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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Myspace comes up
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 27:47 Cliff Weitzman Facebook came as a second to Friendster, and now in MySpace, and now they're not second.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:10 Harry Stebbings Friendster and Myspace and everything before it had been, bluntly, 2 times in the scene
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)
- ▶ 30:44 Simon Squibb I think if you have a similar mission, it's the whole, uh, I'd rather have five percent of Facebook than a hundred percent of MySpace.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:20 Martin Casado There was MySpace, there was Friendster, and then MySpace before that, 2 times in the scene
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:04 unnamed speaker We were, like, MySpace, there's, like, HiFriends, Friendster.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:44 Victor Lazarte You know, like, Facebook was not the first social network, like, when Zuck built Facebook, there was, ah, MySpace and Friendster before it, right?
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:15 Klaus Hommels and then you had, like, MySpace, and it was fascinating that Friendster being, like, the sort of first social media, yeah, the only thing they basically invented is, I could see through whom I know somebody else, the six or seven degrees… 4 times in the scene
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:28 Cameron Adams If you have a crappy signup page that looks like it was made on MySpace in 2006, like that's setting the tone for your product.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Mike Schroepfer My space was bleeding cash and was actually bigger than Meta at the time or Facebook.
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:02 Nikesh Arora Why did MySpace never take off?
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:18 Erik Allebest I want to build the MySpace of chess.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:58 Alex Schultz That's what MySpace talked about.
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:42 Cliff Obrecht Professional graphic design tools at the time, whilst at the same time people were using, I think it was MySpace at the time, Facebook, they were collaborating, they were sharing content, and, and she gets all the credit.
20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
- ▶ 9:11 Scott Belsky And they're like, well, there's already MySpace, there's already DeviantArt, there's already LinkedIn, like, why do I need yet another place to build a profile?
Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:12 Ruchi Sanghvi There was MySpace that was bigger.
20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
- ▶ 19:24 Scott Belsky And they're like, well, there's already MySpace.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And the second, iLike, which was acquired by Myspace in 2009.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 17:12 Eugene Wei It's crazy now to think about that era of social, but that's how MySpace worked.
- ▶ 21:44 Eugene Wei You know, we had the MySpaces of the world, the Friendsters.
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 26:22 Jeremy Liew And that reverse chronological order was then adopted by MySpace because it's what Friendster had done. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
- ▶ 21:20 Johnny Boufarhat It's, are we going to be Facebook or MySpace or, you know, that's the sort of thing that we sort of pitch out.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 5:38 Shishir Mehrotra People's view of it was the time YouTube was compared with Flickr and MySpace, and it seemed kind of ridiculous to compare YouTube to Disney and ESPN.
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 14:43 Hamilton Helmer The fact that MySpace came before Facebook doesn't in the slightest in the way I think about creation diminish the creative act of all the things that Zuckerberg and others at Facebook have done to make Facebook a great company.
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 6:26 Sarah Smith Facebook and MySpace were battling it out in the social media area, and really, consumer web was just taking off, and so everyone, including my classmates, were all kind of getting into this ecosystem.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 11:59 Ryan Caldbeck Even in industries where, if you look at Facebook, there was MySpace before that, or before Google, there's a couple other search engines.
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 5:27 Darian Shirazi MySpace was eighty million users.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 20:41 Alex Taussig If you looked at MySpace and Friendster and compared to Facebook, you would have said that Facebook would have lost because it didn't have first mover advantage, but the Facebook product was
20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before LinkedIn, Emily enjoyed roles such as Director of Digital Business Strategy and Operations at Warner Brothers, International Strategy and Ops at MySpace, and CorpDev Strategy at Yahoo.
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 17:34 Paul Buchheit How to do this impossible thing when what my space at the time did was they just, if it wasn't your friend, they just said they're in your extended network.
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Prior to science, Mike was the CEO at MySpace, where he was responsible for one of the most high-profile turnaround challenges in the industry.
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 27:28 Harley Finkelstein And if it was 10 years ago, we'd probably have a, a MySpace channel.
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 7:26 Naval Ravikant Some people decided that when my space was dominant, some people decided that when Facebook was dominant, now people will decide that when Snapchat is dominant.
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 2:44 Kevin Chou But he has a social network to compete against Facebook, and I think we all know who won that game, and so we ended up changing the whole company to be focused on creating sports fan communities, and we did that inside of Facebook,…
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 5:14 Rishi Garg We tried to buy my space, um, before it was purchased by Fox sports or by Fox rather.
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 2:39 Peter Pham This thing's growing on, on my space and blogger and live journal. 5 times in the scene
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.
20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
- ▶ 5:31 Clark Landry Um, this is back when MySpace was really the dominant, uh, player in the social networking space, and so, 2 times in the scene