Facebook Messenger
part of Facebook
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2016 by Kate Shillo · said 20 times in 11 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (7), Annie Kadavy (3), Mike Duboe (2), Kate Shillo (2), Suchit Dash (1), Steven Galanis (1), Rick Marini (1), Peter Pham (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- 20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures
- 20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- 20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Facebook Messenger, oldest first
Jan 13, 2016 positive
Shillo: AI messaging will enable direct transactions in Twitter and Messenger
“This technology will, through artificial intelligence, will allow those companies to be able to communicate on those platforms using, ah, transactional cards, which will be really exciting. So you could actually transact right there in Twitter and Facebook Mes…”
Jun 22, 2016 positive
Kadavy: AI bots will exist everywhere across existing platforms, not standalone
“My hypothesis is that at least at the beginning for sure, and I think going forward, they will live everywhere. One bot, I should think of a bot like I think of a contact person. It should be in my contact list. It should be in my Facebook messenger. Maybe it'…”
Mar 7, 2023
Schultz: Unbundling Messenger Caused an Initial Usage Dip Before Major Growth
“The first countries we did it in were Portugal, I think, and Romania, and we saw a tremendous increase in usage. Initially, there was a dip in usage, and then we saw a rebound and a tremendous increase because people had the expectation they'd get an instant r…”
Sep 13, 2023
Dash: Dubsmash offloaded video hosting to WhatsApp and iMessage to save cash
“We couldn't do things like host video, so we did a bunch of lightweight hacks, like the whole product was a creator app. You could just send a video, and because we couldn't host video because it was too expensive, we just sent it to WhatsApp, Facebook Messeng…”