Shows
LaunchPod | Product Management PodcastThe 3 Biggest Barriers to AI Adoption Across Your Team | Derek Pharr, CPO (Sporcle)Why is AI adoption so hard inside companies? Derek Pharr, CPO at Sporcle, joins LaunchPod to reveal the 3 biggest barriers to AI adoption and how he helped his team overcome them.
In this episode, you’ll learn how Sporcle:
The 3 biggest barriers to AI adoption and how Derek addressed them
How Sporcle built a “content intern” with Claude Projects to augment trivia writers and improve user engagement
How Derek prototyped, tested, and rejected a doomed product idea in under an hour
Links
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekpharr/
Sporcle: https://www.sporcl...
2025-08-2130 min
WorkDadDerek Pharr | Leaving Corporate Life For TriviaDerek Pharr had a choice to make. He was in a comfortable corporate job making a good living with a young family, but he was feeling stifled and unfulfilled. He could take the safe route and stick with his job, but risk his mental wellbeing, or he could make the leap to an unproven startup with massive financial risk that might turn into the job of his dreams.
Derek shared his story with us, why he has never looked, and what lessons he learned in the latest episode of the WorkDad podcast.
2024-04-011h 01
Trivial Warfare TriviaTW380 - SporcleCon: The PodcastThis week's episode is a SporcleCon takeover! We're joined by Derek Pharr and Holly Minshull who are here to represent the Sporcle home office against Jonathan and TWA favorite Rob Everett with Erin Barclay hosting. We have a fabulous time and I think you're gonna love it. TriviaMatic Code - 737808 Sponsored by: SporcleCon - get tickets at www.sporclecon.com AND Betterhelp - www.betterhelp.com/twa
2022-06-271h 57
Living The DreamUntil We're All Free (Pt. 2)The untimely, horrific murder of George Floyd in broad daylight by police officer, Derek Chauvin has incited much more than just a few conversations around the globe. With the world in unrest due to the jolt of pain felt by many nations and tongues by way of the heinous crime, it has become now more necessary than ever before to find healing for wounds long-ago caused by the sins of a nation. Deadly patterns of injustice and hate have to be ended. In episode nine, the second and final installment, listen as host Bryan Pharr and a surprise guest...
2020-06-0746 minLiving The DreamUntil We're All Free (Pt. One)The untimely, horrific murder of George Floyd in broad daylight by police officer, Derek Chauvin has incited much more than just a few conversations around the globe. With the world in unrest due to the jolt of pain felt by many nations and tongues by way of the heinous crime, it has become now more necessary than ever before to find healing for wounds long-ago caused by the sins of a nation. Deadly patterns of injustice and hate have to be ended. In episode eight, listen as host, Bryan Pharr and a surprise guest converse concerning their experience together...
2020-05-3139 min