users

8 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Oct 27, 2017 by Adi Sideman · across every show →

Everything said about users, oldest first

Oct 27, 2017 negative
Opinion
Sideman: Centralized platforms capture billions while creators get almost no value
“And then, you know, the second thing is there's a very disproportionate allocation of the value generated from these digital media networks. The internet started with this beautiful promise of a level playing field, but it ends up with what's happening is that…”
Adi Sideman Oct 27, 2017 ▶ 9:34 20VC: Why Decentralisation is Key For Digital Media Distribution, Why Gradual Decentralisation Is The Most Practical Approach and Why Incumbents Are The Biggest Barrier To The Rise of Crypto with Adi Sideman, Founder & CEO @ YouNow
Jan 17, 2018 neutral
Insight
Altman: User Dislike Is an Untreatable Startup Flaw
“A very bad word is a product that no one likes. That one I would stay away from. But when it feels like users are pulling the product out of the company, they're figuring out how to use it even though it's hard and broken because they just like it so much. Tha…”
Sam Altman Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 13:43 20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
Mar 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Spotify has 345 million users and 155 million subscribers
“It's a popular audio streaming subscription service with three hundred and forty five million users, including one hundred and fifty five million subscribers across 170 markets”
Harry Stebbings Mar 8, 2021 ▶ 0:28 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
Feb 2, 2024
Insight
Wu: Ignore user requests only when they conflict with core values
“I think listening to users is normally extremely important, though I think the one exception might be when something that users are asking for Conflicts with one of your core product values. But then I still think you don't like ignore them, but I think it's j…”
Will Wu Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 52:05 Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 13, 2024
Insight
Hudack: Users lie in research and tell builders what they want to hear
“You can do user research along the way, but, you know, the reality is that, that users lie when you talk to them, and they will always tell you what they think you want to hear.”
Mike Hudack Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 10:58 Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Google Sheets Had Over 100 Million Users During Code Rewrite
“We rewrote Google Sheets because it's a crazy scale. And so, you know, if you have something that has a hundred million plus users, which is what it had at the time, I think it's now like a billion users.”
Zach Lloyd Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 4:48 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Mar 30, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Over 99% of AI's economic value will accrue to users
“I think AI is the exact, I think it's already that way. I think it's going to be exactly the same way. It might even be greater than that. It might be 99.9999% of the value of AI is going to accrue to the users, not to the companies that make the AI.”
Marc Andreessen Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 1:00:13 Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 29, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reyes: Users will choose AI models based on opinions, not just performance
“Models are going to be like that as well, where they emit opinions and they have takes that are different from the ones that are most popular, and people will gravitate towards those.”
Eno Reyes Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 39:51 Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
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