Meerkat

6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2015 by Brandon Lipman · said 21 times in 9 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition) Jan 24, 2026 · 1 mention · from 9:42
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20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures Apr 5, 2017 · 1 mention · from 5:32
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2016 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode

20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next Apr 4, 2016 · 2 mentions · from 0:52
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing Mar 14, 2016 · 1 mention · from 14:57
20 VC FF 034: What Fintech Can Learn From Uber and The Shift From Financial Organisation To Financial Efficiency with Kelly Peeler, Founder & CEO @ NextGenVest Feb 5, 2016 · 1 mention · from 15:38
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO Jan 11, 2016 · 1 mention · from 0:30
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2015 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode

20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks Oct 12, 2015 · 9 mentions · from 14:08
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup Aug 10, 2015 · 1 mention · from 13:44
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Everything said about Meerkat, oldest first

Apr 20, 2015 bullish

Opinion

Lipman: Periscope holds a significant growth advantage over Meerkat

“I think Periscope, they have a advantage in regards to growth with, you know, being able to piggyback off of Twitter and using, having such a strong relationship with them, and now actually being acquired by them, but I think that they both can win, but at thi…”

Brandon Lipman Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 16:22 20 VC 029: The Potential Upside To A Technology Bubble with TechCrunch's Brandon Lipman

Oct 12, 2015 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Hartman: The competition between Meerkat and Periscope is not over yet

“I don't think it's over yet.”

Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 14:56 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks

Oct 12, 2015 positive

Opinion

Hartman: Meerkat executed one of the best recent product launches

“I thought that that was sort of in retrospect now, one of the best product launches I've seen in a while.”

Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 14:14 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks

Apr 5, 2017 negative

Assertion Supported

Breinlinger: Meerkat's rapid growth was unsustainable and crashed post-investment

“Meerkat is actually one of my favorite examples, which was skyrocketing in terms of usage, but nothing was sustainable about it, and, you know, they got an investment, and it crashed shortly after that”

Josh Breinlinger Apr 5, 2017 ▶ 5:32 20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures

Aug 21, 2020 bearish

Disclosure

Meerkat realized live video was unsustainable three months after raising $14M

“Within three months after raising fourteen million dollars from Greylock and other investors, we were like, guys, there's no broadcaster attention in the average person, in the 99% who are not celebs, media and news. And because of this, we cannot build an ind…”

Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 18:15 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty

Aug 21, 2020

Disclosure

Meerkat's broadcaster retention only existed among celebrities and media

“And one of the things that we saw that we had the privilege to see with millions of people using Meerkat is that the retention for broadcasters Only existed in the celebs, media, and news type of users.”

Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 16:43 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty

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