Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

Josh: I view our product as our team and we really really mean it. The product is the team, not Arc itself.

what we do at the browser company is we talk about optimizing feelings. how do we want to make someone feel on the other end of our software? do we want to make them feel Joy? do we want to make them feel fast? do we want to make them feel organized? do we want to make them feel focused? what is the feeling we are trying to evoke a

when I was earlier in my career I was searching for the answers or the way to do things - the binary - and I think anyone that's been doing this for a while learns that it's all nuanced. Silicon Valley has tended so far towards optimizing for graphs and metrics and if we can reel it back in a little bit at least as just one company I think that wil

one tangible example of that is when I was at Facebook I joined in the midst of Snapchat's ascendancy and there was a lot of feelings about how are we doing should we be worried and the way that we would have that conversation would be how many times per week do people share on Facebook... I think we should have been asking what we would ask at the

we have another value of start by asking what could be which is pushing ourselves to be as aspirationally ambitious as possible so the peak feature that you mentioned we just didn't want to solve the problem context switching we wanted to almost blur the line between native and web software and make it feel like a sheet of paper you know and and re