The Rise Awards

Awards series celebrating top talent, at all positions

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Awards series celebrating top talent, at all positions

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Hey Everyone, I’m thrilled to announce I’m launching a passion project: The Rise Awards — an award series & community celebrating top talent at all positions. This all emerged from a simple curiosity: “Who made that?” Early on at PH, I asked that question every day as I and the team hunted down the makers of incredible products to bring them into the conversation. As I did, I discovered a nearly endless treasure trove of world-class designers, engineers, product managers, and data scientists. Why were they unknown previously? One way people get recognized for excellent work is through awards & press. But typically, front-facing leaders (founders, founding teams, execs etc.) win the the awards. These leaders deserve much credit, to be sure, but it takes a whole team to build a great product. So, I’m launching an awards series to celebrate world-class performers across the board — from executives to executive assistants, engineers to event managers, designers to data scientists, makers to managers, and everyone in between building great companies. I’m stoked to launch this on PH because this community (+ Ryan and rest of PH team) has always been about celebrating makers and individual contributors -- at whatever level or position. If this resonates with you, nominate someone today who you feel deserves recognition for their work here. Winners meet other specific category winners, judges, and partners at private events. Would love to hear your feedback! For more info on how it works, check this post: https://medium.com/@eriktorenber... P.S. Huge thanks to @rjvir, @melissajoykong, @bvishny, @naitik_17, @lazalberto, and @alvinhsia for helping make this happen!

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

@eriktorenberg @eriktorenberg_ this is awesome Erik! ✨

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10yr ago

Operation Pie

@eriktorenberg Congratulations on the launch. Working with you on, On Deck (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...), I know that you are an amazing hustler in the community. I hope to see this passion project grow over the years and I have no doubt that you will push it there. Congrats again to you and the rest of the team. // @eriktorenberg_ @rjvir @melissajoykong @bvishny @naitik_17 @lazalberto @alvinhsia

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10yr ago

Toasty

@eriktorenberg @eriktorenberg_ @rjvir @melissajoykong @bvishny @naitik_17 @lazalberto @alvinhsia So cool! Everyone deserves to shine! ☀️ ☀️ ☀️

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10yr ago

@eriktorenberg Very cool man!

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10yr ago

@eriktorenberg this is a fantastic birth of an idea and worthy of widespread attention. IMO, this is one of the best projects to ever hit Product Hunt. I'd like to connect you to some companies/execs and organizations who would support you and also have their companies/orgs participate. Hit me up on LinkedIn and we can find a time to chat.

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

🙌❤️ erik This is amazing. I love the idea of recognising the actual builders vs just the press savy founders. Kudos

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10yr ago

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Maker

@andreasklinger Thank you + Ryan for judging + the whole team for support!

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10yr ago

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I've always dreamed about an 'IMDB for Products' because the tech industry still doesn't do a great job of recognizing and rewarding talent beyond the CEO. Erik's vision for The Rise Awards got at the heart of what makes our community great - let's recognize the talented builders working inside our favorite companies

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10yr ago

World Cup Next

@hunterwalk I've tried to build this before, unfortunately unlike other industries in tech people are actively prohibited from take credit for their work (especially in agencies).

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10yr ago

Mute.vc

@eriktorenberg Completely agree that everyone deserves to be recognized! How do you make sure that this doesn't become a *Silicon Valley* echo chamber? Judges favoring their friends or friends' friends, top startups taking home all the awards.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@tomfme committed to diversity (race, gender, age, etc). goal is 50/50 gender split. judges will help. great Q. keep us accountable.

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10yr ago

Mute.vc

@eriktorenberg Will do!

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10yr ago

The Full Ratchet

Kudos on the initiative. It's great to see awards going out to the rank-and-file employees of startups who do 95% of the work and seldom get the public credit they deserve.

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10yr ago

Congrats on the launch man. Great idea, I can't wait to see the first awards and than to see where you gonna take this next. All the best

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10yr ago

DTiQ

How should we handle those in the game industry? I mean terms of those respective roles/titles and getting them to correspond. Be mindful of that for other verticals as well. So Artists/Animators could go into design, but what about composers? We could go into the nitty gritty of other facets of marketing as well (B2B/SaaS/Mobile/ecommerce/hardware, etc.) Doesn't need to be perfect first time, though.

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10yr ago

Kyber

Great idea @eriktorenberg, and congrats on yet another venture! Curious to know based on what the judges will select winners. How does let's say Chris Sacca knows how good that engineer in one team is if he never worked with or even met her? Crowd votes mean the larger your current (and past) company/network is, the higher chances you have to win? It's actually an interesting problem and would be interesting to know how you planned to solve it!

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10yr ago

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