This one's for anyone who's ever wondered what it actually takes to get a self-initiated idea across the finish line. Catt catches up with Edwin Morris — a designer she met on a New York City design community panel back in 2023 — to hear what happened since they last talked. Edwin spent his final year at Datadog shipping a cross-team project he had pitched himself, nurtured through months of internal resistance, and finally launched on the main stage at Dash. Now he's a year into a completely new chapter at Jane Street, building internal tools in a totally different sector.

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ℹ️ In this episode

• How Edwin pitched a cross-team project with no metrics to back it up and got it built anyway
• Why the harshest feedback he got ended up saving the project
• What "leading w ...