles, opening doors, and creating customized programming for each startup in the program. She’s had some exposure to some incredible companies this year through her amazing work at On Deck. You can find her on twitter @minney_cat

Eric Friedman is also an ODX Partner and has served as On Deck’s interim COO. He helps founders push rocks uphill and can be found in New York City and on Twitter @ericfriedman

Anne Bosman just joined On Deck to be the General Manager of our Careers division. She joins us from Boston after 5 years leading operations at General Assembly and multiple COO/operations leadership roles at other organizations. She can be found on twitter at @anneolough

We welcome back Atlanta-based KP to the show after he joined us in October to chat about building in public. We thought his perspective would be an interesting one to share immediately after Anne’s comments to provide that contrast. As a reminder, KP is Director of On Deck’s No Code program and can be found on twitter @thisiskp_

Julian Weisser is a cofounder of On Deck and has helped bring many functions of our company from 0 to 1, including this podcast. He is currently helping founders get involved with our ODX accelerator program. His Twitter DMs are open @julianweisser

Shriya Nevatia is another return guest after joining us alongside Gaby Goldberg in our Citizens of the Metaverse episode. Shriya joins us from New York City and is the Director of On Deck Catalyst. ​​Catalyst helps ambitious students and early-career people start their first company or break into venture capital. She is on Twitter @shriyanevatia 

One of On Deck’s two CEOs, David Booth, joins us from New Zealand. You can find David’s thoughts about how to organize the world’s ambition on Twitter @david__booth 

Katya Delaney is an Editorial lead on our Growth & Content team. Her recommendations to this podcast over the last few months have been most welcome.

Earlier in the episode, Andreas mentioned that he expects more competition between different countries for remote talent. We wanted to make sure we spoke to Gonz Sanchez about this too. Gonz is the Head of Growth for our Startups division. He’s based in Argentina and also writes about European tech for his newsletter @seedtable. You can find him on Twitter @gonsanchezs

Last, but not least, Eade Bengard is On Deck’s Director of Brand Marketing. In the past, Eade has worked with brands like AirBnb, Audi, Ideo, Levi’s and more. She joins us from Austin and can be found on Twitter @eade_bengard

Marshall shared his thoughts too. If there are any guests you think we should have on the show or topics you think we should cover, please DM @makosloff or @jacksonsteger on Twitter. Thank you as always, for listening.