Phil Libin
Co-Founder & CEO, All Turtles. On 1 show, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Phil Libin is the former CEO of Evernote, which he led from 2007 to 2015 before joining General Catalyst as a Managing Director. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of product studio All Turtles and video platform mmhmm.
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5said about them ↓ Everything Phil Libin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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 …”
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…”
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…”
Libin: Startups aren't serious about talent diversity unless they spend money
“I mean, for businesses, you pretty much, it all comes down to the same tool, which is money. So if you're not spending money on it, you're not serious about it.”
Libin: We pay recruiters specifically to source out-of-network candidates
“So we spend money on recruiters and we specifically tell recruiters that we are paying you money to send us people that are outside of our comfort zones and outside of our networks, because we know plenty of, you know, middle-aged white dudes.”
Libin: A leader's strong conviction does not make a belief more accurate
“Just because I believe something strongly doesn't actually make it any more or less likely to be accurate or true than if some random person in the street believed in it strongly.”
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 …”
Phil Libin: Exceptional talent is extremely rare but evenly distributed globally
“Like, real talent is exceedingly rare, you know, one in a million. But it is evenly distributed throughout the world.”
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 …”
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…”
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 …”
Phil Libin almost entirely stopped using email as Evernote CEO
“I'd kind of stopped sitting and I stopped doing email almost entirely. Like for the past few years of my life, like I had very, very slight contact with email”
Phil Libin Only Invests in Bots With Direct Pay-For-Function Utility Models
“The stuff that we're working on, the stuff that I'm investing in or helping to build, it's all like the, these are bots that do specific functions that people pay for.”
Phil Libin Maintains a Strict Personal Rule Never to Work on Airplanes
“A really quick one is I don't work on airplanes. I made this arbitrary rule where I will not work on an airplane.”
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