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Levesque: Building Messenger Kids was his team's biggest win at Facebook
“I had a variety of teams at Facebook, but the one that was the biggest win for us was building messenger kids and engaging an entirely new segment of the population and by building this kind of safe family messaging product.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 6:13 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Levesque: TripWow saw diminishing returns after three homepage iterations
“We did seven iterations of the homepage and after three, we saw a lot of impact, but then there was very much diminishing returns to whether it's button colors or changing the UI or adding free to the button.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 40:54 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Levesque: Paid Search is Essential as Google Deprioritizes Organic Results
“Paid channels in general have become more important because a lot of these services, a lot of these engines like Google are moving away from showing organic results and showing paid. So paid, certainly paid search, for example, works very well. And it's still …”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 43:22 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Levesque: Merchant recommendations are a top driver of Shopify's growth
“So we're always iterating on making it easier for merchants to do that, but it's because we have such a great product and one of the highest cited reasons for joining Shopify is that somebody had recommended them in that it's, again, it's kind of part of the c…”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 5:00 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Levesque: Facebook's key growth metric was daily active engaged users
“For Facebook, it was daily active people engaged on the product”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 9:12 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Levesque: Shopify embeds dedicated product and engineering teams inside its growth org
“We have a product org and an engineering org inside the Shopify growth org”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 33:01 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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