James Currier
13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2017 by James Currier · said 37 times in 9 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 9 mentions in 1 episode
2019 7 mentions in 1 episode
2018 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- 20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- 20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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Dec 13, 2017 neutral
Currier: Yahoo grew massive primarily due to its brand name over technology
“An example would be, I mean, certainly in naming, you watch a company like Yahoo you know, 20 years ago, they had such an incredible name that was different from every other company's name, and so the press wanted to talk about them all the time. The consumers…”
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 13, 2017 positive
Currier: Changing CTA from 'store' to 'share' grew users to 47M
“We had an experience years ago where, you know, we were storing photos on a website, and we said, store your photos here, and it didn't really grow very much, so we just switched it to say, share your photos, and that switch of Change the product flow and chan…”
Dec 13, 2017 positive
Dec 13, 2017 bearish
Currier: Consumer viral growth is harder because psychological needs are satisfied
“What I say is the psychological and emotional needs of the consumer are largely being met, and it's more difficult Of those emotional and psychological needs that you could tap into to generate that viral storm, to build a new network, to build a new identity …”
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 13, 2017 bullish
Dec 13, 2017
Currier: Founders should pivot or shut down when out of excited experiments
“For me, it comes down to, do you have a list of experiments you still want to do and you're excited about. So you've had a vision, you've had an interest in a particular market space, and you've gotten fired up about it, you've started a company, you've tried …”
Dec 13, 2017 bullish
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 13, 2017 bullish
Currier predicts software will triple or quadruple the RV rental market
“And we think that not only, this is one of those sectors that while it's only a few billion dollars today, you have a huge demand overhang, and it's going to transform the industry that they're in, and triple it, and quadruple the size of it, but with the pres…”