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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Friendster comes up
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 27:47 Cliff Weitzman Facebook came as a second to Friendster, and now in MySpace, and now they're not second.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:10 Harry Stebbings Friendster and Myspace and everything before it had been, bluntly,
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:20 Anish Acharya So we had the cycle where you sort of had the friendsters and then two or three years later you had the Facebooks, right?
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:20 Martin Casado There was MySpace, there was Friendster, and then MySpace before that,
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:04 unnamed speaker We were, like, MySpace, there's, like, HiFriends, Friendster.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:44 Victor Lazarte You know, like, Facebook was not the first social network, like, when Zuck built Facebook, there was, ah, MySpace and Friendster before it, right? 2 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:47 Hussein Kanji There was also Friendster before, before Meta, but it never really succeeded.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:06 Klaus Hommels I was following the social media stuff, as there was a company called, um, Xing in Germany, and there was, like, Friendster, 3 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:58 Kevin Hartz I'd bring back Friendster.
Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:14 Ruchi Sanghvi Um, there was Friendster that was bigger, and we eventually beat out all that competition, um, to become the predominant platform.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 21:44 Eugene Wei You know, we had the MySpaces of the world, the Friendsters.
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 26:10 Jeremy Liew I think largely because that's what Friendster chose to do. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 20:41 Alex Taussig If you looked at MySpace and Friendster and compared to Facebook, you would have said that Facebook would have lost because it didn't have first mover advantage, but the Facebook product was
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 17:10 Paul Buchheit I don't know if you remember Friendster, but they could have been maybe Facebook, but they got fixated on this idea that when you browse through profiles, it had to show you kind of the six degrees of separation between you and this…
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Prior to Nuzzle, Jonathan was the founder of early social media machine, Friendster, attaining funding from Benchmark Kleiner and Reid Hoffman.
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 9:49 Josh Wolfe I mean, maybe you could argue Friendster.
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 12:01 Alex Bangash It didn't start and end with Friendster or MySpace or Facebook or WhatsApp.
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 18:13 Neeraj Agrawal Um, you have on the product side, which you see less of these days, but Battery was an investor in Frencer way back in the day, and I think they were way ahead, but unfortunately grew too fast, they couldn't keep up, and Facebook…
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings But previously, Jonathan was also the founder and CEO of Socializer, Friendster, and Hotlinks, and he was a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nautil.
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings So you've got Friendster, Angel Investor, Nuzzle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Harry Stebbings And did you apply that focus then to the founding of Hotlinks and Friendster?
- ▶ 5:45 Jonathan Abrams So as I, as I mentioned earlier, you know, it's funny, one of, you know, the very first companies I started was trying to have people share good links with each other, and then I started Friendster, which was the original social networking…
- ▶ 12:54 Jonathan Abrams It is funny, you know, we, we, Kent, who's the COO of Nuzzle and worked with me at Franster before, we feel that we're still in the midst of very big shifts in terms of mobile, social, and cloud. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:02 Jonathan Abrams Then, of course, during the downturn period, with, with not a lot going on, that left me a lot of time to just sit around thinking of some really goofy ideas, which led to Friendster, and obviously Friendster was both a high and a low. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World Of Software with Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 31:29 Harry Stebbings With Jonathan Abrams of Nuzzle and Friendster.
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings With the likes of Naval Ravikant at AngelList, Ryan Holmes at Hootsuite, Jonathan Abrams at Friendster and Nuzzle, and previous guests Kate Schillow at Galvanize, all on their cap table.