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95: How Block is Reinventing America’s Home Renovation Market

95: How Block is Reinventing America’s Home Renovation Market

FromInnovation Storytellers


95: How Block is Reinventing America’s Home Renovation Market

FromInnovation Storytellers

ratings:
Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Mar 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In the latest episode of the Innovation Storytellers podcast, I take a deep dive into the renovation industry with Koda Wang, the co-founder of Block Renovation. Koda shares his experience as an immigrant and how his parents' work ethic inspired him to create a platform that simplifies and enhances the renovation process for contractors and homeowners alike. Prior to founding Block Renovation, Koda worked as the Chief Customer Officer at Rent the Runway and the Chief Operating Officer at The Huffington Post. He also shares how his time at HuffPost taught him the value of sleep as a performance enhancer rather than an obligatory cost. Join me in conversation with Koda as we discuss the positive reinforcement loop that comes from recognizing the advantages in life compared to one's parents and how to renovate your own conceptions of the renovation industry.  
Released:
Mar 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process. I’m Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn’t always. I’ve been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I’ve spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can’t see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.