Mmhmm's Phil Libin: "Hospital clowns to investment bankers”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Phil Libin, founder of Mmhmm, to talk about fasting (3:35), starting the company (5:00), what it does (9:15), the end of the social media ice age (13:20), a trillion dollar shift (17:00), why he’s not worried about rivals copying him (24:30), who uses it (27:00), how he came up with the name (30:45), what goes wrong at startups (34:20), what skydiving taught him (39:35), the new hybrid world (43:30), and why he plans to leave San Francisco (46:30).

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0:00.0	Yeah, technology.
0:02.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	So I think what we're seeing now is this first like native to video products like and I think we're one of them.
0:11.0	And yeah, they're going to change the way.
0:13.0	I think they're going to change the way we do just about everything in life over the next few years.
0:17.0	Hello. over the next few years.
0:26.9	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley,
0:28.9	your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:31.9	I am your host, Danny Fortson,
0:34.2	the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.
0:36.6	Thank you for tuning in.
0:38.8	I have a question for you.
0:42.1	How much time, say, in the last week, have you spent on video?
0:47.5	So it's Zoom, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, even Microsoft Teams.
0:53.8	I have to admit, I don't think I've ever used Teams.
0:56.0	I've used it yet.
0:57.0	I'm trying to avoid it.
0:59.0	But anyhow, for a lot of you, it's a lot of time.
1:03.0	And out here, more and more people are betting on video
1:07.0	as the next big tech wave, kind of like smartphones and before that, the internet itself,
1:13.0	which is coming along to change everything. That's the idea anyway. What do you think? Or do you
1:20.5	think that once the pandemic ends, we'll all just stampede away from Zoom and get back to normal
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