Week 8 - What happened to the designers?
This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.
✌🏽Welcome back to Inside Round
Welcome to the eighth edition of Inside Round by AngelList. Every week, we curate the tweets, podcasts, and articles every founder should check out. Let’s get into it…
Reading list
1/ Jacob Jolibois, writer of Making Product Sense, uses Notion as a case study to discuss managing product complexity and how to turn it into value for users. Read here.
2/ Eléonore Crespo, founder of Pigment, shares an awesome early-stage talent playbook for founders. Know what you’re looking for, be generous, be memorable, and more to hire and retain the right people. Read here.
3/ Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company, published beautiful musings on company values “road trips”. Hopefully, this inspires you to start writing, in whatever format takes hold, to better understand your company’s culture and behaviors. Read here.
4/ Tomasz Tunguz, Venture capitalist at Redpoint, breaks down the data on the Bay Area startup scene. “San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. But that’s not the full story.” Read Here.
5/ Shangda Xu, Alex Immerman, and David George of A16Z dive deep into the best ways to understand, evaluate, and decide on funding options when capital isn’t cheap. Don’t let this one scare you, the knowledge is invaluable. Read here.
Thread of insight
Whether your startup has a designer or not, Dan, CEO of Glow and Luma, offers up a key insight that would help any company level up its design. Give it a try!
Listen and learn
We’ve got a double this week folks — enjoy!
1/ Kristen Berman, Co-founder of Irrational Labs, talks to Lenny about how to use behavioral design to influence behavior change and drive engagement. There’s a lot of great insight in this episode. Don’t miss it.
2/ Annie Duke discusses her new book “Quit” and why quitting can be a massive strength instead of a weakness - especially in startups.
Laugh Track
Give some love to your designers this week.