{"id":21381,"date":"2013-07-29T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21381"},"modified":"2013-07-29T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:36:05","slug":"ten-questions-with-evernote-ceo-phil-libin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/ten-questions-with-evernote-ceo-phil-libin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten questions with Evernote CEO Phil Libin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wired<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/07\/evernote-10-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Tate<\/a> sat down to talk to Phil Libin of Evernote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evernote is known for its eponymous note-taking app, a seemingly modest piece of software that has brought in a heap of money. Evernote has topped 10 million downloads in the iOS and Android app stores and accumulated more than 65 million users across its mobile, web, and desktop versions.<\/p>\n<p>CEO and serial tech entrepreneur Phil Libin used to bristle when people would refer to Evernote as a digital notebook. He sees the product as an extension of the mind, albeit one that\u2019s only about 5 percent complete. These days, though, he\u2019s learned to embrace the pigeonholing. After all, it was humble note-takers who brought Redwood City, California-based Evernote to profitability in 2011 by upgrading en masse to a premium version that includes optical character recognition (handy for pictures of business cards and receipts) and collaborative note editing (great for workgroups).<\/p>\n<p>This year, Evernote is in the red again as the company scales up to reach Libin\u2019s bigger ambition \u2014 becoming something like Microsoft Office for mobile devices. Or, as Libin put it in an hourlong interview with <em>WIRED<\/em>, \u201clike Nike for your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evernote\u2019s staff of 330 is divided into teams of no more than eight members \u2014 small enough, as Libin sees it, to sit around a dinner table and have a single conversation. No team project can last more than nine months, and none of the teams share any code, which is something close to sacrilege among the software priests of Silicon Valley. One recent sunny Friday, while programmers behind him raced to rewrite the iPhone and iPad versions of Evernote from scratch, we pelted Libin with questions about the past, present, and future of his company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired&#8216;s Ryan Tate sat down to talk to Phil Libin of Evernote: Evernote is known for its eponymous note-taking app, a seemingly modest piece of software that has brought in a heap of money. Evernote has topped 10 million downloads in the iOS and Android app stores and accumulated more than 65 million users across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,15],"tags":[675,58,27,547,92],"class_list":["post-21381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology","tag-android","tag-internet","tag-iphone","tag-smartphones","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5yR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21383,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions\/21383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}