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Phil Libin

The co-founder and former CEO of Evernote, who’s now a venture capitalist, wants to see results—not hear you talk about innovation
NOTED Phil Libin co-founded Redwood City, California–based Evernote in 2007 and stepped down as CEO in 2015. He’s now managing director at VC firm General Catalyst.

Your first company dealt in e-commerce, before anyone really used that term. How can founders be ahead of the curve?

There are a lot of people who are much smarter than I am, who are much more

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