Ryan Hoover

11 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2015 by Matt Hartman · said 21 times in 8 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Oct 12, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Betaworks used Twitter network analysis to identify Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover
“I remember when we first started talking to Ryan from product time, one of the things that we had done was this network analysis with our data. I had sat down with our data scientists and started mapping out the networks of this on Twitter. Because it's so pub…”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 11:06 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Dec 11, 2015 positive
Insight
Ryan Hoover: A CEO's job is to hire themselves out of a job
“As a CEO role, your kind of ultimate job is to hire yourself out of a job in many ways”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 26:39 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Hoover: Product Hunt will expand to all passion categories within 5 years
“In five years, you'll see Product Hunt turn into a community and a site for all kinds of people and all kinds of things. And it will be a place where you can find all kinds of things from You know, whatever you're most passionate about, and you can find like-m…”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 29:25 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015
Insight
Hoover: Building online communities requires extensive manual outreach initially
“To make a community work, to build something like this, you need to really focus on the people in the beginning and do a lot of frankly manual, like labor, manual things to get it going.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 3:51 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015 positive
Insight
Hoover: Hosting 6-10 person brunches is an effective, underutilized networking tactic
“Small brunches with, you know, six to 10 people. A lot of them, people in, in entrepreneurship or startups or whatnot. And those have been fantastic because it's a great way to build a really small but, like, very intimate relationship in some ways with people…”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 21:46 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015 positive
Insight
Hoover: Tech founders overlook game design psychology
“There's a wealth of information there that most kind of tech entrepreneurs, like anyone building a website or app, they don't really think as much about some of these things that game designers think about all the time.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 28:51 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015
Insight
Hoover: Product teams should act on user patterns, not individual feedback
“Like, we're going to look for patterns, and we're going to make changes, but there will inevitably be people that say, oh, like, this button shouldn't be here, and we're not going to move it just because they say this button shouldn't be here. Like, not all th…”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 9:50 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015 negative
Opinion
Hoover doubts a single person can run Twitter and Square simultaneously
“I don't know how he can do it. I don't know. I just don't know how anyone can run two companies, especially two massive prominent companies as a single person.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 20:27 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Investors approached Product Hunt first during early fundraising
“Investors started approaching me before I never actually approached investors in the beginning.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 23:58 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015
Insight
Hoover: Online communities must continually grow or they will die
“When you build a community, you have to not only seed it with the right kind of culture that you want, but then you have to make sure it grows, and you have to keep growing, otherwise it just dies. A lot of communities start, but they don't grow, and then they…”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 5:15 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Dec 11, 2015
Insight
Hoover: User testing is essential but emotionally painful for creators
“User testing is the most, one of the most insightful things, but also painful things to watch. Because you see them using this thing that you spent all this time building, and you're like, this is beautiful.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 8:48 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
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