PBC #53: How to Design Non-Sh**t Conferences with ANDY BUDD

Episode description

Jonathan interviews Andy Budd, co-founder of Clearleft and the man behind popular design conferences like UX London and Leading Design. Jonathan asks lots of questions and but doesn’t even get close to asking everything he wants to ask. Some of the topics Jonathan and Andy touch on:

How Andy is pathological! It’s true! 👻

What are conferences for? Spoiler: it’s not education! 🤔

How to connect with people at conferences? 🤚🏻

How does Andy balance watching over 500 conference talks a year with running Clearleft? 🤯

Managing cashflow when running an agency. 🤑

How to agency? 🧐

Lastly they talk about selling out, because, spoiler, Jonathan is thinking of SELLING OFF AJ&SMART! WHAAAT! Yeah, no, just kidding. 😌

Links

1. Andy Budd on Twitter
2. andybudd.com
3. Clearleft
4. UX London 2019
5. Leading Design Conf 2019
6. PBC #11: Why Most Design Conferences Suck
7. PBC #44: Growing USTWO + The Future of Creative Business with Jules Ehrhardt
8. PBC #49: MONA PATEL on Starting and Growing a Multi Million Dollar Design Agency
9. Ex Machina
10. Artificial Intelligence: The Norwegian Retreat
11. SXSW
12. BOOK: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
13. BOOK: Capital: A Novel
14. Smashing Conf
15. Buy Sprint!
16. Buy Make Time!
17. Check out, nay, GO BUY the AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass: ajsmart.com/masterclass 💰

The Hosts

• Jonathan Courtney: Instagram, Twitter, AJ&Smart, Innovation Hackers, jonathancourtneyux.com
• Jake Knapp: jakeknapp.com, The Sprint book, Make Time book, Twitter
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