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Insight
Synchronous social apps depend on concurrent graph availability
“In a presence product like House Party, the availability of the graph is really key for the successful of the use case. If people are busy when you're available, you can't match with them, you can't talk to them.”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 7:20 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
Disclosure
Ben Rubin failed to bridge early and late-stage cultures at Houseparty
“Bridging between those two cultures of the people you hire as you're iterating and pivoting a lot and to the people you hired after you started the immense growth, it's hard culture to bridge. And I don't think I've done a good job there”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 33:14 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
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