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Most startup sellers should focus on closing one offer, not negotiating
“And really very few companies are in the position of fielding multiple offers. Your goal is really to optimize, to get an offer and get it over the line. And I think oftentimes entrepreneurs forget that.”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 43:08 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Dash: Term Sheets and LOIs From Tech Giants Mean Very Little
“Term sheets and LOIs, even from some of the largest companies in the world, Mean very little. I think oftentimes entrepreneurs can get really excited by it, but generating those is not very difficult for a large company to do.”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 45:13 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Suchit Dash: Connecting users around content vectors holds untapped potential
“And I think people, and actually oftentimes products, take sometimes lazy approaches to say, well, we need people to connect, so let's just make sure to put in a You know, a Facebook connection in here, or an address book connection in here, and actually more …”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 33:29 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Dash: Self-consciousness over voice hinders asynchronous video adoption
“Humans hate the sound of their own voice. There's a reason why we don't send asynchronous videos to one another. It's because whenever you're playing a video back to yourself, you kind of cringe at your own voice.”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 10:33 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Suchit Dash: Lip-Sync Products Are Weekly Party Tricks, Not Daily Habits
“DubSmash's itself of doing a lip sync product was not a daily use case at its core. It was a fun party trick. It was maybe a weekly use case.”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 17:03 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Dash: Creator monetization behaviors cascade down to micro-creators with 50 followers
“So what we saw was a user with 10,000 followers would say, Hey, I'll promote your account. Just hit me up on cash app for 50 bucks and I'll promote your account. But then we would see that behavior mimicked. So a user with 50 followers would say, Pay me five d…”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 29:48 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Dash: Tech M&A Requires Product Leader Buy-In, Not Corp Dev
“Look, with technology platform companies, you have to really connect with the product leader or the CEO. It's not really ever with the corp dev team or the business development team.”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 44:51 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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