The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Lieb: Bump prematurely hired a product lead before reaching PMF
“I made this mistake myself at Bump. We got to like, maybe it was 30 employees. All of our vanity metric graphs were like going way up. We were feeling really good. And I thought our company is going to need to like figure out our business model. Eventually we'…”
Lieb: 20% of Bump app opens were accidental taps meant for Facebook
“We thought we were like hot shit because everybody's using our app, but turns out like 20% of the time it was accident. They didn't mean to use it.”
Lieb: Prematurely hiring a product lead at Bump was a key mistake
“At bump, you know, we got to like, Maybe it was 30 employees, and we were, all of our vanity metric graphs were, like, going way up. We were feeling really good and I thought, oh, like, our company is gonna need to, like, figure out our business model eventual…”
Lieb: Google Photos intentionally rejected social features and photo editing
“And we said internally at Google, like, we're not going to build a social tool. This isn't a social network. Like, that's not what we're doing. We're not going to build some crazy, like, photo editing product. Like, it's not about being, quote, creative with y…”
Lieb: Bump reached 150 million installs, on 20% of global smartphones
“In, in, in the Bump kind of heyday, we had a hundred and fifty million installs on, on phones when the market for phones was only like, I don't know, maybe a billion phones in the world, or probably less than that, probably hundreds of high hundreds of million…”
Lieb: Bump sold to Google because it needed to raise capital
“We need, we were gonna need to raise some more money and we weren't sure that that was the right idea for ourselves or for the team or for investors. So usually when you sell a company, it's because you either really can and want to or you need to. For us, we …”