The Browser Company

“This past January, a couple months ago, we have started removing me from a lot of the product development process, which seems to be really healthy.”

“We actually think about it not as a we're focusing on the user experience over revenue or growth. We in fact picked a category of software we're focusing on brand and user experience is how you get growth and revenue.”

“So actually what's really cool about these values, if my memory serves me, I believe every single one with the exception of maybe a word or two was something that someone on our team said. So we interviewed the entire team and then these were meant to be a mir…”

“Our goal of interviews is to convince people not to join the browser company. We don't, if I have an interview with someone, I don't pitch them. I say, what do you want to ask me? Anything you want. I'll be super honest. Most people shouldn't want to work here…”

“I think it will almost definitely happen with us. And again, this goes back to the assume you don't know.”

“We don't have PMs at the company. I'm my, you know, my title at Facebook was product manager. I love product management, but we view it not as a team. We view it as a leader, a role on a project, on an effort. And depending on the projects, different types of …”

“And for the past eight months or so, we've been growing over 10% every single week.”

“Do not think that will continue. If anyone is listening, I would be shocked if we continue like that for another eight months”

“Don't care about web browsers. I've never cared about web browsers. I never wanted to build a web browser.”

“When you give something a new name, It sheds a lot of preconceived notions of what the thing should be. We found that even with product. So if you say you're building a browser history feature, then people, the benefit is everyone knows what you're talking abo…”

“So for example, we don't have a growth team. And we have no semblance of growth projects.”

“We just hired someone named Peter Vidani. When I was 20 building consumer social software, he was like the coolest, most impressive person. He was the first designer at Tumblr, ran the design team at Tumblr for seven years. and the most recently was SVP of de…”

“We hired someone named Darren, who, as I mentioned, he co-created the first prototype of Chrome and then ran it for six teen years. I think, you know, hundreds of not thousands of people reported him. He joined the browser company as an IC.”

“So once again, we don't look at DAU retention. We don't look at weekly active user retention. We really just look at D five D seven retention. Depending on the cohort, that's somewhere between low to mid thirties and low forties.”

“The intention with these, the building and public experiments are radical trust building, not radical transparency. We can't share everything, but radical trust building. You get to know us as humans.”

“My interviews are all ask me anything and I find what people ask and how they follow up is as revealing about who they are and what they care about than anything I could ask them.”

“I think that they do such a good job of, like, amping you up for not only, like, the larger change that they're trying to make in terms of, you know, personal operating system, but of showing you to what extent their team thinks about the details of the produc…”