Google Photos Product Lead and Bump Cofounder David Lieb with Gustaf Alströmer
David Lieb is the Product Lead for Google Photos. Prior to working on Google Photos, David was the cofounder and CEO of Bump, which was in the Summer 2009 batch of YC.
https://twitter.com/dflieb
https://photos.google.com/
Gustaf Alströmer is a Partner at YC.
https://twitter.com/gustaf
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
https://twitter.com/craigcannon
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Topics
00:10 - How Bump became one of the biggest apps on the App Store
3:24 - Bump was the billionth app downloaded on iOS
5:42 - David's YC interview
7:45 - Bump's goal during YC
9:40 - Experiments at Bump before working o…
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0:10
How Bump became one of the biggest apps on the App Store
3:24
Bump was the billionth app downloaded on iOS
5:42
David's YC interview
7:45
Bump's goal during YC
9:40
Experiments at Bump before working on photos
10:45
How Bump grew
12:00
How David thinks about product market fit
13:00
Flock and talking with the top users of Bump
17:30
Going upstream in photo sharing, becoming the camera roll
19:00
Being a photo sharing power user and how that helped when building a product
21:40
Fundraising
25:40
Deciding that Photo Roll would work better within a big company and building i
29:10
When building a product, pretend there's a person doing that task for you in t
31:20
How David spends his time running Google Photos
33:15
How David feels about his work at Google after being a startup founder
34:45
When to apply AI
36:50
Attention to the user vs the technology
37:30
Talking to users at scale
40:30
Lamide Akomolafe asks - What did David focus on too much as a rookie product l
42:15
Getting confidence to ship features to a billion users
44:45
Generating support for a project within a big company
46:30
In 5-10 years will David be working for a large or small company?
47:55
When thinking about an acquisition, can you execute your vision in a larger wa
49:40
Larger truths about people learned by paying so much attention to photos and m
51:15
Giving everyone a photographic memory and deciding which photos are impo
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