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Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with Connie Chan
- ▶ 13:41 Connie Chan I mean, during that time there was the app store, there was Facebook, there was Instagram, there was Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:22 Connie Chan Instagram, TikTok, YouTube creators that fall into that bucket of expertise.
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 20:57 Danny Postma So this is why people keep sharing it on Instagram, on TikTok, it goes viral really fast.
- ▶ 29:06 Danny Postma And I wouldn't be surprised if, if any social media is going to do this soon, because Instagram already has photos of your face, right?
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 3:39 Chris Schroeder We have this conventional wisdom that if you even use social media in this form, you want to have influentials in Instagram that had a million followers and two million followers.
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 3:17 Trevor McFedries Public polling was tied to the ratings of that show, and so it seemed like there was an emergent new media, um, social, you know, Instagram, like, kind of, like, visual platforms that could be used for telling fictional stories, and that…
- ▶ 8:09 Trevor McFedries Pretty clear to me that there were these, like, underserved, really passionate audiences in Latin America, and so, you know, if you ever look at some, like, pop stars Instagram, 10% of the comments are, come to Brazil, come to Brazil, come…
- ▶ 12:03 Isaac Bratzel Like, people see Mikayla on Instagram, they have a reaction, right?
- ▶ 17:46 unnamed speaker I guess today the technology is getting better, but like, what are the technologies that are going into creating little Michaela and then not just look Michaela on Instagram, but these music videos, I think she's on Spotify.
- ▶ 18:02 Isaac Bratzel I think that there's a huge, um, I would say an order, order of magnitude difference between like the still images on Instagram and doing actual walkworm animated content, right?
- ▶ 28:41 Trevor McFedries I look at my Instagram feed and it's a lot of, like, scripted pranks or things that are, you know, led to make people believe that are real.
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 28:39 Olivia Moore And I feel like a lot of sellers on marketplaces in the past maybe year, year and a half have probably tried posting a TikTok or an Instagram reel for the first time.
- ▶ 35:13 Zach Cohen So you see like Instagram, you know, maybe five years ago, you'd go on to connect and see what your friends are doing. 2 times in the scene
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 29:28 Sriram Krishnan You want to cut it up into short versions for a reels or a TikTok.
- ▶ 29:48 Sriram Krishnan And, but a lot of other platforms have discovery mechanisms like, you know, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, obviously.
- ▶ 35:57 Sriram Krishnan We've seen the rise of YouTube, and then Instagram, and then Snapchat, and then TikTok, and then BDL, and, uh, you know, Discord, and, you know, I can keep going on and on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:57 Aarthi Ramamurthy We want Insta Reels. 2 times in the scene
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 16:01 Steph Smith So you can generate these beautiful images of these Instagram looking models and you can put them in all these different backgrounds and you're like, wow, this is amazing.
- ▶ 20:48 Guy Parsons I spent ages trying to get this kind of vintage film look, but if you're like an Instagram influencer, you know, which I'm sure you are, um, who isn't?
- ▶ 24:33 Steph Smith And then I also, in terms of these visual styles, I mean, it reminds me of, you mentioned Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:33 Guy Parsons Content so good that it's like better than Netflix or like better than Instagram or better than it's like, it's the hobby of doing it.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 27:24 Amjad Masad I mean, anytime you make something more accessible, you just get the entire gamut of things like Instagram made photography way more accessible and you get like a, like a long tail of crappy photographs, but you also discover people who…
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 3:31 Steph Smith And again, I'm feeling kind of old here, but during my era, you know, we're, we're thinking of Facebook, we're thinking of Twitter, um, Instagram, Snapchat, and none of these appeared in the top three. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 Steph Smith I don't like the fact that everyone looks like a supermodel on Instagram.
- ▶ 8:36 Olivia Moore My view is that TikTok, Instagram reels, and these other short form video platforms have created this very unique opportunity where you can go viral
- ▶ 11:05 Olivia Moore Like, think about the early days of Instagram, like, as more of your friends came on Instagram, it was a better experience for you and a better experience for them because you were seeing a lot more posts of, from people that you know and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Olivia Moore Again, like, low cost for now, great channel for now, similar to how Instagram and Facebook ads got so much more expensive.
- ▶ 23:00 Olivia Moore There used to be this kind of paradigm in consumer where the goal was to build an app, get it to the mainstream, get it to Facebook level, Instagram level, millions, if not hundreds of millions of users, and then you would monetize people…
- ▶ 43:27 Olivia Moore This is to me comparable to the moment for millennials where Selena Gomez was like, I can't go on Instagram anymore.
- ▶ 43:45 Olivia Moore I think Instagram reels and YouTube shorts benefit from that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:27 Olivia Moore Instagram is trying to build this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:00 Steph Smith It's a great point, this idea of, like, reducing attention spans and what comes next, because if you think about it, it used to be, like, you read, like, a 10 minute long article, people got bored of that, then you watched a, like, five… 4 times in the scene
The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 6:21 unnamed speaker And then you have that sort of change where now you have AOC and people going completely direct to their audience on live streams on TikTok and Instagram.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 2:23 Steph Smith I'm just going to use Instagram as an example here. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:29 Connie Chan Now the creators who are big on Instagram might not be the best sellers.
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 17:58 Karen X. Cheng So if you go on my Instagram on Karen X. 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 38:11 Steph Smith So another example that you've given is the power of 12 Instagram engineers to beat 12,000 from Kodak, right?
- ▶ 1:08:19 Balaji Srinivasan Billions of people with smartphones, and they've got experience with Instagram, and you've got the app store, and you've got this, and you've got that.
- ▶ 2:06:53 Balaji Srinivasan Instagram is pride and so on and so forth, right?
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 6:33 Steph Smith I think you originally, um, uploaded your first Musical.ly in like, 2017, and even in 2019, I think I saw you say in a video you had around 10,000 followers on Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:35 Karen X. Cheng Most companies will have different strengths, and then they'll continue to be able to differentiate by sort of specializing in that, but I do imagine that some of these companies are gonna buy other companies, and then so they'll like, you…
- ▶ 29:27 Karen X. Cheng So if you go on my Instagram, on Karen X. 2 times in the scene
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 15:18 Devin Finzer So if you think about Instagram today, you're creating all of this interesting content, but much, most of the value is being captured by the platform itself, kind of due to how the business models work, right?
NFTs and the Creator Economy
- ▶ 8:19 Kayvon Turanian Photographers have been sharing their photos on Instagram to enormous viral success.
- ▶ 17:20 Kayvon Turanian So we, we actually require you to attach, um, both your Twitter and Instagram to prove your identity.
From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
- ▶ 8:06 Seth Sivak They're all getting shared as animated GIFs now, whether it be through TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever it is.
- ▶ 27:54 Seth Sivak We, we have a lot, like, Spellbreak has a lot of views, um, but at the end of the day, the vast majority of the stuff that's getting shared for Spellbreak is still gameplay clips, um, whether it's TikTok or Instagram or any of these other…
Four Trends in Consumer Tech
- ▶ 12:07 Connie Chan We started leveraging the camera, we started leveraging the GPS, and that brought us great companies like Instagram or Lyft.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 19:55 Frank Chen So imagine you were just using Instagram or your smart mirror, and all of a sudden alert pops up and says, hey, do you want me to send all these pictures to your doctor?
The Architecture of Crypto Innovation
- ▶ 15:06 Neha Narula Let's take Instagram, for example. 4 times in the scene
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 37:19 Chris Dixon Um, I think of it as like, what if like, here's a sort of metaphor, but like, like the fact that that photos are just a file format that you can send to people, allowed people to invent Facebook and Instagram.
The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- ▶ 24:27 Andrew Chen That basically you have, um, YouTube, you have, um, you know, TikTok, you have Instagram videos, you have Facebook videos, um, where there's literally now billions upon billions of people who are viewing this stuff.
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 7:12 unnamed speaker This one seems like a pretty straightforward application of Metcalfe's law, which is social networks, which is, look, Instagram is powerful because when I share my 2 times in the scene
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 45:07 Alex Rampell Surrender one percent of our market cap to buy Instagram.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 6:35 Qasar Younis The iPhone moment in my mind is when you have, um, you know, frankly, the 12 or 24 month period where Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, and WhatsApp are all some,
- ▶ 16:51 Qasar Younis We can draw the Instagram analogy now because we're in 2019 and not 2005.
- ▶ 48:01 Qasar Younis It's a phone app on a specific platform for a specific celebrity and just their fans, because everybody else can just consume Instagram or something else.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 11:23 Ryan Caldbeck They can say, this person who I can, by the way, I can match Sonal's, uh, what her purchasing power to your Instagram account.
- ▶ 19:17 Ryan Caldbeck I exclusively shop through Instagram.
- ▶ 33:33 Ryan Caldbeck I see the same brand being sold in Whole Foods, being talked about on Instagram, etc.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 12:05 Connie Chan Mobile allows you to have these bite-sized snacks rather than, you know, opening your Instagram newsfeed.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 8:51 Ben Horowitz You can now build things like Instagram that you could never build on a PC, and you still can't build on a PC.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 30:53 Brian McCullough It's about the quality, like the way that you'll differentiate and become the new Instagram and become the new
- ▶ 31:34 Chris Dixon It's sort of, you know, broadband, smartphones, applications are the word processor, mosaic, eBay, you know, websites, Instagram, things like that, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Chris Dixon Yeah, well, Instagram story, Snapchat would be the most.
- ▶ 36:50 Chris Dixon Like, there's only so many times Facebook can add, keep adding features to Instagram without, you know, without, like, the thing becoming 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 25:05 Sonal Chokshi And, you know, even influencers on Instagram who are not Kim Kardashian can monetize their followings.
a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
- ▶ 9:22 Meg Whitman And today you're checking, you know, Instagram or social networking, you're
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 12:13 Jeff Jordan You've got all these new formats on Snap, on YouTube, on Instagram.
- ▶ 17:22 Zach Wiener There are some plays that we have that are shot both with an iPhone and a real camera, and we've tested this on Instagram, and it actually performs better when you shoot it with an iPhone.
- ▶ 18:44 Yogi Roth Whoa, these guys are in love with him because of his IG, because of his persona, of course, of how he plays, but that's just the barrier of entry. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 19:47 Dennis Nazarov I want to post it on Instagram. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 18:46 Jeff Jordan Instagram had a smile. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 19:03 Andrew Chen All of these different brick and mortar experiences that are making themselves highly Instagrammable. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 3:26 Chris Dixon Take advantage of the fact that you have the phone with you all the time, and you have GPS, and the driver has GPS, or, you know, Snapchat and Instagram, take advantage of the camera that you always have with you, and you can do…
a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
- ▶ 3:03 Chris Dixon It allowed, for example, you know, Uber and Lyft and Instagram and all sorts of things to focus just on the kind of application development side of things, so it allowed app developers to be app developers, and provided the phone operating…
a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- ▶ 20:21 Brandon Ballinger And, and I mean, you need to measure cohorts the same way Instagram or Facebook or Snapchat does.
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 13:54 Benedict Evans But everyone is using, like, two or three of them, and that kind of rolled out in, like, 2008, nine, 10, and that gave us Instagram and WhatsApp and, like, a hundred other smaller ones.
a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
- ▶ 6:49 Sonal Chokshi Like on Snapchat and Instagram and everything with filters.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 13:03 Steven Sinofsky You know, between WhatsApp and Instagram, Oculus, and so on, that are, are run as very distinct entities, and they don't overlay some grand strategy about what's going to go where, and who's going to do what, when, and tie all the pieces… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Steven Sinofsky and you watch how that they've dealt with WhatsApp and Instagram, and they've kept them
a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
- ▶ 13:30 Derek Thompson Completely adored and considered the center of the universe, and Snapchat celebrities and Instagram influencers and all of this, but it's very likely that
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 11:34 Kyle Russell They announced something called an AR content studio where basically the Facebook Messenger Instagram cameras are going to be an AR camera app platform. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 36:37 Sonal Chokshi Instagram, I mean, I think of that as a democratizing tool for creators who are not
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 5:18 unnamed speaker If the things all make sense to you, like when you're scrolling through an Instagram feed, they're all photos.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 14:40 Anu Hariharan Uh, if you look at the original, when they launched Instagram, uh, the people who tweeted it, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 12:45 Anu Hariharan Which is usually you see vital growth, you know, like for, let's take Instagram, for example, people saw photos on Facebook.
- ▶ 32:00 Ryan Hoover And they've in many ways replaced some of the behaviors on Instagram or Facebook. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 5:37 Kyle Russell So comparing and contrasting approaches from these big incumbents, uh, looking at Apple's focus on privacy, you know, they talked about how they want to enable you to see things like, oh, faces and locations that pull up across your photo…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 23:02 Balaji Srinivasan One thing I think about AR is, if that kind of thing can work, I think you can have what we think of as, like, the Instagramification of many more things, in the sense that, what is Instagram? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 3:57 Evan Burfield Maybe someone's going to invent the next best way after Snapchat and Instagram to share photos, but at a certain point, it feels like you're getting into really incremental improvements, and you've got to be so sharp on your game if you…
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 36:47 Ezra Klein Because all of a sudden, I mean, let's say we create a great data interactive, which is something we do a lot at Vox, and that interactive, it can't be in a Facebook Instagram.
a16z Podcast | I Reject the Term Viral Video
- ▶ 0:29 Michael Copeland Nystad is joined on this segment of the pod by Bailey Richardson, one of the early team members at Instagram.
- ▶ 1:00 Bailey Richardson Um, working at Instagram really early on, one of the things that we did was we put people on suggested users, we wrote about them, and if you weren't already famous, if you weren't Kim Kardashian or Justin Bieber, that was sort of the only…
- ▶ 14:04 Bailey Richardson I, from my perspective of at least how we grew Instagram, we started out with this core audience of people that were photographers and designers, and that's actually who we went and spoke to when we released the app, and who we promoted…
- ▶ 23:05 Bailey Richardson I wanna go back to, um, this, like, sort of, this, like, incredible bullshit sensor that young, especially young people have now, and one thing we were talking about just before walking out was how, especially kids today, and I think…
- ▶ 24:06 Casey Neistat Um, a very literal, literal example of that is like, this is the kind of video that goes on Instagram. 2 times in the scene