Common Room

“To date, Linda has raised over fifty million dollars with Common Room, from the likes of Danny Reimer at Index, Sarah Grew at Greylock, Dylan Field at Figma, Dick Costolo, and of course, TwentyVC Fund.”

“I reached out to Francis and Baraj on LinkedIn, and they ignored me. I didn't hear back from them at all.”

“One of the things that I'm not a huge fan of is the shit sandwich. Which is this notion that you want to say something nice, and then, you know, give a direct piece of feedback, and then say something nice again. That's not really how I want to communicate, an…”

“Aha moments aren't really a moment, and for me, I think there were really three ingredients to my aha moment in building common room that happened over the course of probably years.”

“I genuinely don't think for what we're trying to do, any company at all is the competition. I really see our competition as inertia, as the way that companies are already doing things, as human nature.”

“Yeah, so it's definitely not a perpetual plan. It is our near-term plan and our plan so far, so probably until the end of this year we'll be looking to bring on board folks who are experienced”

“We never ask our customers for features. We ask them to tell us their problems, and that's how we always start.”

“I think the first angel was Dylan Field at Figma.”

“So we do a core values-based interview where we send the candidate our values, and we say, we're going to ask you questions as part of this interview process that map directly to figuring out whether or not you have these values, whether or not you share these…”

“So right now we're actually thinking about changing two of them because we don't use them very much in our day to day life.”

“One of the most compassionate things you can do in life or in work is to speak the truth and to speak it transparently.”

“We didn't have a website. We hadn't updated our LinkedIns. We had done zero marketing up until we announced Our Series B.”