21: Startup Lubricant (feat. Bin Chen)

This episode, we talked tea with Boba Guys and Tea People co-founder Bin Chen! He's had one of the most unique design careers we've ever heard of and he tells a really great story - which made this episode especially fun for us. Hopefully, you'll dig it too!

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Bin on the Web

• Twitter
• You Might Find Yourself
• Boba Guys
• Tea People

Show Notes:

3:30 - Beer!

• Muscat Oolong
• Black Sands Brewery

5:00 - What are you working on?

• Timbuk2
• Tea People
• Andrew Chau
• Boba Guys Blend #1
• Ken Ken Ramen
• Mission Mission
• Biddenly
• Ajay Nainani
• Biddenly Kickstarter

15:30 - Tea People and Boba Guys' Culture

• Horchata
• Boiling frog
• Patagonia
• Kaizen
• Yvon Chouinard
• Sheryl Swoopes
• Boba Guys Nashville Pop-up
• The Buffer Culture
• Myers-Briggs Personality Test

26:30 - Differences between digital design and brick and mortar

• Square
• Net Promoter Score
• Twilio
• Twitch
• Pure Milk Tea
• Sprig
• the Boba Guys branding & aardvark
• Blue Bottle Coffee
• Ritual Coffee
• Four Barrel Coffee
• boba straws
• LLAP emoji

37:00 - How Bin got into design...

• Aqua-zyme
• Realmedia
• Adobe Premiere 1.0
• Adobe ColdFusion
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• McCann-Erickson
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
• Foot pedal for toilets
• Google Patent Search
• Vimeo
• Ben Brown
• Michael Eisner
• John C. Jay
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Wieden & Kennedy

53:00 - Generalism vs Specialty

59:00 - Managing vs Individual Contribution

• John Maeda
• Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
• Beautiful Soup
• Square Kitchen Tickets

1:07:00 - Scaling in digital vs physical space

• Shyp
• ShipStation
• Alite