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Garg: The company cracking food personalization will win the sector long-term
“I still today think that the power of personalization, what Amazon brings to e-commerce and what Netflix and Spotify bring to movies and music. That level of personalization has not taken off in food. And just like Google with search, the company that cracks i…”
Ooshma Garg Sep 8, 2018 ▶ 18:13 A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
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Reno: Most users choose subscription services to avoid being tied down by ownership
“The reality is most people are using Feather and companies like us whether it's, you know, Rent the Runway or Uber or Lyft or Spotify, et cetera, because they don't necessarily want to own things and have things tying them to a physical space.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 5:19 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
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French-Owen: Segment allows individual engineering teams to self-organize without mandated processes
“For us we don't have any set process that teams have to follow at segment kind of individual engineering teams, sort of like what Spotify does are able to self-organize. They're able to run however they want. If they want to do sprints, that's cool. If they wa…”
Calvin French-Owen Oct 10, 2018 ▶ 38:39 Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
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Blumberg: Gimlet is unlikely to build its own podcast platform
“It seems less likely that if we were ever going to build like our own platform, that seems less and less likely. Like just because, you know, the Spotify's and the tune-ins and the Apple's are definitely like for a while, like they weren't really paying attent…”
Alex Blumberg Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 30:07 Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media · Y Combinator
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