EP 151 – Wen Shaw – Cooby – Opportunities Always Lie In the Unknown and Unexpected

by Michael Waitze | Nov 3, 2021

ATP was delighted to have Wen Shaw, a co-Founder and the CEO of Cooby, on the show. Cooby enables businesses to take control of their WhatsApp and supercharge it for work.

Some of the topics Wen covered:

Going to California and starting his first company right after grad school
Working at Facebook and Dropbox
The cultural differences between Facebook and Dropbox start with their products
The culture at Facebook encourages moving really fast
Messenger apps versus eMail
Cooby’s value proposition
The idea that enterprises will all adopt messaging apps
Data usage and sales intelligence
A look back at a massive Facebook outage

Other titles we considered for this episode:

It Was Not a Surprise to Anybody
Messaging Is Replacing eMails
Companies Want to Close Deals
They Lose a Lot of Fidelity
Fill In the Gaps, Wherever There’s a Gap
It’s Either the Bank or My Parents

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