Brian Donohue
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2018 by Brian Donohue · across every show →
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Nov 14, 2018
Donohue: Instapaper preserves simplicity by hiding power-user features
“Our strategy for simplicity with new feature development, and it's not a great strategy, is we just hide all the features. We put them kind of in hidden places. And I think our idea and our philosophy behind it is the people who want those features are gonna g…”
Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018
Instapaper raised $80,000 from friends and family for spinout
“So we raised 80,000 dollars from friends and family. Very ragtag, like six people. So to kind of give you the average size, I think the largest check was from me, which was 13,000. And then most of the people had 10, some people put in five.”
Nov 14, 2018 bullish
Donohue: Capital invested in Pinterest yielded better returns than funding Instapaper
“The reason being is that treating it as a business unit, I just felt that every dollar put into Instapaper could maybe return 70 cents a dollar. Like, it would be pretty challenging to, like, have it kind of be an investment that had a solid return. But I felt…”