The Ledger

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Jordan: Premier networks like Facebook and WhatsApp skip paid user acquisition
“A lot of the best networks that are platformed here aren't spending anything on, on acquisition. I mean, it's just, it's kind of an interesting thing in marketplace. Facebook, no. WhatsApp, no. Medium, no. You know, just OpenTable, no. Just, you know, just, th…”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:13 a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
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Evans: Publishing via distribution platforms is a deal with the devil
“If you want to get read, you've got to be in some kind of a platform that's giving your audience, and increasingly that means Facebook, or it means Medium, or it means LinkedIn, or it means some other intermediate platform that kind of comes with an implicit a…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:24 a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
Insight
Milosevic: Public blog posts are effective internal communication tools for founders
“Using Medium as a vehicle to talk about what they're doing As a company, wasn't just useful for them to get it out there to the public, but was also a really useful vehicle for them to reinforce all this stuff internally. It's like, it's funny, it's all the sa…”
Kim Milosevich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:59 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
Insight
Rosenthal: VR is the first medium without pre-defined content formats
“One of the things that's super interesting about VR is it's kind of the first, ah, medium of media where the formats aren't defined and locked in from the very beginning. There's lots and lots of, ah, experimentation because it's kind of the first, ah, the fir…”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:36 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hariharan: Medium is the primary traffic source for non-viral tail posts
“For the non-viral posts, medium is actually the biggest source for the traffic, which was, you know, early indicators that they are able to match.”
Anu Hariharan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:50 a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
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