Rob Petrozzo, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Rally, on a Panic with Friends Dual Podcast

I’m excited to have my good friend Rob Petrozzo, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Rally, on this special episode of Panic with Friends. It’s the first Panic with Friends dual podcast, so it won’t be a format you’re used to. There’s a lot more of me as Rob dual tracks this episode for Rally’s new podcast, The Best Money I Ever Spent. Rob’s spent the last several years building Rally into an amazing platform that makes fractional investing safe, easy, and accessible for everyone.

We talk about culture, community, and living through market cycles. We touch the crypto craze, why you need to nail UI, and what happens now that we’ve hit peak mobile. I like listening and talking with Rob because he understands culture. He understands brands. I’m seeing it all happen in real time and I’m learning stuff I’ll apply to my new comedy project.

You can listen to the podcast here on Spotify or Apple podcast and now all the episodes are on my YouTube channel as well. You can click subscribe on any of these channels and get the podcast alert each week.

You can also listen right here on the blog:

More details on the podcast are below…

Guest: Rob Petrozzo

Profile: Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer @OnRallyRd

Where to Find Him: Twitter, Rally

What’s Rob Panicked About?:  Howard with a backwards hat and a full biker outfit on.

Show Notes:

• Introduction (00:42)
• Welcome Rob (03:08)
• Thinking changed from 5 years ago (04:08)
• Living through market cycles (05:13)
• Domain experience counts (06:20)
• Cutting Signal from Noise (07:46)
• Survival matters (10:05)
• Starting Rally (11:40)
• The ICO craze (12:52)
• Fractional Warhol (15:46)
• Culture and the future (16:35)
• What we spend our money on (18:54)
• A different type of bear market (21:26)
• Gary Vaynerchuk’s ear (22:26)
• The ‘right’ community (23:06)
• ‘Mobile First’ generation (29:40)
• Nailing the UI (30:17)
• Rethinking the desktop (31:42)
• Hitting peak ‘Mobile’ (36:15)
• Betting on guys who survived before (37:40)
• DAOs – small is the new big (40:50)
• Passionate about comedy (41:48)
• NFT meets DAO meets Community (42:41)
• Howard’s favorite investor (48:49)
• The future of venture (49:09)
• Next breed of crossover investors (49:54)
• The one that got away (52:28)
• Thoughts on bootstrapping (54:10)
• Closing thoughts (55:57)
• Wrapping up  (59:38)

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