Bump co-founder, David Lieb launched an app that’s secured roughly $20 million in funding and has been downloaded approximately 60-million times. In his final Founder Stories interview with host Chris Dixon, Lieb predicts the next hot sector, discusses hiring employees and dishes out advice for future founders.

He’s seen too many founders suffer from “analysis paralysis” and urges entrepreneurs to “stop thinking and just go build it.” Recognizing that if his team had overanalyzed Bump, it never would have gotten off the ground. → Read More

Seeking a way to reduce friction while exchanging contact information, David Lieb and his two co-founders launched Bump – a service that allows users to trade personal data (and an array of items spanning calendar events to music samples) by simply tapping their smartphones together.

In part II of his Founder Stories interview, Lieb notes there is bigger picture at play than just swapping content. He tells host, Chris Dixon, “there is a lot of time spent figuring out how I interface with this [smartphone] to go access the virtual world, but nobody has really spent a lot of time thinking, well I am using this phone in the real world, what do I want to do in the real world, and how do I want to interact with other people and things in the real world, and that is the problem that we want to solve, we want to build that new UI layer for the real world.” → Read More