The Ledger

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Assertion Contradicted
Evans: Global annual photos taken likely reaches 10 to 100 trillion
“Even if you just add up the numbers from Facebook and Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and so on, you get to about eight or nine hundred billion photographs taken last year. And that's just, sorry, shared. So if there were eight or nine hundred bi…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:30 a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Snapchat innovated by back-loading employee equity vesting into year four
“Snapchat, I think is doing a very interesting innovation by having most of the vesting occur later in the fourth year, as opposed to in the first year.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:57 a16z Podcast | Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
Assertion Partly supported
Russell: Snapchat has 150M daily active users using AR filters
“Well, we're already expressing ourselves every day, one hundred and fifty million daily active users expressing ourselves with these filters that Apply these three D models and textures to our faces because we think that that reflects our personality at that p…”
Kyle Russell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:36 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Assertion Supported
Evans: Direct traffic accounts for only one-quarter of BuzzFeed content views
“There's a great chart from BuzzFeed, information from BuzzFeed on where people watch content on BuzzFeed. And, you know, it's one quarter is direct, and then it's YouTube and Facebook video and Facebook images and Snapchat.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:27 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
Assertion Supported
Evans: 800 billion photos were shared on social networks in 2014
“2014, at least eight hundred billion photographs were shared on social networks across Facebook, Snapchat WeChat, and the other major networks.”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 19:45 Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
Assertion Supported
Snapchat Streaks Require Three Consecutive Days of Video or Image Exchanges
“What that meant on Snapchat is I sent you a video, not a text, not a chat, a video, a snap, or image, image or video, and you sent me back something in a 24 hour period as well. And streak doesn't appear until three days of doing that.”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 17:35 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
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