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Allebest: VCs including Peter Thiel rejected Chess.com for five years
“We tried for like the first Five years to raise money. We tried many times. We tried angels. We tried, I met Peter Thiel. I went, I met a bunch of different angels. I went up and down. I used all my connections up and down Silicon, you know, Sand Hill road to …”
Allebest: Short-form video completely drove Chess.com's latest growth wave
“Our most recent wave was Completely driven off of short forms, whether it's YouTube shorts, Instagram, you know stuff or reels or, you know, TikTok. It is totally driven.”
Allebest: COVID and The Queen's Gambit 5xed Chess.com overnight
“When COVID came and the Queen's Gambit hit and our numbers like five X overnight, it grew the game of chess five X.”
Allebest: Chess.com pushes new users to play coach bots first
“What we're trying to do is push people toward not playing a person first, but knowingly playing a coach bot personality where they will win and feel good But not to just throw them in the pool of players against other people where there's a fifty-fifty chance …”
Allebest: Chess.com has 150M+ registered members and 15M weekly active users
“So just, we could say we've got about a 150, a little over a 150, a hundred and sixty million registered members. We have Take a weekly active users is probably around 10% of that. Around fifteen million. About 10% of that are active subscribers.”