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Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:18 Harry Stebbings I saw that you spoke recently about the kind of radicalization or antagonism within young men when it comes to the amount of swipes correlated to the amount of coffees on Tinder and dating apps. 3 times in the scene
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:11 Harry Stebbings And I remember I had Sean Rad from Tinder on the show and like, there was this like visceral, um, objection to any hookup app from him. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:31 George Arison Fifteenish percent for Tinder, for example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:51 Harry Stebbings It's a tough balance, because if you have the Tinder app, it is a hard monetized product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:52 George Arison Comp to Tinder or a comp to Bumble is not the right approach. 5 times in the scene
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:52 Phil Carter There are the outliers, like, let's say, Duolingo, Tinder, Strava.
- ▶ 40:18 Phil Carter If you look at the number of Duolingo's, Spotify's, tenders, uh, there just aren't that many of them, right?
- ▶ 41:50 Harry Stebbings You mentioned some great consumer subscription businesses that Tinder, Spotify being two of them.
- ▶ 53:32 Phil Carter Like you're not going to go into Duolingo or Strava or tender and talk about paywall view rate and find anybody who's surprised by this.
- ▶ 58:01 Phil Carter Tiers, you've got, Tender's a good example. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:03 Phil Carter You've got Tender Plus, Tender Gold, Tender Platinum. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:03 Phil Carter You've got Tender Plus, Tender Gold, Tender Platinum. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:03 Phil Carter You've got Tender Plus, Tender Gold, Tender Platinum. 5 times in the scene
Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings Did you, how did you deal with that detachment from identity when no longer CEO of Tinder?
- ▶ 4:17 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what was the inspiration behind Tinder? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:12 Sean Rad So then, so first of all, Tinder, Tinder was a relatively complicated product to market because it is very much location specific and you're building network effects, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:15 Sean Rad So this whole idea of law, and another thing I'll say, we always believed in this, you know, Tinder, we always believe we have one shot.
- ▶ 15:55 Sean Rad You were not allowed to say dating at Tinder. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 Sean Rad If I was still at Tinder, and in fact, while I was there, this, this was sort of a metric of success I always drove home for the team, is that 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:25 Sean Rad There was a moment in time where I think Tinder was growing so fast.
- ▶ 29:26 Sean Rad That's not an easy thing, but it was particularly difficult around the Tinder product because in the beginning, in the early days, we thought localization meant that the language of the app had to adapt to the language of the user, but… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Sean Rad I would say the Tinder team was maniacally good about focus and prioritizing and saying no and keeping the product simple. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:11 Sean Rad It's like Tinder was always, you're yourself, you're human.
- ▶ 42:37 Harry Stebbings Are you proud of the Tinder product today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Harry Stebbings Um, I got a little bit of money, not quite nearly as much as you did from Tinder, but I wasn't very happy, and it was a very awkward time of, like, shit, if the thing I've always been chasing isn't actually the thing that I was promised it… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:43 Harry Stebbings Did you take money out the way through Tinder?
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:37 Dan Siroker And now you have the possibility with social media to do the opposite, to do what Tinder or, you know, any, any great dating app lets you do, which is cast a wide net and see who's a good fit for you.
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:11 Semil Shah I think the first thing is like people in the last three or four years, and I miss this wave, uh, you know, it's like, I got married right when Tinder was taking off
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:36 Tarek Mansour I remember I had a conversation with, um, with Justin Mateen, uh, the founder of Tinder when he first, you know, we, we, um,
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:12 Paul Davison Why did Tinder work? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Paul Davison And I think, you know, like I was saying shopping, it was Amazon and dating was Tinder and meetings with zoom.
- ▶ 40:14 Paul Davison Like if you think about Tinder or LinkedIn, there are more people networks.
20VC: Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd on How The Best Leaders Manage Intense Pressure, How To Think Through Risk vs Reward Frameworks & What it Truly Means to Listen so Your Teams Will Talk
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings And then in February 21, Whitney took Bumble public on the NASDAQ, and prior to founding Bumble, Whitney was the co-founder and VP of marketing at Tinder.
- ▶ 4:00 Whitney Wolfe Herd So, thing one was I had just left this incredibly fast-growing rocket ship of a startup that I helped found as one of the co-founders, which was Tinder, and I was 24 at the time.
- ▶ 12:17 Harry Stebbings And then how has it changed from being the twenty-four-year-old in the hyper-growth journeys of Tinder?
- ▶ 19:48 Whitney Wolfe Herd I think it was probably one of my lower days and it was post leading Tinder.
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:25 Jim Lanzone I was there for nine years, uh, left with the Viacom merger, uh, after, you know, I think, uh, you know, we had a really good run there and became the CEO of Tinder during COVID.
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings As CEO of Tinder for a while, I am pleased to say that I contributed to 50% of your revenues.
- ▶ 14:58 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, I, I spoke to Renate before, and she mentioned a time at Tinder when you brought, um, a demo of the videos that you wanted to bring to Tinder, and you showed it to the board, and then you made it happen within three months. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:37 Harry Stebbings We mentioned, obviously, the, the video introduction there at Tinder.
- ▶ 54:16 Jim Lanzone 25 years, which makes it even weirder that I ran Tinder for that period of time, because I was the last person who was ever going to use it.
- ▶ 54:47 Jim Lanzone Well, by the way, did you know that Tinder is the number one source of marriages in the United States? 3 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:54 Tony Fadell My friend's CEO of Tinder if you need any help.
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 6:10 Casey Winters I ended up working with, you know, lots of different companies, you know, companies like Canva, Eventbrite, Tinder, Thumbtack, on various different scaling problems.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 8:34 Mark Mullen I met Sean Radd from Tinder, and I met the guys from Honey.
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 19:08 Linda Lian So similar to how I got my job at Madrona by reaching out cold on LinkedIn, I met my co-founders on Tinder for Enterprise on LinkedIn.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 38:54 Bill Gurley It's almost like tender for your experience set or something like that.
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Wayne and Jeff have raised over thirty-two million dollars for Digits, from some of the best in the business, including Peter Fenton at Benchmark, and Jess Verrilli at GV, and then also the most incredible base of angels, with the…
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 28:24 David Tisch That's what Tinder hit on. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 21:39 Brianne Kimmel Jeff is product leader at Tinder first, but also has built this amazing VC fund called Chapter One.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm very excited to welcome to the show, for the first time, Brian Norgard, former chief product officer at the top-grossing mobile app in the world, Tinder, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings In less than three years, Tinder created over eleven billion dollars in market value, and with Brian's creation of Tinder Gold, Superlike, and Boost, the platform has seen over two hundred million downloads, and created millions of matches.
- ▶ 3:46 Harry Stebbings How did Tinder really come about? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:15 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, is one of your Tinder colleagues, Jeff Morris Jr. was on the show, and he said, I apply an investor's mindset to every product decision I make.
- ▶ 8:50 Brian Norgard Some passion to go tell a friend, like, you gotta try Uber, or you gotta get on Tinder, this is so interesting, or look at this app called Instagram, you know, these beautiful filters.
- ▶ 10:39 Brian Norgard One of the interesting stories around Tinder was just 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:43 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, sorry, and this, again, another personal one, in terms of your personal journey with products, were there any moments where you had real inflection points where, be it the sale of your company, be it Tinder hitting ten million…
- ▶ 25:05 Brian Norgard Probably the largest inflection point for myself was, was the launch of Tinder Gold. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:53 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, I always think when you have such kind of needle moving events, be it kind of the success of Tinder Gold, be it one of the angel investments, IPO-ing for, you know, multi-billion, do you appreciate those good times, or is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:15 Harry Stebbings Now, Brian, I would love, though, to dive into a quick fire round, and then I want to do round two with you on why products themselves do hit and taking the learnings from the incredible timber.
20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- ▶ 14:09 Steven Galanis Uh, today, the way the product works, it's like a mix between Tinder and Snapchat.
20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To
- ▶ 3:50 Henrique Dubugras And I built this app with my friends called ask me out, which is like Tinder, but instead of geolocation, it was with Facebook friends.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Jeff is also the Director of Product and Revenue at Tinder. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:06 Harry Stebbings So tell me, Jeff, how did you make your way into the world of startups, your position today with Tinder, and the fascinating element of coming to also found Chapter One Ventures?
- ▶ 9:00 Harry Stebbings Yeah, no, and I think actually also testament to the company behind you that kind of really inserts that risk-taking mindset. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how does your role at Tinder further help your expansive mindset when it comes to investing in mobile, and does it further inform your investing thesis in the space?
- ▶ 21:44 Jeff Morris Jr. The benefit of working at a place like Tinder is if there are companies that are doing something outside of my domain, I can normally pull in an expert. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 Jeff Morris Jr. Yeah, for me, it was really building Tinder Gold, so that's our most premium subscription tier, and it was an amazing team effort. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:42 Jeff Morris Jr. I think what it did for Tinder, though, is it really put us on the map and made people take us a lot more seriously as a product team. 4 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 9:07 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi And so folks like the folks from Snapchat and WhatsApp and Tinder and Instagram and many other companies, you know, which may have had slightly different paths.
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 24:26 Joe Fernandez The consumer spirit down here, you have Snapchat or Tinder, just companies really doing bold things that don't follow the playbook of Silicon Valley.
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
- ▶ 23:19 Harry Stebbings We had Sean around at Tinder on the show who said that scaling himself as CEO was the hardest element of the journey.
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 21:03 David Waxman There's so much going on here right now, and of course people think about LA for the Hollywood and the fashion and the media businesses that have always been here, and there's a great reason that companies like Snapchat and Tinder and the…
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 24:04 Aaron VanDevender If you think about like where, where a lot of that value to people has come from, it's from companies like Lyft, like Postmates, a Craigslist, Amazon Prime, you know, Tinder, you
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 14:07 Harry Stebbings Tinder on the show, and he said the best CEOs scale with their companies.
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 8:09 Harry Stebbings I recently had Sean Rad at Tinder on the show, and he said that humility is the number one trait he looks for character-wise in a founder.
20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- ▶ 18:04 Harry Stebbings Commonalities within founder traits, because I had Sean Rad at Tinder on the show recently, and he said that he always looks for founders to have a sense of a chip on their shoulder when, when kind of evaluating opportunities.
20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc
- ▶ 25:54 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with Sean Rad, founder at Tinder.
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 5:54 Harry Stebbings Never used Tinder, but anyway.
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings For Tinder, Cara also spent time at incredible institutions such as Microsoft, Battery Ventures, and Morgan Stanley.
- ▶ 8:34 Kara Nortman And then was part of getting Tinder off the ground. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- ▶ 18:49 Greg Bettinelli You have SpaceX, you have Tinder, you have Honest Company, commerce, other commerce companies like Loot Crate, um, that I think are doing very interesting things.
20VC: The Information's Jessica Lessin on The Future For Online Journalism & The Benefits Of A Subscription Based Business Model
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings And if that fails, hey, there's always Tinder. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 7:26 Josh Elman You can almost imagine even a, a Tinder swipe.
- ▶ 15:06 Harry Stebbings So, you know, from Tinder swiping right to meeting someone in a bar.
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 8:40 Branko Cerny First thing they do after they open their eyes in the morning is check their Instagram, check their Tinder, and, and hit the gym at Equinox.
- ▶ 13:35 Branko Cerny The, the Tinder example and the Equinox example, I mean, those are brands. 2 times in the scene
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 20:34 David Tisch They're the Snapchat, Tinder are the last big consumer companies to emerge.
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 27:15 Brian Wong Uh, in the dating world, it's Tinder, and, uh, in the professional world... 3 times in the scene
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 26:08 Jonathan Libov and I had an idea for what is basically Tinder now, but this was, this was pre-iPhone, and we, um,