Ben Williamson
person on 1 show · 10 statements across 2 episodes · said 9 times in 6 episodes since 2016
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2016 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan
- He Quit Google To Invent Smart Way to Recruit, Doing Around $50k/mo in Sales, EP 272: Troy Sultan
- Genius Way to Go From Freelance to $100k/Year with Jamie Turner of Sixty Marketer Episode 22
- He'll Help You Get On Stage With Journey, Power Broker to 3,000 A Listers, Billionaires, And Grammy Winners, EP 269: Steve Sims
- From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
- How to Sell an Expensive Course FAST with Sue Zimmerman Episode 24
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Williamson: Engineers Should Leverage Technical Debt When Testing Uncertain Features
“It's useful to be a hacker and use technical debt for your, you know, as leverage. If you're not sure something's going to work, you've got to be willing to throw it away and you don't want to invest too much.”
Williamson: Stanford and Berkeley Grads at Apple Couldn't Fix Production Systems
“When I ended up at Apple, I was working with, you know, all these kids coming out of Stanford and Berkeley that had a lot of theory, but couldn't actually do anything. You know, I'd say, hey, you know, we're doing 360 transactions per second to this MySQL data…”
Williamson: Periscope Data gives Yo Shirt more operational insight than suppliers have
“It's periscopedata.com, and it basically, Nathan, I have better insight into suppliers we work with. I have more insight into their business than they do. And it's because I have real time data.”
Ben Williamson rejects hypothetical $10M cash buyout offer for Yo Shirt
“I don't know, Nathan. I think that's a little low.”
Williamson: Yo Shirt generated $3M in top-line revenue in 2015
“So total top line revenue in 2015 was three million dollars.”
Williamson: Yo Shirt reached over 3M lifetime downloads
“All in over the life of the app is over three million people that have downloaded the app. There were two million last year.”
Williamson: Snapchat UI has strong product-market fit for its core audience
“What I've realized about their product is that it speaks to the audience very, very well. If you watch a Use Snapchat. They know the app inside and out. And it's intuitive to them, but it's speaking to their customer. And it's not something, you know, that you…”