![]() He has the judgment, the sensibility and the holistic thinking that’s needed to be a founder, not just an engineer. He and I started working together and it was pretty clear to me when I met him, that he was going to be more than an engineer to work with, that he’d be the kind of person I could actually start a company with. I hired this guy Evan Doll from Apple who was on the original iPhone team. The tablet hadn’t happened then, but I started asking myself, “I wonder if I could design a Web-like experience that was sort of rooted in the timeless principles of print, and bring the beautiful photography, the really well done typography, layout and graphic design but have that same sort of power and richness and dynamic of the web.”Īs I thought about this more, I decided to hire an engineer to help me prototype some of these ideas. And it occurred to me on one of these flights – "Why is it that the Internet looks so ugly and the magazines look so beautiful? Wouldn’t it be great if you could take the power of the Internet and the beauty of these magazines and fuse them together somehow?" ![]() I’d be on the plane a lot, and of course all the time I’d buy magazines on the newsstand and flip through them on the plane. I sold the company to Microsoft and about a year ago I had completed the integration, I felt like it was a great time to move on. Mike McCue: I left Tellme, my last company a year ago. SAI: Where'd you get the idea for Flipboard? I can ask him for a meeting with basically anyone in the world, and he’d deliver. "I can still call him up and he would instantly respond. Contrary to reports, John Doerr hasn't checked-out at blue chip VC firm Kleiner Perkins, says Mike.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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