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Hartman predicts Gimlet Media has the potential to become an enormous company
“One is I think that Gimlet could, has the potential to be enormous.”
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,…”
Hartman: Ephemerality is a design pattern lowering friction to post
“On the ephemerality side, I think that that actually, think about that not as a feature, but as a design pattern. What has ended up happening is that it lowered the friction to post. So I know that it's not going to everybody, and I know that it's going to dis…”
Hartman: Betaworks requires weekly recurring user activity for early investments
“That is one of the key things that we look for in our investments is we were very introspective with our early companies that were working with that haven't launched yet. The only thing we have is kind of our view of how we're using the product and how it fits…”
Betaworks used Twitter network analysis to identify Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover
“I remember when we first started talking to Ryan from product time, one of the things that we had done was this network analysis with our data. I had sat down with our data scientists and started mapping out the networks of this on Twitter. Because it's so pub…”
Hartman: Meerkat executed one of the best recent product launches
“I thought that that was sort of in retrospect now, one of the best product launches I've seen in a while.”
Hartman: The competition between Meerkat and Periscope is not over yet
“I don't think it's over yet.”
Hartman: Native audio app design must enable eyes-free usage
“What's native about something like an audio app, you know, is that probably you want to make sure that, that the experience is native, that you can look at it, use it without looking, and so things like that.”
Hartman: Demand for Great Podcasts Exceeds the Supply of High-Quality Shows
“So I think at the moment there's not as many great podcasts as there are people looking for great podcasts. There are a lot of podcasts, not necessarily great ones.”
Hartman: Podcasting Monetization Is Straightforward Due to Existing Audio Ad Ecosystems
“In, in the case of podcasting, there are, there's already an established ecosystem of how to do audio ads. And so I think there's actually, in that sense, it's much further along and in many ways can be monetized in a very straightforward way.”
Product Hunt originally started as an email newsletter
“A bunch of people at Betaworks were on the early on an early version, I think it was an email before it was even a website.”
Hartman: Betaworks Uses Product Hunt for Deal Sourcing and Investments
“I use product hunt as a way to find investment. We've made investments that were initiated on product hunt.”
Hartman: Betaworks studio built 19 companies, currently hosting 10 startups
“I think we've done about, built about 19 companies from the ground up in various stages, and they, they're, if you come into our office, we have, there's probably a hundred, over a hundred people here. All working at the moment on 10 different companies”