Gina Gotthilf

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2023 by Gina Gotthilf · across every show →

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Jun 21, 2023 negative
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Gotthilf: Facebook paid ads are a palliative, addictive growth tactic
“I think this one died a death from day one, but people don't realize it is paid marketing and especially like paid ads on Facebook. Unless you're really smart about how you're doing it and you know exactly like, you know, how you're going to scale this over ti…”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 58:43 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023
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Gotthilf: Tumblr failed to pay her for six months over wire issues
“I wasn't paid at Tumblr for six months, because they couldn't figure that out, and I was like, I was living with my parents, like in my childhood bedroom at the time when I was 25, and like working out of like my childhood bed, literally.”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 7:20 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023
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Gotthilf: Duolingo's initial growth team was just her and one engineer
“It was just me and one engineer. That's all they gave me and one backend engineer.”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 9:33 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023
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Gotthilf: Leaders at successful early-stage startups rarely know what they are doing
“One of the things I learned at Tumblr that I think a lot of people in early stage startups that succeed learn is that no one knows what they're doing at most points in time in life and in business.”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 6:28 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023 positive
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Gotthilf: Statistically significant failed experiments reveal high-leverage user moments
“If you run an experiment with statistical significance and it harmed your product, that means that you found a moment that really matters to users. And if you found a moment that really matters to users, you can manipulate it in multiple ways for positive and …”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 11:57 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2023
Disclosure
Gotthilf: Personally wrote 100+ press emails per Duolingo global launch
“When I was doing press for Duolingo and we were doing these global launches, I was personally writing over a hundred emails at a time, like, to get, like, and it had to be within a window of time because this launch was coming up.”
Gina Gotthilf Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 52:27 Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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