David Lieb

9 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2024 by David Lieb · across every show →

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Dec 18, 2024 positive

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Early DARPA Grand Challenge Work Spawned Modern Autonomous Vehicles

“Ended up working on what would be the beginning of the DARPA Grand Challenge, which would turn into the self-driving cars that we have today.”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 1:12 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

Dec 18, 2024 neutral

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Google Reassigned the Acquired Bump Team to Google+ on Day One

“Then we showed up. To Google on the first day and there had been a reorg and all of the plans that we had agreed upon with our sponsor were out the window and we were tasked to go work on Google plus the social network.”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 11:23 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

Dec 18, 2024 neutral

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Lieb Secretly Designed Google Photos Despite Orders to Build Google+

“I kind of just didn't do what my bosses asked me to do. And it created a ton of conflict. I was definitely not the model employee. I just kind of did it on the back burner. I would go every day and do my day job, and then in the afternoon, I'd go spend some ti…”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 11:45 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

Dec 18, 2024

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Lieb Conceived Bump During an Accounting Class at Chicago Booth

“The idea that you could Share contact information by taking two phones and bumping them together popped into my head in an accounting class one day.”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 2:39 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

Dec 18, 2024

Assertion Partly supported

Bump Reached 150 Million Users

“We had a hundred and fifty million users of Bump.”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 9:21 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

Dec 18, 2024 negative

Disclosure

Acquirers Saw No Value in Bump, Only the Unreleased Photo Roll

“No one wanted bump. It was not valuable, but this idea of photo roll and the demo that we had built was something that several companies indicated, you know, you might be right.”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 10:54 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

Dec 18, 2024

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Lieb Was Fired Twice From His Team While Pitching Google Photos

“In fact, twice I was a I got fired from the team and told to go find a new role at Google.”

David Lieb Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 13:16 How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator

May 23, 2025 neutral

Insight

Lieb: Tech shifts take years to move past legacy software paradigms

“When mobile came out, the first mobile apps, or a lot of the first mobile apps, were basically just websites wrapped in a native app wrapper, but they didn't take advantage of any of the new technologies available on the mobile phone, like GPS, like multi-touc…”

David Lieb May 23, 2025 ▶ 11:49 How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator

Sep 16, 2025 positive

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Lieb: Google Photos operates at a 90-plus percent gross margin

“And it turns out it's like a 90 plus percent margin.”

David Lieb Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 24:15 Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator

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