Snap Inc., every mention
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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:37 David Rosenthal Famously, Snapchat even pushed the envelope so far.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:14 David Rosenthal Yeah, I mean, there's Instagram, you know, and then copying stories from Snap.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:06:38 David Rosenthal During this period, you've got Snap and you've got WhatsApp, both of which are like pretty big deals.
- ▶ 4:06:46 David Rosenthal We've covered both of those pretty fully on separate episodes that you can go listen to, but I think ultimately what they represent, and obviously Snap was more a competitor and WhatsApp turned into an acquisition and is now a big part of…
- ▶ 4:07:36 Ben Gilbert The Instagram team noticed over time that even before Snap started eating their lunch that
- ▶ 4:08:32 David Rosenthal And Snap and WhatsApp were both really interesting data points about this.
- ▶ 4:08:38 David Rosenthal Snap also in its own way, there was the original Snapchat use case of disappearing one-to-one photo messaging, but Stories really is where it became clear, hey, this is widespread and this is a big problem that is gonna threaten Instagram,…
- ▶ 4:09:26 Ben Gilbert You know, Snap represents the idea that people are sharing way more if it's ephemeral, and WhatsApp represented the idea that people are shifting the places they communicate from more public to more private, and from larger groups to…
- ▶ 4:11:45 David Rosenthal Either way, Onavo ended up being, like, a hugely important acquisition for Facebook, because it really tipped them off to WhatsApp and Snap, too.
- ▶ 4:13:36 Ben Gilbert So, as they're looking around at Snap, hey, someone has discovered this new stories mechanic.
- ▶ 4:18:43 Ben Gilbert And then with Snap, they tried to buy Snap over and over again, and it didn't work, and so they basically figured out how to bring those mechanics into Facebook's core products with Stories in a way that Snap kept doing their thing, but…
- ▶ 4:19:13 David Rosenthal Stories as initially launched by Snap in the Snapchat app was a separate tab with a list of your friends who had published stories.
- ▶ 4:51:18 David Rosenthal Snap exists.
- ▶ 4:51:19 David Rosenthal Snap has launched stories.
- ▶ 4:51:21 David Rosenthal Instagram has now copied Snap and launched stories in that very same year.
- ▶ 5:32:43 Ben Gilbert Like you almost kind of want to do a seven powers analysis on the user side also of why would someone pick a meta product over a snap product?
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:16 David Rosenthal I mean, there really is another lens to view what happened with Snap, what happened with Musical.ly and
- ▶ 19:36 David Rosenthal Snap's a public company now, but like it's no Facebook.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 58:24 Ben Gilbert Before Snap, before Discord, before Riot?
- ▶ 58:27 Mitch Lasky Uh, right around the same time as Snap.
- ▶ 58:31 Ben Gilbert But Snap, you know, you didn't know it was going to be Snap yet.
- ▶ 58:34 Mitch Lasky Yeah, Snap was still pretty small at that point.
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…
- ▶ 2:40:51 David Rosenthal That is the name of the company and several other gaming investments, but also snap and discord big, big, big time wins.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 2:49:16 David Rosenthal Uber, Snap, Discord, that gaming company, Stitch Fix, Duo Security, Docker, Elastic, Nextdoor, and WeWork.
- ▶ 2:52:12 David Rosenthal Like Mitch did snap, you know, but the point is, it doesn't matter.
- ▶ 2:54:36 Ben Gilbert You got February, 2018, Benchmark sold almost half of its stake in Snap and realized a billion dollars in gains somewhere.
- ▶ 2:54:54 David Rosenthal And to rewind to Snap for a minute, Benchmark, I think, was instrumental in encouraging pushing Snap to go public as soon as they did.
- ▶ 2:55:04 David Rosenthal That remember, we did that whole episode way back in the early days of like, holy crap, Snap is going public after like four years of existence.
- ▶ 3:42:53 Ben Gilbert Uber, Snap, eBay, Riot, Twitter, Discord is still privately held, but, you know, will be a big win.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:12:21 Ben Gilbert I remember thinking how insane it was when Snap went public after, what was it, four years?
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:34 Ben Gilbert Even if Mystery was Snap size, I don't think they would shake their pluckiness.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:59 Ben Gilbert I think for Snap, the idea was to like build music into the Discover tab that they owned or something.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:48:29 Packy McCormick There was one, there's somebody who DM me after I wrote the piece on Solana actually, that was like, man, I miss the old Paki when you would give us alpha and you'd be early on things like snap or whatever.