David Rubin and Eric Ryan

Think & Link: January 15th (Thursday), 3:00-5:00 pm Central (In-Person, and Streamed LinkedIn Live)

Starting off ‘26 with another dose of great design playing a role in publishing, entrepreneurship and consumer products.

We have Eric Ryan, most known for co-founding Method Products and Olly and dramatically less known for having spoken at an annual AMA event back in the early 2000s at the request of Aaron Keller. Eric’s photo should be on the Wikipedia page for “serial entrepreneurship” because he can’t seem to stop going after boring categories with great design and category leadership.

To make this a January to remember we’ve got David Rubin, CMO of The New York Times. David is returning to our Think & Link stage due to popular demand and because he is adored by the Capsule team. You can go back to the podcast episode (2020) and listen to David and Fernando Machado at Burger King -- thoroughly enjoyable.

We'll be looking for red threads on the role of design in all of Eric’s ventures and inside the New York Times. And, like many of our events, we’ll be covering a variety of other topics designed to give you a view of what Eric and David are seeing on the near horizon.

Areas of learning from this event:

One: The changing role of design in business, publishing and life.

Two: Finding the style of innovation that fits you or your category. Are you a deliberate process focused innovator or a move fast, break things innovator?

Three: Will design become more important in the age of artificial? Just so you know our bias, we’re on the side of it becoming dramatically more important.