Lifting All Boats: Why Tides Only Rise Through Community-Building with Matthew Byrd & Phil Ellering
In episode 70, RCN CEO & Founder Matthew Byrd and Creative Producer Phillip Ellering discuss podcasting, community-building, prepared vs. organic conversation, authenticity, collaboration vs. competition, and more.
Episode Timeline
0:53 The greatest benefits of podcasting since Matthew started it
4:04 An example and story of episode feedback
7:01 An Elon Musk prediction…and analysis
9:56 What Matthew would ask Elon, and prepared vs. organic conversation
14:20 Bullet-pointing topics, and conference panels
19:03 How Matthew realized and developed his style
22:01 Authenticity on camera and in conversation
25:19 The biggest motivation behind Matthew’s content output
26:47 An anecdote from Geoweek on comfort in unpredictability
29:37 Topics and industries Matthew is excited to explore soon
32:21 The Dallas Fort-Worth Airport and data
34:07 Will AI expedite scaling?
35:38 RCN Ignite and reality capture startups
39:12 Sourcing inspiration
43:05 Collaboration and competition
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