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Ryan Holmes Was Extremely Bullish on Snapchat's 10 Billion Daily Views
“Oh man, no, I, I'm hugely bullish on Snapchat. Ten billion views daily. Facebook's at eight billion. Huge audience. Very engaged audience. Recently, this, yesterday, memories coming out. That all of a sudden is, is really interesting seeing your archive of Sna…”
Rapid Product Shifts Are Irresponsible for Mature Software Companies
“As you grow user base, we have an accountability for dependability, reliability to them. We have an accountability you know, we have effectively Provided our customers with a product and a workflow that they're familiar with, and so rapid shifts in product, tu…”
Operating a Small Business Serves as a Mini MBA
“Working as a restaurateur or a small business owner in general, you know, I talk about small businesses are fantastic because ultimately full accountability rolls up to you, one person. You have to Ultimately develop a skill set. You have to be good at a lot o…”
Alphabet's Cellular Structure Allows Google to Effectively Expand in Multiple Directions
“And so that cellular division, I believe, is a very smart one. I think then it allows the leaders to create a more tightly aligned vision for a smaller group of people, and I think that's a very smart move on behalf of Google. I think it's going to allow them …”
Companies Should Cap Teams at 100 People Due to Cognitive Limits
“The human brain kind of on its own, unaided with Rolodexes and other stuff, on average, kind of starts, stops being effective around, you know, over a hundred relationships, and so, you know, I think that's a way of thinking about how we are maybe naturally wi…”
Hootsuite Policy Allows Employees to Walk Out of Unproductive Meetings
“You know, one of the things we have is a policy of, you know, if you don't feel like you're going to be adding value or the meeting isn't useful for you just excuse yourself. It's not, you know, a mandatory have to sit in and, you know, unless you're contribut…”
Meetings Without Clear Documented Outcomes Are a Waste of Time
“Because if you don't have outcomes out of a meeting, the whole meeting really, I think is very often wasn't worth value.”
Feature Wars Degrade Software Usability When Customers Primarily Prefer Simplicity
“I think that's something that often gets, gets missed as people get into a feature war in terms of adding the next, next, next, next feature. And, you know, ultimately you have something that looks like, do you just stapled on a bunch of brochures and maybe yo…”
Mark Suster Is the Best VC at Social Media Branding
“You know who I always love is Mark Schuster. He's like, so when we first, first started getting going in, in Twitter, 2008, nine, he was crushing it then. He's now crushing it on Snapchat and doing really interesting stuff.”
Hootsuite Achieved Immediate Viral Product-Market Fit at 2008 Launch
“And what we saw, you know, pretty much right out of the gates was a very viral uptake in the product usage. We had great product market fit.”
Hootsuite Bootstrapped Its First Year Using Seven Digital Agency Employees
“We worked for the first year. It was bootstrapped within the agency and classic, you know, entrepreneurial story. We had seven people from a 21 person team working on a zero revenue product.”
Hootsuite Created an Internal Startup for Cardboard Standing Desks
“I recently launched a little startup within Hootsuite that was to scratch my own back problem that I had, which was actually around a back injury a few years ago, and it was a simple stand-up The idea came out of just my daily work habits, and it's a cardboard…”