21: Startup Lubricant (feat. Bin Chen)

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! Sponsors IconFinder – Promo code ‘ROBOT’ for 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro! Iconfinder's Definitive Guide to Apple Watch Icons 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