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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Friendster comes up
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.