Gurman: Federighi, O'Brien, Cue, and Joswiak Will Not Succeed Tim Cook
“It's for sure not going to be Craig. It's not going to be Deirdre. It's not going to be Eddie. It's not going to be Jaws.”
Tomer London: Prior founder experience accelerates validation, but PMF requires luck
“I think having multiple founding journeys for me, having Josh and Eddie, having previous startups, it helps you by one, knowing how to avoid some mistakes. So you don't repeat the same mistakes. So for me, like I can give you a bunch of mistakes. We can talk a…”
Gusto co-founders held weekly Friday 1-on-1 feedback sessions from early days
“The thing that really helped us is this idea of like having a weekly founder one-on-one. So what we did is every Friday we had three one-on-ones you know, Josh and Eddie Tom and Josh, Tom and Eddie. And in those conversations and this was from the very, very e…”
Reeves: Gusto co-founder Eddie Kim lived in a closet for five months
“Eddie, Eddie slept and lived in that closet for about five months, and it fit a air mattress you know, like I said, it had a skylight and it was also where my other roommate stored all of her clothes, though, so it was kind of both a natural closet and a quasi…”
Tim Cook and Eddy Cue rejected Iovine's Beats pitch for two years
“I went to see Tim Cook and Eddie, they'll tell you, for two years, every two months. I didn't care. You know how many times they said no to me? Whatever two years and one month is.”
Gusto's co-founders spent five hours every Sunday aligning on company culture
“In the early days, Josh and I, we're meeting together every Sunday for four hours, five hours in, in Eddie's apartment building in San Francisco. And we were just talking about these, exactly these types of things, how to handle these things.”