Bytes Over Bagels
Interviews and news with Chicago's biggest players in technology, design, and venture capital. A Unicorn Road production.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2020
S2 - EP 3: Future of HR Tech
Leaders in the field of People Operations join us as we explore how the realm of Human Resources has evolved to rise to the needs of new generations, to leverage new technology, and to keep the field…
S2 - EP 2: Diversity and Inclusion
We cover diversity and inclusion with interviews from, Bhatki Patel, 3D Artist at Facebook who did work on Marvel’s Black Panther among others, and Amanda Lannert, CEO at Jellyvision here in Chicago.
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S2 - EP 1: Back to the Bytes
Premiering in 2013, Bytes Over Bagels quickly became a favorite weekly podcast for the Chicago Tech scene. Debuting February 20th and broadcasting for 40 straight weeks, the group interviewed some of…
EP 40: Shift-Gi-gi-goo
Today's interview is with Eddie Lou, CEO and Co-Founder, Shiftgig. Shiftgig is the (yeah we italicized "the") online community for the service and hospitality industries. Eddie started out slanging …
EP 39: Wowzzzerrrs
Today's interview is with Andrew Howard, Co-Founder and Sara Trice, Lead Developer, Wowzers. Wowzers is a complete cloud-based solution for 3-8th grade math studies. The Wowzers platform gives teach…
EP 38: O to the C-A
Perk up Chicago Start-ups, tuck in your shirts, today we interview Jason Heltzer, General Partner, OCA Ventures. OCA is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed and traditional venture capital inv…
EP 37: One eyed, one horned, flying purple plunger sharer
This week's featured interview is with Greg Jaros, Founder and Gint Rudis, Co-Founder of Spare to Share, a hyper local-sharing platform on web and mobile for things you own or things you need. When t…
EP 36: Let's go ride a bike
This week's featured interview is with Michael Anthony Salvatore, Owner Heritage Bicycles. Mike knows bikes - he's been building them for years in NYC and now at his shop here in Chicago. He also kn…
EP 35: What can (Chris) Brown do for you?
This week's featured interview is with Chris Brown, Group Vice President of Mobile at Orbitz Worldwide. Chris shares intriguing stats on mobile adoption for booking travel and Orbitz's mobile growth…
EP 34: Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun
This week's featured interview is with the Divvy duo, Elliot Greenberger, Deputy General Manager at Divvy, and Scott Kubly, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Transportation. If you haven't seen Div…
EP 33: If you're fat and you know it Retrofit
This week's featured interview is with Chicago's very own, Jeff Hyman, CEO of Retrofit. Retrofit is a web-based weight loss program that combines wearables (think Fitbit), wireless scales and regular…
EP 32: Shop until ya drop
This week's featured interview is with Tracey Wiedmeyer, CTO and Co-Founder of InContext Solutions. InContext Solutions creates simulated shopping experiences for manufacturers and brands to test the…
EP 31: Waiting is the hardest part
This week's featured interview is with Shrada Agarwal, Chief Strategy Officer, Co-Founder and Head of Media at Context Media. Context Media is a booming bootstrapped biz that delivers relative and en…
EP 30: Na na na na na na na na....Craig gurl!!
Craig Ulliott, CTO, Co-Founder and Head of Product at Belly, the World's best and most entertaining loyalty program (or "experiential rewards" in Craig's words). Belly basically rewards you for bein…
EP 29: Cherry, Cherry Baby!
Tom Sosnoff is Founder of TastyTrade. Tastytrade is a live, video-based Financial "Network" (like CNN Money but not at all - these guys actually can help you invest). Five days a week Tom and his en…
EP 28: Bhatt, what I really want to say is...
Ravi Bhatt is Co-Founder and CEO of Branchfire. Branchfire is responsible for a little used (only a million+ users) iPad App called iAnnotate. iAnnotate allows you to read, markup and share documents…
EP 27: Dropping logs and writing blogs
Andy Crestodina is Web Strategist and Co-Founder of Orbit Media. Orbit Media is a wildly successful Web Design and Web marketing firm in Chicago, working with local legends like Lou Malnati's, Vienna…
EP 26: The wonderful wizard of John
John Roa, Founder and CEO, AKTA. AKTA is one of Chicago's premier Experience Design Shops. John Roa has had his hands in a number of digital projects since he was 17 and brings a real honest perspect…
EP 25: A nun and a priest
David Vinca is Founder, eSpark Learning and Luke Shepard, CTO. eSpark Learning is harnessing the power of educational 3rd party apps to build a platform for customized learning experiences in the cla…
EP 24: Parkers, prepare for glory
Mark Lawrence, Co-Founder at Spot Hero. Mark spins the tale of how he grew SpotHero early on to 10,000 users, with a horrific 42 step form to reserve a parking space. Since then its been fame and glo…