Evernote’s CEO on the New Ways We Work

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🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Phil Libin discusses the impact of technology--from Microsoft Word to wearables--on our collaboration and productivity.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBRIDIA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm
0:23.1	Nicole Torres. I'm
0:34.1	I'm joined on the phone today by Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote.
0:37.5	Phil, thanks for joining us.
0:39.1	Thank you and really nice to be with you.
0:41.3	So there are so many tools and apps out there that shape how we collaborate and stay
0:45.1	productive and Evernote is one of those tools.
0:48.1	There are now more than 100 million users around the world using your app, but can you first
0:52.4	tell our listeners more about
0:53.6	what Evernote is? Well we are a workspace we are basically an integrated way
0:58.7	where you can do all of your writing and communicating about the stuff that you're working on.
1:04.3	And it seems like Evernote has picked up where earlier software, like Microsoft Office and
1:08.6	AOL Instant Messenger, left off.
1:11.1	How have you guys built on those tools?
1:13.2	Well, I think a lot of the old
1:15.4	metaphors for what it means to be productive are really shaped by this very
1:19.4	physical world ideas. You know, probably the start of our industry of, you know, productivity
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