The 1.01 Podcast
#10 Royce Branning and Oliver Hill
Cofounders of Clearspace, Royce Branning and Oliver Hill, discuss building a company together after only knowing each other for 4 weeks, doing things that don’t scale with phone checks at social events and turning a no from Y Combinator into a yes.
Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet
Follow Royce on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/rbfasho
Follow Oliver on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/_oliver_hill
Clearspace - https://www.getclearspace.com/
Show Notes
00:45 How did Royce and Oliver meet
02:05 How they come across this screentime problem
03:55 Being part of Founders University to start
05:15 The utility of Y Combinator
07:00 How do two SWEs manage an entire company
08:40 Choosing the breathing screen quotes
09:45 The story of hosting a phone check in at a YC event
12:30 Best reactions to the check in
14:40 Different growth strategies
16:50 ProductHunt #1 and not being another 'tech app'
18:45 Differentiating amongst competition
20:45 Key working habits
22:30 Prioritizing being in person together
23:10 Clearspace in 1 years time
25:30 Getting rejected by YC but writing back and eventually getting accepted.
Cofounders of Clearspace, Royce Branning and Oliver Hill, discuss building a company together after only knowing each other for 4 weeks, doing things that don’t scale with phone checks at social events and turning a no from Y Combinator into a yes.
Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet
Follow Royce on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/rbfasho
Follow Oliver on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/_oliver_hill
Clearspace - https://www.getclearspace.com/
Show Notes
00:45 How did Royce and Oliver meet
02:05 How they come across this screentime problem
03:55 Being part of Founders University to start
05:15 The utility of Y Combinator
07:00 How do two SWEs manage an entire company
08:40 Choosing the breathing screen quotes
09:45 The story of hosting a phone check in at a YC event
12:30 Best reactions to the check in
14:40 Different growth strategies
16:50 ProductHunt #1 and not being another 'tech app'
18:45 Differentiating amongst competition
20:45 Key working habits
22:30 Prioritizing being in person together
23:10 Clearspace in 1 years time
25:30 Getting rejected by YC but writing back and eventually getting accepted.