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Hartman: Network architecture drives Twitter to news and Facebook to friends
“The difference between Facebook and Twitter is a bi-directional arrow, basically. So if the follow versus friend model actually creates these totally different ecosystems, it's kind of like DNA replicating, and it turns into a different type of organism. Well,…”
Ari Helgason prefers Twitter outreach over cold emails from founders
“Via Twitter. I'm quite active on there, and it's usually a better way to catch my attention than sending an email.”
Calacanis: Serial Founders Peak on Their Third or Fourth Startup
“People on their third, fourth swing at bat can do really well, whether it's Evan Williams with Twitter. He did he did Odeo and then blogger before that, but Twitter obviously was his third time up at bat. So I love founders when they're at the third time at ba…”
Jason Calacanis passed on early angel investments in Twitter and Zynga
“I had passed on investing in Twitter and I passed on investing in Zingo, which are two of my very good friends.”
Companies Should Run Their Twitter Accounts Like a Media Outlet
“You should share other people's content and mention them by name, you should share interesting things like quotes and yes, content that you found that aren't yours, and you should share your own stuff. So treat that like a little microcosm of a media outlet an…”
Lipman: Periscope holds a significant growth advantage over Meerkat
“I think Periscope, they have a advantage in regards to growth with, you know, being able to piggyback off of Twitter and using, having such a strong relationship with them, and now actually being acquired by them, but I think that they both can win, but at thi…”
Wienbar: Founders Should Use Customized LinkedIn Messages for Cold VC Outreach
“I think the more thoughtful place to do a sort of a cold outreach is on LinkedIn. But please don't link it, you know, ask to link to me just with the canned, you know, I'd like to connect with you, but I think a lot of deal flow both on Twitter and LinkedIn wh…”
Jerry Murdock: Insight Partners closed its Twitter investment in under 30 days
“We did that investment less than 30 days from the time I met the team and the time we closed, and it turned out to be a watershed investment for the company”
Lemkin discloses earning $3,000-$4,000 monthly from X/Twitter creator payouts
“I get like three or four grand from Twitter a month.”
Ross: I would have mocked Musk's OpenAI bid using a Twitter $420 joke
“I would have probably said instead of whatever he said about nine billion, I would have said, yeah, I'm going to take Twitter public at 420 dollars a share.”
Benioff Reaffirms Salesforce Almost Acquired Twitter
“We almost bought one. You probably remember we almost bought Twitter.”
Dixon: Twitter chose Fred Wilson's Series A bid because he used the product
“If you're Fred Wilson doing, you know, consumer internet in 2005, you'll hear, you know, you heard the reason that, that Twitter picked him, you know, when it was a competitive deal at the series A was that he was using the product.”
Biswas: Marc Andreessen uses a "barbell strategy" for information consumption
“So he's talked about this a little bit, but I think Mark spends time on X or Twitter and, you know, gets a lot of what's, what's going on in the moment. And then he reads some really old, old books, right? Like stuff that's maybe out of print and hard to find …”
Seibert: Legacy Twitter required two to three weeks for statistical data
“Particularly at Twitter, we need to get stats, SIG data, which always took two to three weeks.”
Seibert: Twitter, Slack, and YouTube originated as completely different products
“Twitter was a podcasting startup. Slack was a game. YouTube was a dating website.”
Khosla: I failed to see the potential of Twitter in 2007
“I remember in 2007, a journalist asked me about Twitter and they interviewed me and they sourced their questions on Twitter in 2007, I think. I think maybe in early 2007 at Davos or something. And I said, huh, interesting, but couldn't see the potential of it.”
Stebbings: Twitter Posts Perform Best Early Morning or Late at Night
“Twitter tends to hit best early in the morning or late at night.”
Stebbings Personally DM'd 50,000 Twitter Followers to Diversify 20VC's Audience
“Fun fact, I believed in the importance of channel diversification so much with TwentyVC. Until I had 50,000 followers on Twitter, I used to DM each new follower and ask them to follow a different channel.”
Beykpour: Twitter leadership distills product reviews into 4-5 written bullets
“After we have the live product review, we have a debrief as a leadership team, a fifteen-minute debrief, where we try and, amongst ourselves, say, alright, we just talked about a lot of stuff. What's the most useful feedback we can, like, clarify and write dow…”
Gary Vee still holds the majority of his original Twitter investment
“I sold some Twitter, but still hold the majority of that holdings from then.”
Gary Vee's first three angel investments were Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
“The first three companies I invested in, in my entire life as an investor were Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.”
Beykpour: Twitter Held Three 45-Minute Executive Product Reviews Weekly
“So in terms of like the what we have product reviews on a week or I host product reviews on a weekly basis. And the reason I say I is like cascading down our product organization. Some of our product leads have their own cadences around product reviews as well…”
Sahil Bloom started posting on Twitter in May 2020
“It's actually twenty-twenty. I didn't start sharing things on Twitter until May of twenty-twenty. I had like a few hundred followers at the time”
Sahil Bloom gained his second 100K Twitter followers in just 45 days
“The first 100,000 took, I don't know, eight, nine months. And then I think I've grown a 100,000 in the last. 45 days or 50 days.”
Mac Conwell grew his Twitter following from 2,500 to 50,000 in months
“Last June I had 2500 followers, right? Like 10 years. 2500 people. I went from 2500, I think I just crossed 50,000, like yesterday.”
Dorsey and Stone established Twitter's purpose as serving the public conversation
“What I did when I came in is, is Jack and I hammered out a purpose statement for Twitter. The answer to the question, why do we exist? Because before that, if we asked around at the company, you know, what's the purpose of Twitter's existence? People would say…”
Lambda's Twitter 'Building in Public' Brand Was Completely Unscripted
“When we got into YC, I was like, okay, I need to like cut back On Twitter and just be heads down, but it was kind of fun to share what was happening. So it was just like an honest outgrowth of my personality that I thought it was fun to share stuff as things w…”
Superhuman and Roam Research built growth via Twitter superfans
“Super fans of all these products, you know, the cult members of these cults, will show up and overwhelmingly recommend their tool, and I know Superhuman, for instance, benefited a lot from that, and it looks lately like Rome Research is really benefiting from …”
Crashlytics Reached 300 Million Monthly Active Users Within 12 Months
“Just over 12 months after launch, we hit three hundred million MAUs, and then Twitter acquired us.”
Cover reached 2M organic users and sold to Twitter in 14 months
“We grew to over two million users in our first couple months with zero money spent on paid acquisition, and we got acquired by Twitter just 14 months after founding the company.”
Jesse Beyroutey blocks social media and news apps during the workweek
“First of all, I deleted off of my phone every app or thing that I would unconsciously open and refresh. And that included every bit of social media and news platform. So I don't read them on my phone. And further, I stopped reading them during the week. So I s…”
Rowghani: Twitter went from zero mobile engineers to 80% mobile usage
“And we went from no mobile products and no mobile engineers to 80% of our usage was on mobile.”
Twitter completed about 14 acquisitions in 14 months under Rishi Garg
“After that, we did a bunch of different projects, about 14 or so acquisitions in about 14 months.”
Seibert: Twitter made Crashlytics free and expanded the team to launch Fabric
“And so they were willing to make Crashlytics free. They were willing to help us grow our team significantly so that we could build adjacent products, which we ultimately did and became a suite known as fabric.”
Seibert: Twitter acquires an average of one to two companies a month
“Twitter on average acquires one to two companies a month. They have for years.”
Harry Stebbings: Twitter acquired Crashlytics for $259M
“Which I believe is used on over a billion devices today, and they were ultimately acquired for two hundred and fifty nine million dollars by Twitter.”
Hoover: Tagging authors and adding takes when sharing links builds authentic connections
“One small, small difference that most people don't do is they usually share articles, but they rarely tag the author. And so just one small thing, I would share like maybe 10 articles a day, and I would always tag the author just to give them a hat tip and be …”
Hoover: Twitter is critical for Product Hunt and one of his most important products
“It's probably one of the most important products in my life. Actually without Twitter, I don't even know where I'd be, which is kind of a weird statement to make, but it's such a serendipity machine and has allowed me to meet a lot of people, and of course it'…”
Maqubela limits VC dinners, conferences, and travel to prioritize home life
“And so the intimate dinners with other VCs, and the events, and the summit series, and the conferences, and the stuff that requires either being on a plane, or being outside of my home, I tend to Personally, just limit, or if not limit, be really, really, real…”
Transmedia Capital gained Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn stakes via startup acquisitions
“Well, those Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Twitter were all through acquisitions. Scan was a company that was acquired by Snapchat. Snappy TV was acquired by Twitter, and Nozzle was acquired by LinkedIn. So that's how we have positions those companies.”
Huber: Most tweets are personal reminders, attracting 315,000 followers
“Most of my tweets are just tweets directly to me. Like, they're reminders and advice to me. I am giving advice to myself on the internet, and it just so happens that 315,000 people have followed me because they think it applies to them as well.”
Twitter Acquired Crashlytics for Nine Figures Before Selling to Google
“Prior to Digits, Wayne and Jeff co-founded Crashlytics, which was acquired by Twitter for a nine-figure sum in January, and then acquired from Twitter by Google in 2017.”
Twitter had under 20 employees and 1M users when Kevin Thau joined
“When he joined, they had less than 20 employees and one million users”
Betaworks invested in Airbnb, Twitter, and internally built Bitly and Chartbeat
“Matt is Director of Seed Investments at Betaworks, who have invested in the likes of Tumblr, Airbnb, Groupon, and Twitter, and have internally built startups such as Chartbeat, Bitly, and Socialflow.”
Use Twitter as an Initial Handshake for Influencer Networking
“But I'm using Twitter as like the handshake moment, and then I can actually follow up with content and requests for sharing that content or feedback or speaking at an event we throw, et cetera. So it's really good for influencer building.”