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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitter comes up
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:06:28 Ben Thompson I think the ability to spread on social media on Twitter has really diminished.
- ▶ 1:06:32 Ben Thompson You know, Twitter famously really started devaluing tweets with links a few years ago, which I think has made the product much worse.
- ▶ 1:07:22 Ben Thompson Whereas if you're reading something, it's super easy to tweet it or to forward the email.
- ▶ 1:12:36 Ben Thompson I know I have critics I hear about on Twitter who think I already am.
- ▶ 1:16:31 Ben Thompson And so they share it for free on Twitter, right?
- ▶ 1:16:33 Ben Thompson If someone makes like a really cool new piece of clothing or accessory, like people aren't going to talk about that on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:19:17 Ben Thompson It's been Christmas for him over there because of the Twitter stuff, but that's fine.
- ▶ 1:19:21 Ben Thompson I feel guilty right about Twitter too often.
- ▶ 1:19:30 Ben Thompson Like I really didn't want to know Twitter.
- ▶ 1:19:31 Ben Thompson Obviously Twitter take on Apple is going to be, everyone's been anticipating it.
- ▶ 1:19:42 Ben Thompson So he's written about Twitter every single day for like a month.
- ▶ 1:19:49 Ben Thompson Hey, if you want Twitter coverage every single day, go read Casey.
- ▶ 1:25:47 Ben Thompson I think actually one of the biggest mistakes Twitter made, and it's understandable.
- ▶ 1:25:51 Ben Thompson No one could have seen it at the time, but Twitter should have had disappearing tweets from day one.
- ▶ 1:26:01 Ben Thompson People experience it and think of it as a in the moment product, and then are stuck with this archive that induces fear, induces ruin, and it reduces the frisson of what it's like to be on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:26:14 Ben Thompson That's a big reason why Twitter is not what it used to be, because now people are scared.
- ▶ 1:47:34 Ben Thompson I still remember the first time I had a company very angry at me and calling me in and it was Twitter actually.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:09 Eric Vishria Like, Peter was working on Twitter at the time, obviously, Bill with Uber,
- ▶ 1:54:10 Peter Fenton I've read these books about us at Uber or Twitter or WeWork.
- ▶ 1:55:20 Peter Fenton And it doesn't change unless there's some catastrophic event where it has to get reborn, but good luck with Elon at Twitter.
- ▶ 1:55:49 Ben Gilbert I thought you meant Twitter.
- ▶ 1:55:50 Ben Gilbert we had Twitter.
- ▶ 1:55:51 David Rosenthal No, no Twitter.
- ▶ 1:55:54 David Rosenthal We have a, we have a, actually, there's been a lot of discussion in the quiet Slack about, like, why have you guys not covered Elon on Twitter?
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 25:13 Jason Calacanis And, you know, Freeberg didn't even have a Twitter handle.
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…
- ▶ 2:37:50 David Rosenthal In short order, Peter goes on to do Twitter, Docker, Zora, Hortonworks, New Relic, Elastic.
- ▶ 2:38:19 Ben Gilbert And unbelievably, Brett has gone on with the Quip acquisition by Salesforce to become the president, co-CEO of Salesforce with Marc Benioff, and also is the chairman of the board at Twitter, who is the central spokesperson for this ongoing…
- ▶ 2:52:02 Ben Gilbert Doing the Twitter investment to New Relic.
- ▶ 3:25:44 David Rosenthal A link to their Twitter feed.
- ▶ 3:25:46 Ben Gilbert Which of course lists their announced portfolio companies in a Twitter list.
- ▶ 3:42:53 Ben Gilbert Uber, Snap, eBay, Riot, Twitter, Discord is still privately held, but, you know, will be a big win.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:16:19 David Rosenthal You know, you had that great playbook theme and takeaway from the amazon.com episode that I think you posted as a clip on Twitter and LinkedIn that went so viral and people who were original Amazon employees loved it, which was your idea…
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 4:13 Christina Cacioppo Yeah, so I think at a high level, a lot of actually what's said on Twitter and the advice that's given out is really good.
- ▶ 1:32:49 Andrew Marks Well, I was on Twitter for a little bit.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:23:01 Ben Gilbert I mean, it's one of these situations, it's like an Uber or a Twitter, where you have this idea, and then you put it up, and then that's exactly the thing that people want.
- ▶ 2:32:35 Ben Gilbert He was brought in to Twitter and then worked as a pseudo nefarious agent on behalf of the board to oust the CEO.
- ▶ 2:32:47 David Rosenthal No, it's not just Twitter.
- ▶ 2:32:57 David Rosenthal So it wasn't just Twitter, Apple.
- ▶ 4:20:03 Ben Gilbert It's like the Justin Bieber server at Twitter.
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:50 Anthony Gonzalez And, uh, you know, they would give me this, you know, some of these explanations that you'd be hearing on like these Q and on boards and on, on Twitter and whatnot.
- ▶ 38:25 Anthony Gonzalez And you see the people start to go and, and I flipped on my Twitter and, you know, you could see,
- ▶ 45:48 Anthony Gonzalez So, you know, you, you follow on Twitter, you see the votes and all that, all that's fine and good, but like real work actually happens in committee.
- ▶ 1:34:51 Anthony Gonzalez And like it, everybody's on Twitter, get on there and look at the things like it's, it's really easy.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 34:46 David Rosenthal Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Ford, Stripe, Starbucks, Fidelity, Convoy, Modern Treasury.
- ▶ 43:46 David Rosenthal Yes, and this is from our friends over at Altos Ventures, and in particular Ho Nam, uh, and he makes this great point, he actually just remade it on Twitter the other day, which is,
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:09 Katherine Boyle Like, I think a lot of it is Twitter.
- ▶ 39:11 Katherine Boyle I was pre-Twitter actually becoming what it is when I was at the Washington Post, and there was still a view that social media should be second to our actual reporting.
- ▶ 39:19 Katherine Boyle I think that is, if you read the recent reports from the New York Times about how they're trying to kind of curtail their Twitter use, because they've realized that it's completely
- ▶ 50:15 David Rosenthal Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Autodesk.
- ▶ 57:03 Katherine Boyle A couple of years before COVID, people would mock people who spent too much time on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:19:33 Katherine Boyle On Twitter.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:03 David Rosenthal They work with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Autodesk.
- ▶ 1:07:46 Ben Gilbert I think, you know, David and I don't need to debate this endlessly, like you can hear the, the drum beats on Twitter of how much the market is changing, but, um, you know, the reality is it is, and where everyone has to play the game on…
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 15:43 Packy McCormick Apparently it's possible to get into the equity tranche of Elon's Twitter Take Private.
- ▶ 15:55 Packy McCormick He's aggressively, so if any of you want a piece of the Twitter Take Private, 43, 44, whatever, billion dollars.
- ▶ 16:45 Packy McCormick So the Twitter thesis, and this isn't the pick, but the Twitter thesis is that everybody in this room, half of us are here because of Twitter.
- ▶ 16:55 Packy McCormick If you polled the audience, the average that it would take to pull people off of Twitter,
- ▶ 16:59 Packy McCormick Twitter has to be in the hundreds, if not thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars, yet they're monetizing, like, Android right now, right?
- ▶ 17:06 Packy McCormick Like, Twitter needs to be the Apple of social media.
- ▶ 17:13 Packy McCormick The board doesn't use Twitter.
- ▶ 17:23 Packy McCormick If, if the eighty million people who use Twitter in the U.S. paid three dollars a month, you're looking
- ▶ 17:55 Packy McCormick What's app of the U.S., kind of on the Twitter platform, where you have all of these valuable, passionate users.
- ▶ 19:12 Packy McCormick Housing is a multi-trillion dollar market, and everybody in the country, it seems like this past year, learned how awful that process is, and so this is a point, and I've written about the company, but this is a point that I am taking from…
- ▶ 22:34 Ben Gilbert There's a Twitter one that I had too, which is buy Twitter right now, because there's free five dollar bills attached to every single share.
- ▶ 22:46 Ben Gilbert If you think that Elon is actually going to close this deal and pay out every single Twitter shareholder at 54 dollars and 20 cents per share,
- ▶ 22:56 Ben Gilbert You can go buy a Twitter share right now for, like, 49 bucks or 50 bucks.
- ▶ 36:49 Shu Nyatta By the way, the consensus pick is Twitter.
- ▶ 41:00 Ben Gilbert NotBoring.co, ReadTheGeneralist.com, you should follow Shu on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:00:28 Anu Hariharan And on continuity, it's Ali and I, Ali Rogani, who was the former CEO of Twitter and CFO of Pixar, so we both run the continuity fund.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:13 Ben Gilbert Uber and Twitter and Autodesk and a bunch of other great now customers.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:44 David Rosenthal Just look at the Robinhood GameStop situation, or Zoom bombing, or anything on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:45:52 Brad Gerstner Yeah, I would say follow me at Altcap on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:45:55 Brad Gerstner I encourage all of our analysts to be on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:46:05 Brad Gerstner Like, I don't like to be a cheerleader on Twitter, um, but I do like and encourage our analysts to pressure test their ideas.
- ▶ 1:46:25 Brad Gerstner And so, I think, I always say to people, if they're interested to learn more about Altimeter, just follow this incredible group of analysts on Twitter.
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:15 Ben Gilbert It turns out a whole bunch of consumers who did these virtual in-home experiences in April of 2020 also worked at places like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, McKinsey, Uber, Twitter, Autodesk, etc.
- ▶ 1:02:50 Brian Koppelman So that, and then, yeah, if you want to find me, I'm on Twitter at Brian Koppelman, but ask before you send me your manuscript.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:24 Ben Gilbert Well, it turns out a bunch of consumers who did these virtual in-home experiences in April of 2020 also worked at places like Amazon and Microsoft and Apple and McKinsey and Uber and Twitter and Autodesk.
- ▶ 1:41:48 Brendan Eich I'm on Twitter as Brendan Eich.
- ▶ 1:42:04 Brendan Eich And on Twitter, the Brave handle is called at Brave.
- ▶ 1:42:12 Brendan Eich That's another Twitter handle.
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
- ▶ 57:35 David Rosenthal What, what was better for both of their follower accounts on, you know, Twitter's just starting to come up at this point in time.
- ▶ 57:43 David Rosenthal Uh, this is probably right around the same time as the famous, uh, race to a million followers right on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:20:14 David Rosenthal The two sentences before that in the quote, which of course she posts to Twitter and Tumblr on her own social media to her own,
- ▶ 1:21:06 David Rosenthal Eddie Q tweets, we hear you at Taylor Swift, because of course her Twitter handle is Taylor Swift, their team and indie artists.
- ▶ 2:17:41 unnamed speaker You have the opportunity by going viral to get an insane amount of free marketing on places like TikTok, where she's always commenting back and forth with fans, or Spotify playlists, or Tumblr, Twitter, yeah.
- ▶ 2:18:09 unnamed speaker The VMA's incident wouldn't be the VMA's incident without Twitter.
- ▶ 2:18:19 unnamed speaker Kanye grabs the microphone and there's no Twitter.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:13 Mario Gabriele Like, you are incredibly attuned to pop culture in an interesting way, crypto in an interesting way, certainly the markets, um, and I think it's part of the reason that you're, like, uncommonly popular on Twitter, and so it, it feels like…
- ▶ 1:49:04 Sam Bankman-Fried Yeah, I mean, like, my Twitter is like, I, you know, certainly a good place to look.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 48:18 Ben Gilbert But what I do have is, uh, his personal Twitter following as of every month along the way.
- ▶ 49:00 Packy McCormick Like there are all these people with a big Twitter following or a big audience.
- ▶ 1:01:49 Ben Gilbert I'm going to assume somewhere end of the second trimester, beginning of the third trimester, you're at 3500 Twitter followers when you get that question.
- ▶ 1:02:00 Ben Gilbert You're already up to 12,000 Twitter followers.
- ▶ 1:03:16 Packy McCormick This internet thing has been pretty amazing and Twitter has been pretty great.
- ▶ 1:10:36 Packy McCormick And if you use Twitter, you've probably gotten a sponsored tweet from him about using main street also happens to be a phenomenal guy.
- ▶ 1:11:32 Ben Gilbert So still at 10,000 ish Twitter followers.
- ▶ 1:11:35 Packy McCormick Still at 10,010 thousand ish Twitter followers.