Digits
company on 2 shows · 13 statements across 4 episodes · said 191 times in 20 episodes since 2020
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- 20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- 20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
- 20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
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2020 117 mentions in 12 episodes 10 per episode
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
- 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- 20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- 20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- 20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
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13 statements about Digits, every show
Seibert: AI will be commoditized quickly without disrupting existing software pricing
“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 …”
Fenton: Accounting startups win just by making the product somewhat enjoyable
“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…”
Digits raised from 72 angels, including Box, GitHub, and Twitter CEOs
“We actually had 72 angels in digits. And these are the CEOs of Box, it's Aaron, of GitHub, it's Nat, of Twitter, it's Dick Costolo, et cetera.”
Digits Raised Over $32M From Benchmark, GV, and Angel Founders
“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…”
Corporate Finance Software Competitors Require 16 Weeks to 14 Months Onboarding
“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…”
Digits Averages Five to Seven Minutes for Ad-Hoc Internal Meetings
“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.”
Paired Buddy Systems Remove the Need for Scheduled Meetings at Digits
“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…”
Digits Requires a Take-Home Work Sample for Every Job Role
“For the skill side, we have used basically a take-home work sample, a take-home challenge that we use for every single role.”
Digits Has Only Fired One Employee Since Its Founding
“We have let one person go in the life of the company, but it's just one.”
Minimizing User Cognitive Load Often Requires Maximalist Software Design
“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…”
Digits Holds Over 10 Years of Runway After Raising $33M
“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…”
A Large Portion of Crashlytics' Original Team Now Works at Digits
“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.”