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“Also, I'll mention, so before I had Brian Chesky on the podcast, I asked you, "What should I ask Brian?" And you asked me to ask him basically about founder mode, which was the first time I think you talked about it, and now it's like this whole thing.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think a lot of founders don't actually tell you the things they're going through.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Although certainly, in my experience that I did get in periods where I was just sad and angry all the time.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“" At some point you end up blowing that up as a founder, and that was certainly my experience.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think one of the big challenges or lessons from this whole period is that one, is as part of the problem we had with competition, and this chapter two was external, but a lot of it was internal, where we couldn't organize ourselves effectively.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think there's benefits to that, but what I've grown to appreciate a lot more is over time is this thing or the experience and the journey of starting a company can really be of forge for a better character or there's transfer.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Well, I think first thing is I think a theme that's carried throughout a lot of these different chapters is you have to figure out what game you're playing and what the rules are when the game keeps changing.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Well, if we think we're selling a commodity, try literally selling paper towels.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We got the product to this many users, we got it to where we got this valuation, or let me back up. So my whole life, or it's common, I think for a lot of founders, especially if you get good grades and stuff, you follow pretty linear path from childhood, from first get the right test scores, then get into the right college, get into the right college, take the right classes, get the right internship, get the right job.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Because everybody's got strengths and weaknesses, but as CEO, both your strengths and your weaknesses are massively amplified and a lot of blind spots in your personality can become huge cultural dysfunctions in the company.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Then obviously after ChatGPT, not only can you do conventional search, but you can ask questions in natural language, and answer a lot of the questions that ChatGPT can't because it's not connected to your stuff.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Dropbox is on fire. And then, there's the second era that I think fewer people know about, which I'll just say, everyone was trying to kill you.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“The single most important impactful thing for me has been reading because talk about this micro, macro, meta games or abstractions, this is the kind of stuff you can learn from history.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Not just photos, but video. And so they just totally nuked our business model in ways that were bad enough in terms of just their obvious impact, but even worse because it was so easily anticipated.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“And the Dropbox products had stagnated. And I started to learn the hard way that, okay, yeah, I now understand what Bill is talking about, because we were hiring all these smart people, but the things we would do as a company would seem really stupid.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think as a civilization, we're going to, hopefully in 5 or 10 years be like, "Man, we took this crazy detour where we basically hooked up that brain power to this thing that was just burning off half of it as friction with our tools.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast