Always Be Shipping

“I think I saw Tyler mention yesterday, the day before recording this episode, that Beehive is about to get to ten million dollars in ARR, and that's just in 26 months, so just over two years.”

“It seems like differentiation does not happen at the product feature level.”

“Something I just want to add here that's just a fun anecdote is I remember the first time that Tyler came to Austin and I, because Tyler was employee number three or four at Morning Brew, and he had been building all of our internal tools at the company. So th…”

“The first 10 employees in a startup. You should be able to look at them and say to yourself, I think this person will do incredible work for us for a number of years, but ultimately I could see them starting a company of their own.”

“Every company has its core competency, and for its core competency, it has one role that Is most important to deliver on that core competency. At Beehive, it's a full stack engineer. At Morning Brew, it is, it was a newsletter writer. Now it's, you know, write…”

“Because individual engineers can own this entire process end to end, we are constantly building at least a half dozen new features at any given time.”

“Three, we used to have every engineer directly answer support tickets for an hour or two each morning.”

“The way I would describe beehive marketing is they've kind of taken the drop style marketing that fashion brands like Supreme have done over the years, and they brought it to B to B. What they've basically done is because they know their product roadmap going …”