Mike Knoop is cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Zapier, which was in the YC Summer 2012 batch. Zapier moves information between your web apps automatically.
https://twitter.com/mikeknoop
https://zapier.com
Kevin Hale is a Visiting Partner at YC. Before YC Kevin was the cofounder of Wufoo, which was funded by YC in 2006 and acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011.https://twitter.com/ilikevests
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon. - https://twitter.com/craigcannon
Knowledge shared:-
- Kevin's intro
- Mike's intro
- How Mike and Kevin met
- Market sizing for consumer software
- Zapier's growth strategy today vs 2012
- Jumpstarting a platform like Zapier
- Building an app directory before building a product
- Applying to YC twice
- Zapier after Demo Day
- Zapier's first remote hire
- Remote companies not being perceived as legitimate
- Noticing remote was working then committing
- Qualities to look for when hiring remote employees
- Nina Mehta asks - What’s the best way to share work and knowledge across designers working on different parts of product without distracting from focused working time?
- Remote mistakes in the early days
- When to change modes of communication to allow for deep work
- When to ask for someone's full attention
- Product and design practices at Zapier
- OKRs for teams vs individuals
- Tools for remote teams
- No internal email at Zapier
- Keeping morale high in a remote team
- What happens at a Zapier retreat
- Remote design critiques
- Serendipity and over optimizing for it
- Setting up a remote company for success
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