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