Huddle Stories, Episode 027: Don't predict the future, create it.
Hi Huddle community! And welcome to our newest builder members!
August is our first cohort 100% vetted and approved by Huddle Leads from the community. It’s an awesome group spanning from senior engineers at Slack, design leads from Spotify, to CTOs, CPOs and former founders.
Read on to hear about what’s being built this week inside Huddle – including a conversation that just dropped on Ready for Launch, a podcast hosted by a Huddle builder.
More soon,
Steph & Mike
Founders at Huddle
Tune in: Ready for Launch
Curious about the Huddle origin story? Huddle co-founder Steph chatted with Ian Black on her backstory and how Huddle got off the ground. Besides being the host of Ready For Launch, Ian’s also a Huddle member that focuses on transforming DTC brands, previously as a Design Lead at Lululemon & Growth Designer at Ledger.
Some highlights:
Going from Design to Founder: Steph’s journey from studying Architecture to starting Huddle.
“If you go out and take the actions to create something…you’ve just set a whole new set of things into motion. You don’t predict the future, you create it.”
Searching for The One: How moonlighting on different creative projects led to finding the one to go all in on. Plus, how learnings from killing small projects helped launch Huddle.
Being Non-Scalable: The importance of doing non-scalable tasks early on to deliver a great customer experience, and how to relinquish that control later on.
Huddle Love
Huddle Member Andrew Skotzko:
“I really loved the community ethos and transparency that I felt from y’all on the Orientation call. I loved the vibe.”
In case you’re new here…
Huddle is a community of 1200+ designers, builders, and creatives that work on startups together. Think of us as vetted collaborators in your pocket. On Huddle, getting a team is as easy as posting a tweet.
From pre-launch to Series B, startups of all sizes are using Huddle like a team extender. Get design help, pitch decks, engineering, branding, marketing, advisory, and more with cross-functional teams that spin up in <1day.
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