Chieh Huang
15 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 22, 2021 by Chieh Huang · said 7 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 7 mentions in 1 episode
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Feb 22, 2021 positive
Boxed guaranteed employees will not lose jobs solely due to automation
“What we committed for everyone here is that you weren't going to lose your job solely because of automation. You will have to be retrained. You will have to learn how to operate, how to service the state of the art machines and work alongside of them.”
Feb 22, 2021
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Feb 22, 2021 neutral
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Feb 22, 2021 neutral
Feb 22, 2021 neutral
Founders focus on company runway but often ignore personal financial runway
“And also, I think the key was that a lot of entrepreneurs don't think about is your personal runway. And so you talk, you know, everyone talks about their company runway, how much money they're going to raise, et cetera. But the early days, you're probably not…”
Feb 22, 2021 neutral
Feb 22, 2021
Boxed founders negotiated the purchase of boxed.com domain for $35,000
“And so we emailed him and said, well, buy this domain. Would you want to sell it? And he's like, I forgot it was like 200 grand. And we're like, we'll give you 30. And he's like, no way. And we said, come on, you sat on it for so many years. We'll write you a …”
Jun 24, 2021 negative
Huang: Founders harm companies by packing boxes instead of leading
“For every moment you are there packing a box, you're actually doing the company a disservice because you've graduated past that. You now have hundreds of people in your charge, and you need to do the things that they can't do themselves and that they, that you…”
Jun 24, 2021 neutral
Huang: Offhand comments from CEOs inadvertently trigger massive organizational pivots
“Sometimes as a co-founder, or as a CEO, as a leader, Sometimes by just saying a few things, the entire organization tries to pivot around kind of what you just said, and so realizing that, listen, like, I'm just trying to help the team, and sometimes by helpin…”
Jun 24, 2021 negative
Huang: Remote work accelerates burnout by eliminating casual post-meeting relationship repair
“The lesson that I learned was really that if you think about kind of everyone as being a battery, by being completely remote, I think you discharge the battery at a very, at a much faster rate. For most folks at our very core, We're social human beings. Like, …”
Apr 16, 2026 neutral
Apr 16, 2026
Huang: Founders Should Take Dilution Because Startup Outcomes Are Binary
“I think it's okay to take outside capital. Because most businesses, the end result and the quote unquote end result for the founder, most businesses are quite binary. Like, meaning that this is going to be really big, like we're going to see Surfing Cow and Se…”
Apr 16, 2026
Huang: Early Boxed Recorded Zero Orders for Two Consecutive Days
“One of the folks that quit his six-figure paying job to join the dream and sit in my garage called and said, dude, I refreshed the page over and over. It's not broken. We got zero orders today. This dropped down to zero two days in a row.”