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Standard growth playbooks fail on company-specific retention issues
“The tools that you have are probably good to inform 80% of your decision, but there's going to be a situation in which only you can actually come up with the infrastructure And the tooling to understand your problem. You're not going to be able to solve that p…”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 9:14 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
Insight
Live video is a feature, not a standalone product category
“And we know today that live video is not what we thought it's going to be three, five years ago. It's actually a great feature on top of existing platform that is being used by celebrity media news more often than the next person.”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 17:52 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
Insight
Broadcaster retention is the only sustainable metric for live video platforms
“The only thing that matters, the only thing that is sustainable is broadcaster retention.”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 15:41 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
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
Insight
Board meetings should be discussion platforms, not decision-making arenas
“I think, obviously, you don't want to surprise your board in stuff like this during the board meeting. I think board meetings are not for, or rarely, or really when she'd hit the fanart to make decision, most of the time, board should be used as discussion pla…”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 21:38 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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