Justin Gordon
Justin Gordon is the founder of "Just Go Grind" and host of the "Just Go Grind Podcast," a daily show with more than 200 episodes featuring interviews with entrepreneurs and investors. He has an MBA from USC, is an aspiring runner with a 1:29 half marathon personal best, and wants to help one billion people in his lifetime.
How Trellis Aims to Solve Litigators' Pain with a Platform that Aggregates Data from State Courts
Feb 08 2021
On this week's episode of Just Go Grind, hear from Nicole Clark, co-founder and CEO of Trellis, a research platform for litigators aimed at democratizing access to the law by making state trial court records and legal data more accessible. Trellis lets users search records in ways they wouldn't otherwise be able, including by subject, opposing counsel, judge and company.
<h2>Key Takeaways:</h2><blockquote></blockquote><ul class="ee-ul"><li>Trellis takes data from individual state courts and makes it searchable on a single interface. The platform also provides analytics on judges and litigation at the trial court level as well.</li><li>Clark says she was scared to take the leap to leave her law firm to fully commit to Trellis, but describes the desire to start the company as a compulsion, the pain point felt so obvious and important to solve.</li><li>Fundraising for Clark was extremely time-consuming. She recommends raising quickly in order to get back to running the business. </li><li>The growth trajectory for Trellis took off after they moved to a freemium customer acquisition model.<em> </em></li></ul><blockquote style="margin-left: 20px;"><em></em></blockquote><blockquote>"You don't need to get your team perfect from day one. What you need to do is get a team that allows you to get to that next step. — and that next step<em>." — Nicole Clark</em></blockquote><p><strong><em></em>Nicole Clark </strong>is the co-founder and CEO of Trellis. She previously worked as a litigator at various law firms. She graduated from Rutgers School of Law.<br></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 20px;"></blockquote><p>
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How Prewitt Ridge's Steve Massey Hopes to Make Systems Engineering More Like Software Development
Dec 14 2020
On this week's episode of Just Go Grind, hear from Steve Massey, co-founder and CEO of the early-stage startup Prewitt Ridge, which was founded in 2019 to tackle the largest meta-problem in deep tech: systems engineering.
The company aims to reduce friction in collaborative design efforts by connecting critical data elements between engineering teams and offering git-like tracking of project-wide changes.
<h2>Key Takeaways:</h2><ul class="ee-ul"><li>Prewitt Ridge is trying to solve a digital engineering problem by building a tool that allows engineering teams to stay nimble for a longer period of time, while also allowing the teams to grow using IBM Doors or Java software tools and keep development fast paced without having to scale it too quickly.</li><li>Prewitt Ridge is venture backed.</li><li>Prewitt Ridge went through a <a data-linked-post="2646164360" href="https://dot.la/heres-the-2nd-class-of-techstars-starbust-space-accelerator-2646164360.html" target="_blank">TechStars accelerator program</a> that was backed by the Air Force.</li><li>Prewitt Ridge <a data-linked-post="2647541257" href="https://dot.la/techstars-aerospace-alums-gather-for-a-day-of-partnership-and-project-reveals-2647541257.html" target="_blank">has partnered with JPL</a> and is currently rolling out its software inside NASA JPL to fill a niche on a couple of early-stage lunar lander missions. </li><li>It's looking to expand into commercial and direct-to-government partnerships.</li></ul><blockquote>"If we build the right tool, we will be able to capture enough of a segment of the market and transform engineering the same way that it has transformed software development." — Steve Massey</blockquote><p><strong><em></em>Steve Massey </strong>is the co-founder and CEO of Prewitt Ridge. Prior to that, he was at Slingshot Aerospace for two years where he led the development of their real-time edge analytics pipeline working with USAF and defense contractor customers. He also spent five years at SpaceX where he acted in a mission management and integration engineer role for multiple early Falcon 9 launches as well as led the avionics build for their Hyperloop pusher project.<br></p><p>
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On this week's episode of Just Go Grind, hear from Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a company that provides education programs and an entertainment crowdfunding platform. Their goal is to support content that's more diverse, inclusive and connected than what typically gets produced.
The startup recently launched "Film Forward," a comprehensive training program based on Seed&Spark's films that aims to teach industry organizations soft skills in order build more inclusive workplaces .
<h2>Key Takeaways:</h2><ul class="ee-ul">
<li>At a career crossroads, Best chose to start Seed&Spark over becoming to a film producer because her mission was to create as much impact as possible. Providing a platform for many creators rather than support for a single project at a time was the obvious choice for her. </li>
<li>Seed&Spark has over 2,000 movies and shows and has raised close to $30 million for those projects.</li>
<li>One of Best's biggest hurdles was overcoming the recommendation algorithms that can create opinion silos that go on to dominate social media marketing and the streaming platforms. Best said, "so effectively in the great democratization of distribution, we are only reaching people who already agree with us. And that's not the point." Ending those silos inspired Best to create the company's "Film Forward" campaign.</li>
</ul><blockquote>"One of one of my early advisers said to me, 'to scale your company is to scale yourself'. And that has never not been true...but you have to really ...know that and then be willing to to do it and go through that pain." — Emily Best</blockquote><p>
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