S10 Bonus: Quinn Li O’Shea, Braid

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Quinn Li started into tech well before college. In High School, she was into fashion and would take pictures of herself and her friends. She wanted to share these pictures, and found her way to Squarespace - which ultimately, led her getting into HTML and CSS - and the rest is history. Outside of tech, she plays a lot of tennis, and teaches Aerial. I had to ask what this was, and she explained it was the art form that you see in the circus, when people are climbing the sheets in the air, acrobatically.

Quinn Li has been focused on productivity throughout her career. As she started to swing her focus to building connections at work through play. One of the games she and her team built went viral on TikTok - and they knew they were on to something.

This is the creation story of Braid.

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0:54.6	HR is facing a couple challenges right now.
0:58.2	New worker expectations primarily.
1:00.6	I think of the future is just leaning into the shift and working with these HR departments
1:04.4	to understand what is it that this newer generation of employees is looking for?
1:09.0	What feels authentic to them and what actually
1:11.1	gets them more engaged and connected at work? And right now that's games, but it could be
1:16.3	some other features or functionality, but I do think the world of expensive on-sites that happen
1:21.2	once a year and 360 performance reviews is the only way to get a pulse on how are people doing,
1:27.5	are they engaged, Are they engaged?
1:28.4	Are they motivated by the work?
1:29.6	I think that is going to pass.
1:31.6	And hopefully, Braid is part of that.
1:33.8	My name is Quinnly O'Shea and I'm the CEO and founder of Braid.
1:40.8	This is Code Story.
1:43.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
1:46.4	It's six months moonlighting.
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