Is the 100 year startup possible?

Phil Libin, mmhmm

Joining me is one of my favorite entrepreneurs. His name is Phil Libin. He was the head of Evernote which was a phenomenal company and I remember hearing Phil say he was building a hundred year startup. I really was excited about that idea and so I invited him here to ask him why he left Evernote.

He has moved on to create a company that is making video so much better online. It’s called mmhmm. I’m going to ask him about mmhmm and also All Turtles, his startup studio.

Phil Libin

mmhmm

Phil Libin is the co-founder of mmhmm, which lets users make great video presentations.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner.

I’m the founder of Mixergy where, whoa, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me is one of my favorite entrepreneurs. His name is Phil Libin. Uh, when I started Mixergy, I used software that he ran to basically run the whole operation. He was the head of Evernote and boy, they did such a good job of organizing our notes on guests, of allowing me and my team to collaborate of all kinds of stuff.

They were phenomenal. And he was saying that he was building a hundred year startup, and I really was excited about that idea that not, not just jumping in and out of a company and selling it off, but actually building it up for our users. So anyway, I added a lot of stuff to it. I loved it. And when he left, that was a little sad, and I wanna find out about that.

He moved on to create a company that is making video so much better online. It’s...

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