Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
发布时间 2018-11-14 14:45:31 来源
摘要
Brian Donohue - https://twitter.com/bthdonohue - is President of Instapaper - https://www.instapaper.com/ - and a Product Engineering Manager at Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/
You can find him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bthdonohue
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - https://twitter.com/craigcannon
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Topics
00:00 - The history of Instapaper
8:00 - Free competitors enter the market
10:00 - How Brian joined Instapaper
14:15 - Transitioning from paid to freemium
19:00 - Pinterest's acquisition of Instapaper
26:15 - Moving to California
28:45 - Working on Instapaper within Pinterest
32:00 - Spinning Instapaper out of Pinterest
42:15 - Jareau Wadé asks - What types of product integrations could Pinterest have done with Instapaper?
49:45 - Ryan Hoover asks - I’m curious how he and the team balance simplicity with new feature development/product expansion.
54:00 - Raymond Durk asks - I love the rapid reading mode but would also love a voice enabled mode where the Google Assistant or Siri reads it. Speaking of I'd use it on my Google Home to listen to news if that was a skill.
57:20 - Brian Kim asks - Any growth hacks that worked well?
59:45 - Gustaf Alströmer asks - How does it make time for focused time to catch up on everything he saves? What are his best productivity hacks related to this?
1:03:25 - Backpacking
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