Recode Decode: Four magic words for entrepreneurs: ‘Do your fucking job.’

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Scott Belsky, a venture partner at Benchmark and the chief product officer at Adobe, talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about his book, "The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture." In this episode: (02:32) Why Belsky came to California and started Behance; (07:14) Bootstrapping, taking investment and selling the company; (10:44) Leaving Adobe to join Benchmark; (14:53) Returning to Adobe; (18:36) Belsky's new book; (21:20) The difference between starting a company and keeping it going; (26:05) Belsky's favorite lessons from the book; (30:37) How he became an early investor in Uber; (33:54) Pinterest and other investments; (38:56) What would Belsky change about the startup world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.4	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, the editor at Large of Recode.
0:56.8	You may know me as a star of advisor and my number one piece of advice is just to quit now
1:00.8	because Facebook is probably going to copy you.
1:03.0	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode
1:06.0	from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:08.0	Today, I'm passing the show over to Recode Senior Finance Editor, Teddy Schleifer.
1:12.3	He interviewed Scott Belsky, the chief product officer of Adobe,
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