Josh Miller on How The Browser Company Started, How to Hire, Arc Search, and Building in Public
Josh Miller on How The Browser Company Started, How to Hire, Arc Search, and Building in Public  
Podcast: The Peel with Turner Novak
Published On: Thu Apr 04 2024
Description: Josh Miller is CEO and co-founder of The Browser Company, which is building a new internet browser. He explains why effective hiring requires caring a lot and trusting your taste and why Arc Search, a default mobile browser, could be The Browser Company’s next act. TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:35) Working for Obama (00:03:55) Giving up 8-figures in Meta stock (00:08:19) Barack Obama’s favorite web browser (00:09:02) Why Arc released a mobile browser (00:10:03) How Josh met Josh Kushner (00:11:26) Becoming an EIR at Thrive Capital (00:12:09) How The Browser Company got started (00:15:51) Why they named it The Browser Company (00:18:49) Pivoting to consumer when COVID hit (00:20:37) Leaving Thrive to join as a Co-founder in February 2020 (00:21:05) Why COVID made browsers relevant (00:22:42) How to hire a great team (00:25:02) Hiring Josh Lee to edit their videos (00:26:52) The biggest difference between Josh as a first-time and second-time founder (00:28:46) Learning to delegate (00:34:03) Why Thrive gave up double-digit equity back to the founders (00:40:18) Launching (00:40:52) Why build a web browser (00:42:17) This history of browsers (00:43:36) Why they’ve gotten worse over time (00:50:26) The reasons people use Arc (00:53:23) How Arc will make money (00:56:45) Why Arc’s existential question is getting people to care about their browser (00:59:47) The story behind Arc Search (01:00:45) Arc’s potential growth flywheel (01:09:17) Why Arc bet big on building in public on YouTube (01:10:16) The publisher backlash to Arc Search (01:11:33) Why praising your team publicly is so important (01:13:39) How Josh hired Nate Parrott More on The Browser Company: https://thebrowser.company/ https://arc.net/https:// www.youtube.com/c/TheBrowserCompany Where to find Josh: Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshm LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-miller-b31259106 Where to find Turner: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak/ Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it/