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“Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. He wasn't really an architect, but he, I think, taught in Berkeley. He has these interesting thoughts about building things and he focuses on buildings and towns and these kinds of spaces, but I think there's a lot of things that are also interesting for building software. The other book that I like is the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, because it also talks about the quality of things and I think that's one of the main themes of the book. The thing is also that quality is so hard to define. If you actually start thinking about it, it's like, how do you define it? It's really hard to pin down, but it's like when you try something or see it, then you know if it's quality or not.”
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“The other book that I like is the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, because it also talks about the quality of things and I think that's one of the main themes of the book.”
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“I think that's such an interesting insight, especially that first thing you said around how the more often and the more crowded the spaces, the more opportunity there is for design to be a differentiator.”
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“You're building a very special company in a really unique way, and I think many founders and many product builders can learn a ton from watching you operate in the business that you're building.”
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“I think sometimes when companies specialize roles a lot it's because it's more efficient.”
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“Probably the only thing I would say is it's the hiring front that you really need to spend more time on it.”
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“I think traditionally, I feel like in companies, how do you get more scope is that you advance in the levels of the company because there's a lot of different teams and different levels.”
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“I think I haven't necessarily fully figured it out, but I also figured it out, that hiring and delegation helps with this, that if you can find other leaders that can take on certain areas, that's helpful.”
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“I don't think there's any complicated processes. And so I think one of the things, I was in YC in 2012 and one of the main things they say there is what you should be focusing on when you build a startup is talk to customers, build the product, exercise.”
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“I think we are always happy to assist on those things, if you just want to try it out and try it with the team, we can help you to set it up and help you to understand how to use the product.”
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“I think maybe the countering to do things is that, actually, if you're doing really well in some category, just double down on that.”
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“Just one more question along these lines, there's other companies like Stripe I think waited until 200 employees to hire I think their first product manager.”
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“Your founders had a bit of a following, so I think that helped build up the initial wait list.”
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“The other is I think you need a really high caliber team that's very product-minded and the hiring bar needs to be very, very high for say engineers and designers to want to do all these things and be good at them.”
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“I'm not sure if I discovered them recently, but recently in this home office, I've been installing some of these hue lights and I really like them, because throughout the day, I can have more harsh lighting, because I'm in meetings or something, and then in the evening, I can change the temperature.”
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“I think in some ways we want to make the PM's job easier in that they have to spend less time managing everything or the day-to-day because the engineers are actually using the product and they're updating the things.”
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“I think didn't have that much time, because we decided to do an easier thing, which is a summer drink recipe, so I think people made matcha drinks and some coconut drinks or white iced tea, or something.”
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“I think initially it was just a very manual process, but eventually we built this invite tool that we could just send invites.”
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“I know some people paid $28 per seat and some people pay $1, but it doesn't matter, we just wanted to test the functionality and see what people think.”
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“I think that what the productivity software is trying to do is make people productive. And I think what productive means is you actually do something that matters for the company, which is, I don't know, build some new feature or fix something or design something.”
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“I think the company and you need to be okay that sometimes we make mistakes and we made the wrong choice and then we just can fix it.”
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“I think I made some points like why the quality is important for certain products and you should all believe in that and then instill that with everyone you hire.”
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“I think since we were able to build a business pretty early on, we've been able to be in this position that actually we haven't spent any money on building the business.”
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“What happens is whenever there's a new paradigm, I don't know, like the mobile or the web or something the first iterations of those products existing there, they don't have to be super well designed necessarily because they are the first.”
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