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Shaan Puri

👤 Speaker
7758 total appearances

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My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

I want to ask you about this.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

This was like the most brilliant slide because I'm pretty obsessed right now with, at my company, like getting people to be creative because a lot of times the founder is the creative person, but...

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

that doesn't particularly scale past a certain size.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

You need to empower others.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

You have this really cool slide and you call it the comfort trap.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

And it basically says, there's the tension zone.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

This is where half the team hates what you're doing or hates the name.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

The energy is high, but it's very polarizing.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

And then below that, when things get incredibly familiar, but have very little distinctiveness, that's when things get invisible.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

You're in the invisible zone.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

There's a lot of consensus.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

It's a safe choice.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

And basically, it's not remarkable at all.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

This makes a lot of sense.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

How do you A, convince people just to go with it?

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Like, I know you think this is a bad idea because it's dangerous or it's different, but just go with it.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

And how do you convince yourself maybe to like release things that are polarizing?

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Andy Grove being the former CEO of Intel and he like wrote the book on like management.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Right.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

If you were to run for president, do you think that you could take your naming ability and come up with cool slogans?