Digits

“When I do the product experiences at Digit and different flows and different things to think about, I'm building product experiences that try to give the users the best experience with the least amount of thinking, the lowest cognitive load. So these result in…”

“For the skill side, we have used basically a take-home work sample, a take-home challenge that we use for every single role.”

“And so I think the key differentiator here is yes, we've raised thirty three million. We aren't spending it. The big mistake people make is they scale their burn sort of in proportion to their raise. And we haven't. We've kept our team super small and lean. We…”

“We have let one person go in the life of the company, but it's just one.”

“We were very, very thoughtful with how we built the Crashlytics team. And believe it or not, a large portion of that team is now the Digits team, and we're still working together nine years later.”

“We have those three meetings, and then nothing else on the calendar, and everything else is ad hoc, and so I'd say our average meeting length is probably five to seven minutes.”

“We ended up with 72, and this gives us 72 different perspectives to build out the product for, and we want to be able to support Different industries, and those 72 represented 35 of the broadest industries that we could find.”

“The way this works is we do what's called a buddy system, so every project every week is tackled by two people, some two to four people, but usually two people, and the reason is it's because you're remote, right? Instead of sort of working by yourself in your…”

“To date, Wayne and Jeff have raised over thirty-two million dollars for Digits, from some of the best in the business, including Peter Fenton at Benchmark, and Jess Verrilli at GV, and then also the most incredible base of angels, with the founders from Box, G…”

“Our competitors, other people that are in the space, they're out there and they're touting that it's so quick to set up. They can get set up in as little as 16 weeks. And that's weeks. That's one of the fastest we found. Others take months or like as little as…”

“When Uber was going against the taxi industry, the NPS scores on taxis was so bad, right? Like even if Uber was mediocre, it would still be way better. And he said accounting gave him the exact same vibes. Like the status quo is just so bad that if you can mak…”

“So this may be just me, but I very much see AI as a tool, not a product. And so it's a technology. It's like your database. It's like Memcash back in the day, and so because of that, I don't think it'll change how people price in specific industries. Like, if …”