Giphy

8 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2016 by Sean Flynn · said 38 times in 13 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Jul 27, 2016 neutral
Opinion
Flynn: Messaging platforms suit peer communication over single-player utility tasks
“The one use case that I find more compelling, at least in the near term, is around these applications that are really native to the communication experience, right? It's not booking a taxi or booking an Uber that I think is native to that experience, but it's …”
Sean Flynn Jul 27, 2016 ▶ 18:21 20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
Aug 3, 2016 bullish
Opinion
Giphy Created an Entirely New Market Rather Than Competing
“But in the case of Giphy, there's not a market. It's a brand new market.”
Steve Schlafman Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 18:26 20VC: From Seed To Series A: The Due Diligence, The Valuations, The Investment Decision Making Process with Steve Schlafman @ RRE Ventures
Sep 9, 2016 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Giphy will expand GIFs into virtual reality, smart glasses, and paper
“GIFs in virtual reality, GIFs in your glasses, GIFs outside of computers, GIFs on paper. You know, a whole new kind of search engine that no one's ever seen before, where everything moves, which resembles all of life. Just think of what you look at in the worl…”
Adam Leibsohn Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 25:18 20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
Sep 9, 2016 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Giphy plans to monetize GIF search intent via contextual paid search
“We're looking at the idea of turning gift search into something that can be contextual, that can be highly relevant, highly targeted, where you're getting delivered content against a query that is directly related to what you're looking for, but may have been …”
Adam Leibsohn Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 20:41 20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
Sep 9, 2016 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Giphy powers the native GIF buttons inside Twitter, Facebook, and Slack
“We actually power that button. We power the gift button inside of Twitter. We power the gift button in Facebook. We power gifts in Slack.”
Adam Leibsohn Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 21:27 20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
Sep 9, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A massive mainstream audience still does not know what GIFs are
“There's, you know, there's a giant group of people out there that don't know what gifts are still, that don't know how to use them. And our job is to make sure they can, and then make sure that it's easy. And so you want to make gifts as fluid as what, you kno…”
Adam Leibsohn Sep 9, 2016 ▶ 24:33 20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
Mar 6, 2017 bullish
Assertion Supported
Borthwick: Giphy reaches over 100 million daily users
“Because last year, you know, we raised a lot of money for Givy, and Givy's tapping more than a hundred million people every day.”
John Borthwick Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 12:11 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
Jul 5, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Schuler: DFJ Growth preemptively invested in Giphy when it wasn't fundraising
“Well, the most recent one, we did two toward the end of the year. One was unity and the second was Giphy, and Giphy, I had to get them to say yes. They actually weren't raising money, and one of the ways we like to operate is being a little preemptive, and we …”
Barry Schuler Jul 5, 2017 ▶ 22:13 20VC: How To Get Back To 200 Tech IPOs Per Year, Why We Are In A 'Bulge" Not A Bubble & The Impending Flat & Down Rounds To Come with Barry Schuler, Partner @ DFJ Growth
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