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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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