Design Details

21: Startup Lubricant (feat. Bin Chen)

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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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

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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
                    • ...more
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