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Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 9:52 Ben Gilbert Whatever it was, that people were like, Twitter's going down, like, it's gonna basically turn off tomorrow, and I, like, mentally knew this is a system that would degrade slowly and fade into irrelevance, not it's going to turn off…
- ▶ 11:01 Ben Gilbert Ok, Twitter doesn't exist tomorrow.
- ▶ 11:16 Ben Gilbert The number of new tidbits of information you can consume per minute in Twitter is high and reasonably low in TikTok.
- ▶ 11:25 David Rosenthal All right, well, I don't know how we got from T-Swift to Twitter and TikTok.
- ▶ 17:08 David Rosenthal This is part of why we haven't covered Twitter.
- ▶ 17:40 Ben Gilbert So it was one of these things where we're like, there's no daylight here for us to talk about it.
- ▶ 1:18:09 David Rosenthal We didn't, didn't do anything on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:18:16 David Rosenthal The Twitter is just,
- ▶ 1:18:23 Ben Gilbert I think part of the reason why we haven't done a Twitter episode since we interviewed Dick Costolo in early 20, 21, maybe.
- ▶ 1:19:02 Ben Gilbert To the extent that they can turn it around, and the business can be generating as much revenue as it was before on a massively lower cost basis.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 10:11 Ben Thompson And I just saw a thing on Twitter.
- ▶ 18:10 Ben Thompson I had like foreign and Twitter followers.
- ▶ 19:19 Ben Thompson And so I was responsible for social media other than Facebook and Twitter.
- ▶ 31:02 Ben Gilbert The world is shifting away from going directly to pages, and a lot of your readers are like, I'm just getting my news from Twitter and wherever else at this point, and I'm not doing the RSS thing.
- ▶ 35:59 Ben Thompson What a lot of people don't understand is I think a lot of writers give away way too much content on Twitter
- ▶ 36:04 Ben Thompson It's like, why should I read your site when you're just telling me everything you think on Twitter?
- ▶ 36:42 Ben Thompson I was the only person doing this sort of model out there, and there was still an era of 20 13 Twitter, 20 14 Twitter, where people would share links to something, and it would break through if it was consistently good.
- ▶ 37:10 Ben Thompson It's basically a Twitter article for all intents and purposes.
- ▶ 37:54 Ben Thompson oh yeah, I'm going to follow this guy on Twitter, or I'm going to put this site in my bookmarks, or I'm going to put my RSS reader or whatever it might be.
- ▶ 38:55 Ben Thompson The Twitter handle existed.
- ▶ 42:44 Ben Thompson So the thing I always was indexed on was Twitter followers, because that was a very clear metric of people who had affirmatively decided that they wanted to know what I had to say.
- ▶ 42:55 Ben Thompson But for a long time, my percentage of subscribers actually followed was a fixed percentage of my Twitter followers.
- ▶ 43:11 Ben Thompson So I had 500 Twitter followers when he posted that, and within 12 hours I had 1500 Twitter followers.
- ▶ 58:55 Ben Thompson You go to Twitter.
- ▶ 59:02 Ben Thompson And who's on Twitter?
- ▶ 59:05 Ben Thompson I'm one of the things I, I learned on Twitter about Twitter very early on was I would be very engaged on Twitter.
- ▶ 59:10 Ben Thompson I'd be responding to people.
- ▶ 59:42 Ben Thompson And so subscriptions give this feedback mechanism as feedback mechanism for people that will never email you, that will never contact
- ▶ 1:00:43 Ben Gilbert It's very different than like, if Apple decides to stop advertising on Twitter, it's like, oh crap.
- ▶ 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.
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