Recode Decode: Why it's OK to be analog in a digital world

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting and running the online framing startup. In this episode: (00:56) Tynan's background at the White House and LivingSocial; (03:53) What happened to LivingSocial; (06:53) Why Tynan started Framebridge; (10:19) The fundraising process; (15:27) Running Framebridge; (21:49) The challenges of being a leader; (25:58) Being a startup now in the era of Big Tech; (27:28) Amazon; (31:18) The move towards analog; (34:10) The weirdest things Framebridge has framed; (36:32) Digital frames and Instagram; (39:10) Finding talent outside Silicon Valley; (42:08) How Framebridge uses robots; (43:40) Meet your new neighbors, Amazon; (46:08) Mistakes and triumphs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	House Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:20.1	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-Large of Recode.
0:25.4	You may know me as someone whose house is decorated with frame printouts of Twitter arguments,
0:29.6	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media
0:33.3	Podcast Network.
0:34.8	Today in the red chair is Susan Tine-In, the founder and CEO of Framebridge.
0:39.2	Before starting the company in 2014 she worked at Living Social, we'll talk about that,
0:43.8	and the Obama White House.
0:44.8	That's quite a resume, Susan, welcome to Recode Decode.
0:47.4	Thanks, I'm excited to be here.
0:48.4	So there's so much to talk about, you know, I unfortunately, you got me on a bad day,
0:52.2	it's the Facebook disaster day, which is like yesterday and the day before, but it was
0:56.7	pretty bad story in the New York Times.
0:57.8	We're going to talk about that being a CEO and sort of tech responsibility, but let's
1:01.6	talk a little bit about yourself and how you started Framebridge.
1:05.0	It's a, you know, there's not many startups started by women, we'll talk about that issue
1:08.1	and why.
1:09.1	I'm sorry you're going to have to carry water for all women, but there we have it because
1:12.3	tech is such a non-diverse place.
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