Phil Libin
26 statements across 3 episodes · 12 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2017 by Phil Libin · said 5 times in 5 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Jan 4, 2017 positive
Libin Refuses to Invest in Startups Not Advancing a Star Trek Future
“My entire long-term investment hypothesis is really straightforward. Like, I think the world has two possible futures. Like, there's two directions that the world can go in. The world can become more like Star Trek, or the world can become more like Mad Max. E…”
Jan 4, 2017 positive
Jan 4, 2017 bullish
Jan 4, 2017 bullish
Only a Couple Hundred Famous Bots Will Dominate Globally
“There's going to be a couple of hundred famous bots in the world, and everyone's going to know them, and everyone's going to be able to interact with them, and they're not going to be, it's not going to matter what directories are listed in. They're just going…”
Jan 4, 2017 bullish
Bots Will Disrupt Software by Joining Multi-Human Conversations
“I think it's a major point of disruption. I think that the single biggest change is going to be for the past few decades almost all of our interactions with technology have been one person interacting with some system. So it's been like you using Microsoft Wor…”
Jan 4, 2017 negative
Jan 4, 2017
Oct 26, 2018
Phil Libin replaced himself as Evernote CEO at 400 employees
“And I think the kind of towards the end of my stay at Evernote, you know, I basically decided that I needed to replace myself once we gotten, you know, it's about 400 people that just felt like I just wasn't the problems that needed to be solved at a medium si…”
Oct 26, 2018 bullish
Libin: All Turtles will expand to eight global cities within five years
“So the vision is, you know, in five years, we'll be in eight different cities. We're in three. Now we're opening up the fourth one next year. We'll be in eight cities, eight world cities, each one working on a number of very practical products that solve real …”
Oct 26, 2018
Libin: CEOs face more stress during normal operations than crises
“When things are sharply going wrong, it's actually the part of the job that's, in many ways, the simplest, because you know what you have to do, and then you just do it. And you have like, you have one major objective. The objective is clear. And even if it's …”
Oct 26, 2018 neutral
Oct 26, 2018
Libin: A CEO's core job is constant and uncomfortable over-communication
“The core job of a CEO is just to, like, you just have to repeat yourself over and over and over again. You just have to say the same thing for what feels like literally a thousand times, even though it's may only be a hundred times, but it's the constant over …”
Oct 26, 2018
Libin: A CEO has only three core responsibilities
“You have to make sure you have the right people and you have to make sure there's enough money in the bank. Those are the three things you have to do. No one else is effectively going to do them. It's always those three things. Anything else you do is kind of …”
Oct 26, 2018 positive
Jan 25, 2021 positive
Libin: Most startup boards are stateless, but Roelof Botha maintains context
“Most boards' conversations are totally stateless, meaning that the board members walk in, and they don't remember anything that you talked about before, and you start over. And this is the most frustrating thing for entrepreneurs, because, of course, like, you…”
Jan 25, 2021 bullish
Libin: Within a year, native video startups will redefine meetings
“And obviously, within a year, like, this isn't what video is going to be like. Obviously, It's going to be the next generation of like native to video companies that comes along and says, well, no, we're not trying to recreate the old reality. We're not trying…”
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021 negative
Jan 25, 2021 bullish
Libin: The shift to video communication is a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity
“And for mm-hmm, since I think this is a multi-trillion dollar thing that's happening right now, I think mm-hmm needed to get pretty big, pretty quickly, raise external capital, and so it was a perfect thing to say, okay, yeah, embodying this in a spin-out star…”
Jan 25, 2021 positive
Libin: Digital collaboration tools unlock productivity from introverted team members
“When we went from being in person to doing all of these things, you know, we no longer do brainstorming in a big conference room with, you know, stick stickies, post-it notes, you know, now we do it all on Figma, and actually I started noticing, man, I'm just …”
Jan 25, 2021 negative
Jan 25, 2021 negative
Jan 25, 2021 positive
Libin: Founders should be the worst person at every job function
“So never hire someone whose job you can do better than them. Only hire people, only surround yourself with people that are ridiculously better than you or that are superior to you in their job or other things as much as possible. Like always be the worst perso…”
Jan 25, 2021 negative
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021 negative
Libin: Exceptional talent is global, but opportunity is concentrated near Stanford
“Exceptional talent, like, Mozart-level brilliant, exceptional talent is very, very rare in the world, but it's evenly distributed, and, but opportunity isn't, and so it is bad for the world that so much of the opportunity for crazy, exceptionally talented, cre…”