daily active users

also referred to as: dau · daus

5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 17, 2017 by Kevin Chou · across every show →

Everything said about daily active users, oldest first

Mar 17, 2017
Insight
Chou: Standard consumer metrics like DAU and MAU fail in gaming
“Looking at day one, day seven, day 30, day 90, day one 80, day 365, none of these metrics. Really tell the right, you know, story, nor does looking at DAU, and certainly not MAU. So some of these kind of common metrics that other kind of consumer services use …”
Kevin Chou Mar 17, 2017 ▶ 12:58 20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
May 24, 2019 negative
Insight
Collin: Founders should not switch update metrics when performance drops
“The first one is you should choose the metrics that you will track and you should not change them. Too often I've seen entrepreneurs For example, track revenue, and then maybe revenue is not going as well as expected, so all of a sudden we'll switch to DAUs be…”
Mathilde Collin May 24, 2019 ▶ 9:32 20VC: Front's Mathilde Collin on Why Discipline Is More Important Than Vision, The Right Way To Approach Investor Updates and Director Reports & How To Effectively Structure 1-1s
Oct 26, 2022
Insight
Sahgal: Growth teams should prioritize retention over daily active users
“Daily active users is so, so downstream, and by itself, it really does not mean anything. So really, you don't want to focus on daily active users. You want to focus on way more upstream metrics, like retention, or even more upstream than that, what drives ret…”
Vaibhav Sahgal Oct 26, 2022 ▶ 31:32 Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Gotthilf: Daily Active Users was always Duolingo's sole North Star metric
“The north star metric for Duolingo at all times was daily active users. That's it. DAU.”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 20:48 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gotthilf: Duolingo measured PR success directly using daily active users
“So for Duolingo, it was DAUs. Like if we were actually able to get new users that became active users, that was our success metric, because then we knew that we were reaching the right audience and that, you know, the story that was told was the story that we …”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 47:16 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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