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Opinion
Russell: Facebook was a poor steward of Messenger's early developer platform
“My kind of read on this has been that Facebook hasn't been, let's say, the best steward of Messenger as a platform, for instance, for the first six to nine months of it, other than the kind of Bots that Facebook itself specifically highlighted and linked to in…”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:26 a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
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Google Arts & Culture Surpassed Messenger and YouTube in Downloads
“And this was so successful that ultimately the app became the most downloaded free app on both the app store iOS and also Google play for Android. And it was actually bigger than both messenger and YouTube, right?”
Andrew Chen Dec 8, 2018 ▶ 7:27 What's Next in Consumer Startups?
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