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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 25:22 Dara Khosrowshahi From Google, Meta, Instagram, you know, all of these other channels combined.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:24 David Rosenthal I'm gonna post a story on Instagram just on a beach with a drink.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 4:35 Ben Miller That's almost like a combination of an investor report and Instagram story.
- ▶ 1:18:49 David Rosenthal Like, like Uber, like Instagram, like it was early, but there was data proving it.
- ▶ 1:37:15 Eric Vishria You know, Mitch with Snapchat, um, and, and Discord, and Matt having just come off Instagram, um, among others, and
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:35 Ben Gilbert Instagram.
- ▶ 1:37:37 Jason Calacanis Like, yeah, when they bought Instagram, they're like, 30 people work at this company, and they gave them a billion dollars.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24 Ben Gilbert Semiconductor and networking companies like Synopsys and Juniper Networks, and of course, in the next generation, OpenTable, Zillow, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, WeWork, Snap, Riot Games, Asana, Discord, New Relic, and our friends of the show…
- ▶ 2:27:58 Ben Gilbert Instagram wouldn't have been yet.
- ▶ 2:43:28 David Rosenthal You were still looking at early data, but you could look at an Instagram, you could look at an Uber, you could look at a Snap, and you could look at the data and you could say, my God, this is working.
- ▶ 2:46:09 David Rosenthal Instagram's in that fund.
- ▶ 2:46:25 Ben Gilbert I don't remember the valuation of Instagram Series A.
- ▶ 2:46:39 Ben Gilbert Instagram was one of their investments where it sold 48 hours after they invested.
- ▶ 2:46:53 David Rosenthal So, uh, Instagram's in that fund.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:42 David Rosenthal Dropbox, Instagram, Airbnb, Uber, Zynga, all of these companies.
- ▶ 1:31:28 David Rosenthal Airbnb, Uber, you know, Instagram and the like.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 26:47 Ben Gilbert Or if you came to me 10 years ago and said Facebook bought Instagram and they're demonstrating their ability to constantly keep all the consumer attention
- ▶ 1:33:08 Howard Marks My wife and I both quit Instagram this summer.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 23:52 Ben Gilbert Things that hit me when, you know, of course I follow Jeff on, on Instagram and you see him in sort of his cowboy boots with the blue origin rocket.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 1:02:55 David Rosenthal That's the last, you know, cool thing about this, which is that thanks to Substack, podcasting, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, it's never been easier.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:26 David Rosenthal Is like, is autonomous vehicles because if people are being driven instead of driving, that's more time there on Instagram.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 50:02 David Rosenthal Google changes YouTube algorithms, Facebook changes Instagram or Facebook algorithms, and like, it completely wipes the table of whole, you know, sectors of creators.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:59 David Rosenthal I mean, the Instagram following and the Twitter following of the top instructors is like, they have immense power.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 45:00 unnamed speaker And, and to contextualize this, this is before Instagram has launched.
- ▶ 1:04:12 Ben Gilbert And if you look at her Instagram follower count today of just about to hit two hundred million, she is indeed for everyone.
- ▶ 1:46:16 Ben Gilbert And what's not totally clear, and it doesn't need to be public, because people can have private spats, is like, ok, so he bandaged Kanye during that time, there was one thing on Instagram that Justin Bieber posted at one point that had…
- ▶ 2:03:19 Ben Gilbert So Taylor Swift has an astonishing two hundred million followers on Instagram, which makes her the 14th most followed in the world.
- ▶ 2:03:48 Ben Gilbert And it's, as I was just looking through who has the most influence on Instagram that just did like total reach that the Kardashian, Jenner, West, I know they're not together anymore, but that team Kanye has is nuts.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:35 Ben Gilbert And, uh, you know, classically, Instagram's your A+, uh, they turned a billion dollars into, like, half a trillion, and, you know, other, lots of examples of ones that are way worse.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:16:54 Ben Gilbert Yeah, this is why I was saying that Facebook is the most similar thing to Standard Oil, and just to be extremely blunt about it, Facebook buying Instagram and WhatsApp is a lot like Standard Oil's Cleveland Massacre and, um, you know, the…
Adapting (by Acquired) Episode 1: Canlis · Acquired
- ▶ 25:40 Mark Canlis You could just post on Instagram
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