Ep. 425 – SampleCon 2021 Highlights: Roddy Knowles, VP, Product and Research Innovation

Welcome to the SampleCon 2021 Highlights Series. Recorded live in Pasadena, this series is bringing interviews straight to you from exhibitors, speakers and attendees at this year’s event. In this interview, host Jamin Brazil interviews Roddy Knowles, VP, Product and Research Innovation. More about SampleCon 2021: https://samplecon.com/ Find Roddy Online: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roddyknowles/  Email: [email protected]  Website: https://feedbackloop.com/  Find Jamin Online: Email: [email protected]  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch  Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp  Website: www.happymr.com  Music:  “Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com  [00:00:00] Jamin Brazil: Hey, everybody. I am joined by Roddy Knowles. My God, man, we've known each other a long time. [00:00:09] Roddy Knowles: Has been a long time. Yeah. [00:00:10] Jamin Brazil: Feedback Loop is where you are. Tell me about Feedback Loop. Let's start there. [00:00:14] Roddy Knowles: Sure. So we're an agile research platform for rapid consumer feedback. And, so, to unpack that a little bit, agile research is something that everybody's been talking about over the last couple of years, maybe a bit of a buzz word, but that's what we've been doing, really, from the onset, is focusing on doing research in agile way to support teams that work in an agile way. So one of the things that differentiates us is we work with a lot of non-researchers, really geared towards doing- Towards providing a platform for non-researchers to use. It has guardrails in, so they can conduct research safely, get fast, easy, reliable data. Work with research teams too, a lot of them [INAUDIBLE] multiply what they are doing to support teams that need to move fast, product teams, marketing teams, teams like that. So, yeah, that's pretty much what we're up to in a nutshell. [00:00:52] Jamin Brazil: Is it predominately quant? [00:00:54] Roddy Knowles: We just- You weren't in the panel, Jamin, we were talking about, is it quant, is it qual, is it neither? [00:00:58] Jamin Brazil: I know [00:00:59] Roddy Knowles: I'd say it's neither. I call it agile research. It's really interesting, if you talk to UX researchers, they might say, "This is quant because the sample size if 50." But, for more quant researchers, they might, like I said,