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Airtime - Quality backgrounds, screen recorder, + co-hosting for calls | Product Hunt
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Successful AI Use Cases Will Pass 'The Toothbrush Test' : @VMblog
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2025. Read them in this 17th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. By Phil Libin, co-founder and CEO of mmhmm and All Turtles and co-founder and former CEO of Evernote Companies and investors that focus on the design of real-life use cases will be the big winners in AI. Breathtaking demos won't matter as much as the ‘toothbrush test': practical applications that make us better at what we're doing and will be used multiple times a day.
Phil Libin Has Made a Career Out of Business Productivity. Here Are 7 of His Best Ideas
The Evernote co-founder is busy reimagining how tech teams should work–and he thinks you should be too. It’s been years since Phil Libin helmed the organization-apps maker Evernote, but he just can’t resist trying to reshape the exhaustively inefficient business world. This founder is now running two remote companies with a total of 130 employees, and he spends a lot of time rethinking the post-industrial economy for knowledge workers. How do we measure asynchronous productivity?
We raised some more money
Exactly a year ago today, we launched the first private beta of mmhmm. It's been a pretty eventful year, and we're happy to announce that we just raised a $100 million B round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to kick mmhmm up a notch. A few notches. We started mmhmm a year ago as a joke. We were trying to survive being locked down during the pandemic and needed to laugh during interminable Zoom meetings.
No Exit Strategy for Your Life's Work [Entire Talk]
Thoughts and influences from early life continue to shape how Evernote CEO Phil Libin embraces his work. In this wide-ranging presentation, Libin shares key beliefs and provocative insights on startups, acquisitions and company exits. Based on his experiences leading multiple ventures from startup to commercial success, Libin urges entrepreneurs to chase dreams they would actually want to spend their life pursuing.
I'm a tech investor and watching Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony showed me that Facebook is ready to become an adult
In many ways, it felt like a significant milestone for Facebook and our whole industry - a delayed rite of passage into something resembling adulthood. Adulthood is confusing. Naturally, my first instinct was to take to social media with a stream-of-consciousness hot take. Fortunately, my phone battery died, and by the time I got to a charger, I had untangled my thoughts and feelings into seven more or less coherent points: 1. Overall, I'm glad that Facebook exists.
Why Zuckerberg's testimony has me thinking about the kind of world we want to live in
I had conflicting emotions watching Mark Zuckerberg testify before Congress this week. In many ways, it felt like a significant milestone for Facebook and our whole industry—a delayed rite of passage into something resembling adulthood. Adulthood is confusing. Naturally, my first instinct was to take to social media with a stream-of-consciousness hot take.
A better way to build products
The world is suffering from inequality and wasted potential. Many of our friends believe that entrepreneurship is a big part of the answer, but it's clear that the Silicon Valley method just isn't enough. There are too few people in too few places getting to work on far too few types of problems. Luckily, now's a perfect time to make some improvements. That's why we're starting All Turtles, an AI startup studio, to make the next generation of products in a new way.
Freemium Model for SaaS - The Good, The Bad, and The In-between
In 1999, Vistaprint, a four-year-old French startup, launched its internet-based printing services in the highly competitive US market. Going against the popular advice to target the bigger companies (who would spend more money on printing), the Vistaprint team went for the micro businesses (who were then considered as a terrible market, as they were close to impossible to reach).
How to survive your first post-election Thanksgiving
Weird and painful as it is, somewhat less than half the country supports the presidential candidate you hate. This Thanksgiving is probably going to be the first time that you'll have to interact with some of them up close. How should you deal? A "no politics at the table" rule? Unpossible! And even if you do manage to grit your way through dinner, that still leaves hours of dangerous couch time. Have you been spending the past two weeks sharpening your best rhetorical spears in preparation?
If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.
It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what...
There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.
Bots Get Serious: My Two New Investments from General Catalyst
Anyone who’s talked to me in the last few months knows that I’m excited about bots. “But Phil,” I brain-hear you asking, “aren’t most current bots stupendously lame?” Yes, yes they are. The first generation of bots, like the first generation of apps before them, are trivial. That’s because most of them are either experimental toys or were rushed to market with use cases that don’t make any sense.
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A Charge of Bots
I had a sharp moment of clarity in the summer of 2007. After standing in line for four hours at an Apple Store outside of Boston on the day the first iPhone came out, I finally had one in my hand. It felt like a stereotypical Hollywood dream sequence; a long road stretching to the horizon and all of the traffic lights go green at the same time. I imagined I could see a map of how the next five years would unfold. How the whole world would rewrite itself around this new device.
Why Some Startup CEOs Fire Themselves
Evernote CEO Phil Libin's decision to step down came as a surprise. But he's not the only founder who's felt like he's not the right person for the job. CEOs are responsible for doing everything in their power to identify and remove all hurdles in the way of their company's success. And in some cases, that means getting out of the way themselves.
How to Preserve Your Startup Culture: Don't
Part of what everyone loves about startups is their culture. There's the archetypical foosball-table-and-everyone-running-around-in-hoodies vibe, but the pluses of early company culture generally go deeper than perma-casual attire and laid-back office design. Small companies are nimble, human, and exceptionally innovative. So as your company grows, it's key that you try your hardest to hold on to your original startup culture, right?
Why It's Wise to Hire People Smarter Than You
I received this note recently from an Evernote user in Japan: Some of my team members complain that I micromanage. I think they have a valid point, but then I find myself having to tell them how to do even the smallest things. Do you have some general rule in role-sharing? I do. I'll tell you how I discovered it. When I was just getting started as a CEO, I had a stupid way of thinking about employees.
Is My Company Really Worth More Than The New York Times?
My company, Evernote, recently raised a round of funding that valued the business at a little more than $1 billion. There's been a lot of talk lately about the valuations of Internet start-ups and whether they're really worth the prices they're commanding. Unfortunately, much of the discussion seems to be confused about the basic facts. So, as someone fortunate enough to be the CEO of a company that's just become a member of the Billion-Dollar Club, I'd like to try to clear things up a bit.
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