Adam Nash
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. Note: On September 16, 2022, I wrote a post about Figma after the announcement of a $20B acquisition offer from Adobe. As it turns out, that acquisition didn’t happen, but this story deserves to live. So this post has been updated to reflect the journey to...
Adam Nash
A happy engaged couple in their 20s before they figure out how to integrate their finances… (July 2001) Living a healthy financial life is far more difficult than most people believe. For most of us, our education in personal finance is relatively limited. We learn some from our parents and our...
Adam Nash
This blog post was also published on Daffy.org Steve Jobs famously talked about connecting the dots of your life in his now well-known commencement speech in 2005. There’s something incredibly insightful and at the same time humbling about that framing as a founder when you look at the...
Adam Nash
One of the reasons that I am so passionate about entrepreneurship is because of my belief that companies can be highly effective agents of change. This isn’t just a feature of technology companies built in Silicon Valley. Vanguard is an inspiring example, headquartered in Malvern, PA. They are...
Adam Nash
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. On June 25, 2013, Dylan Field, one of my favorite interns from LinkedIn dropped by Wealthfront headquarters in Palo Alto to catch up and get some advice about his new startup, Figma. At the time, I was up to ears with work as the new CEO, trying to sell...
Adam Nash
In 2020, I set off to build a new company. At the time, I never would have imagined that we’d end up building one during the largest pandemic in a century. Lao Tzu said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and I count myself fortunate to have made the best first step...
Adam Nash
When I first joined Greylock at the end of 2011, Fintech wasn’t even a word that was commonly used in the venture capital community. Less than a decade later, however, Fintech has become almost ubiquitous. The category has not only proven that it can generate real revenues and scale, but also that...
Adam Nash
Today, I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined the Board of Directors of Shift, a company that has spent the last 6 years reimagining the used car experience. Shift is a marketplace that buys and sells cars directly from consumers without all the usual shady tactics that run rampant in the...
Adam Nash
Some personal news to share today. After a great tour of duty at Dropbox, I’ve decided to take the leap into something new. Having a January birthday has always added a little weight to my New Year’s resolutions, and as it turns out, 2020 was a big one for me. 45 might not be the biggest...
Adam Nash
One of the fond memories I have of my first two years at LinkedIn was coming into the office almost every Sunday to spend a couple of hours with Reid Hoffman. Our conversations covered a wide range of topics, but the time ensured that we were fully aligned on the strategy of the company and the...
Abhinav
It feels stupid to write this, but at the same time it feels important that this should be written. A lot of people know that Niswey has three co-founders, but in 2018 I realised, most people still don’t. I have been thinking to write about this, ever since my HubSpot CAM (channel account manager)...
Adam Nash
Every time I go to the CODE Conference, I learn something new. There is something about watching some of the most prominent technology executives and founders responding to questions from talented journalists that gets me thinking. Four years ago, I wrote about the transition technology CEOs...
Adam Nash
Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to work in a variety of different functions. No matter whether it is engineering, design, product, or service, every role has its own unique set of requirements and challenges. Maybe that’s why I have always believed strongly that software...
Suma E P
Welcome, dear Festival of Lights! Though you have been simply devalued into a festival of cacophony at all levels one can think of, I will still focus on the Light bit. Because that is what people like me value and find strength in. Every step into the unknown means we traverse darkness till we...
Adam Nash
As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time. On a recent trip out to The Counter in Mountain View, Jordan (who is 8) was really struggling with a large maze puzzle on...
Adam Nash
“Every day stuff happens to us. Jobs arise in our lives that we need to get done. Some are little jobs, some are big ones. Some jobs surface unpredictably. Other times we know they’re coming. When we realize we have a job to do, we reach out and pull something into our lives to get the job done.”...
Adam Nash
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Today, AirBnB announced that it had reached a settlement with the city of San Francisco on how to effectively register and monitor legal listings in the city. I am a huge fan of the company, and it seems like a positive...
Adam Nash
A few years ago, I wrote a few posts to outline the requirements for exceptional product leadership: In “Be a Great Product Leader,” I focused on three key responsibilities: strategy, prioritization & execution. In “Great Product Leaders Win Games,” I focused on deliverables in the first two...
Adam Nash
In 2016, voice-based interfaces exploded into the imagination of the startup community as a potential new consumer platform. Amazon deserves much of the credit for this radical shift, as the Amazon Echo seemed to jump the chasm from early adopters to a more mainstream market. Of course, voice has...
Abhinav
Back in May 2012, Niswey used to work from a shared office space in Connaught Place, Delhi. I used to wake up everyday at 6.30 and reach office by 8.30. Nobody used to reach by then I used to keep a set of keys with me, open the office and start working. We were just 2 people then at Niswey. And...
Abhinav
I often speak to entrepreneurs, mostly budding or who’ve just started. Every now and then I get this question, how do I figure out how much money do I need or how do I find out how much capital/funding should I raise? A few weeks back, I found myself answering the same question when I started...
Abhinav
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at an event where the objective was to spread awareness about Entrepreneurship among students. First of all, kudos to IIT Kharagpur students for starting an event with such an objective. All I can say is that I wish there were such events when I was in...
Andrew Maynard
Last Thursday, the second annual University of Michigan Innovation In Action competition concluded, with six stunning student pitches for startups that could make a significant dent on the health and well-being of communities. It was a great example of what can be achieved at the intersection of...
aaronepstein
“OMG, you know the guy who started Reddit?!” My sister-in-law — a freshman at the University of Maryland — was starstruck, and immediately took to Facebook to tell her friends she was in the same room with Alexis Ohanian. Her roommate responded right away “Where are you?? I’m coming NOW!”...
aaronepstein
“Not everyone’s like you,” he said. “Startups are risky, so not everyone sees that as a viable career path.” But I disagreed - startups aren’t risky. It wasn’t long ago that I was talking to an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Maryland about ways to get more students excited about...
minming
Ron Conway once said: “There’s a billion company created every 3 months. Now, it is every 2 months”. I finally got the chance compile “The Billion Dollar” list. I tried to limit this list to only software tech companies. I also included a couple of near billion dollar companies (~0.7 B and above)....