Designing the Facebook Like Button

Update: 2023-12-14

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🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW?
1. How the iconic Facebook like button was designed?
2. How a designer invested early in startups like Figma, Framer and Diagram?

📢 WHY IS SOLEIO CUERVO A ROCKSTAR?
Soleio Cuervo is a software designer turned investor. He led early design efforts at Facebook, Messenger, then Dropbox. Now he invests in extraordinary software startups and helps them win through great design. He is a proud backer of Figma, Framer, Vercel, Vanta, Perplexity, Synthesia, Read.cv, Pulley, Replit, Universe, Liveblocks, tldraw, Plain, and dozens more startups worldwide!

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
(00:00 ) Interview trailer
(00:50 ) Who is Soleio Cuervo? (software designer turned investor)
(1:23 ) How does a VC deal with FOMO?
(3:09 ) VC shares their framework for deciding who to meet
(6:25 ) How does a VC deal with an overwhelming amount of inbound requests?
(9:15 ) Importance of being diplomatic when saying 'No'
(10:37 ) Soleio Cuervo explains how he designed the iconic Facebook like button
(17:08 ) Investing in Dropbox
(19:23 ) Structuring your week based on initiatives
(20:19 ) How Jayneil gatecrashed a VIP event in San Francisco
(21:17 ) How Drew Houston closes candidates at Dropbox?
(22:19 ) Why raise your own VC fund compared to joining Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz?
(24:57 ) Investing your money into startups or raise a big VC fund?
(28:46 ) Investing pre Series A in Figma
(36:27 ) Why build relationship with a startup team over rushing to write a check?
(37:38 ) Seeing the multiplayer demo for the first time from Evan Wallace at Figma
(39:26 ) Investing in Framer's seed round
(41:56 ) Why did Framer survive through the hard times and multiple pivots?
(43:05 ) Investing Diagram's seed round (acquired by Figma)
(45:49 ) Soleio gives Jayneil career advice
(50:36 ) Why is Jayneil so excited about the research tool Ballpark?

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