Reducing Meeting Times by 70% and Increasing Your Team’s Innovation by Reimagining Collaboration, with Balloon’s Amanda Greenberg

<p>Justin Gordon (<a href="https://twitter.com/justingordon212">@justingordon212</a>) talks with Amanda Greenberg (<a href="https://twitter.com/AKGreenberg">@AKGreenberg</a>), Co-Founder and CEO of Balloon, a research-backed platform that unlocks ideas and feedback from a group by eliminating groupthink and amplifying voices. They’re rebuilding the way teams collaborate, making them more productive, innovative, informed, and inclusive.</p><p>Before founding Balloon, Amanda was a public health researcher, translating science and research into national behavior change campaigns for the U.S. CDC and EPA. Her research focused on engagement, listening, and community-based decision-making, and it was in that work that she discovered that groupthink plagues decision-making. To solve this problem, she and her co-founder Noah built Balloon from the ground up to align with research for how to unlock the highest quality and quantity of information from a group...and how to do it in the most productive way possible.</p><p>Website: <a href="https://getballoon.com/">Balloon</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandagreenberg/">linkedin.com/in/amandagreenberg/</a></p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/AKGreenberg">@AKGreenberg</a></p><p>Show Notes:</p><ul> <li>How Balloon is enabling teams to drive better outcomes, leverage creativity, and improve productivity</li> <li>Amanda’s background and how it led to great founder-market fit to build Balloon</li> <li>Navigating minimal prior exposure to tech entrepreneurship and VC</li> <li>Deciding to raise funds through angel investors, being Vitalize Angels' first portfolio company, and the value of diverse cap tables</li> <li>The big vision for Balloon </li> <li>How Balloon’s flight templates fuel their growth by building credibility</li> <li>How they on-boarded and partnered with industry experts</li> <li>How pandemic-related shifts in FOW have affected Balloon</li> <li>Balloon’s use-cases and the ROI it provides to companies</li> <li>How Balloon u