Gabriel Weinberg
10 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2020 by Gabriel Weinberg · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Feb 14, 2020 positive
Over 90% of consumers express privacy concerns, but only 30% act
“We're seeing 90% plus actual decent education concern rates about basic online privacy things, and about 30% in the U.S. And other major markets are people who have actually tried to take some significant action to protect themselves online.”
Feb 14, 2020 positive
Profitability frees founders to focus on long-term product and growth
“Being profitable really, one opens up a lot of opportunities and takes fundraising risk off the table, but B kind of clears your mind a bit. So like people spend a lot of time focused on budgets and fundraising and all these different things. And when you're p…”
Feb 14, 2020 positive
Founder secondary liquidity enables greater long-term risk-taking
“From my perspective, I think it definitely makes sense because some of these founders, and, you know, myself included, have a lot of their net worth tied up into the company, and people are going after big visions, like, I'm already 12 years into DuckDuckCo, r…”
Feb 14, 2020 positive
Gabriel Weinberg personally drafted Do Not Track legislation in 2019
“We actually spent time, and I personally, drafting a do not track legislation last year, and that's an example of what I think is a very simple but effective mechanism to help address the data monopoly issue, and what that is is, in every browser right now, th…”
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Gabriel Weinberg bootstrapped DuckDuckGo for four years before 2011 Series A
“When I started DuckDuckGo, I just had that mentality, and so also bootstrapped that for the first four years, and, you know, really didn't take venture until our series A, which was in 2011, so 11 years into my whole startup career.”
Feb 14, 2020 positive
DuckDuckGo became profitable quickly and never spent its venture capital
“We set out to raise money just to give us some buffer, basically. Ended up being that we became profitable pretty quickly and didn't really use any of the money that we ever raised, but it really helped free up the mentality that we could take bigger risks.”
Feb 14, 2020 positive
Distributed teams must build formal communication processes at 15 employees
“Now, a lot of those processes get developed as you're a much bigger company and you hear about companies who are 50 to a hundred to a 150 employees kind of breaking down in communication and having to start all over and develop those bigger company processes. …”