Active Users
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Pitch 
Latent Space 
Lenny's Podcast 
Top Founders 
20VC
7 statements about Active Users, every show
Cheng: Chess.com active users are ~80% existing, with new and resurrected users equal
“I think probably eighties percent of our Daily or weekly active users. I mean, I'll check the numbers, but something like that would be like a current user or an existing user, and then a new and a like reactivated or resurrected user. Those are actually about…”
Zach Lloyd: Warp has almost 600,000 active users
“You know, it's like almost 600,000 active users on Warp right now.”
Peltier: Shimmur active users grew to 230,000 post-pitch
“Yeah, I think we're at about a 160,000 active users.
[1967] Matthew Peltier: since then we've grown to about 230,000.”
AJ Tennant: Fast product launch and active usage make SaaS retention trivial
“Because if you nail in a systematic way time to launch quickly and you get active users, GRR is just an afterthought. It's going to be, it's not going to be a problem, right? If you have people using the service and they're using, getting deployed quickly.”
Meyer: Active usage is the most ungameable product value metric
“Things like, ah, active users, like daily, weekly, etc., depending on, you know, enterprise or consumer, time is so precious. If people are spending time in your product, there's value there. Now, it might be never, ah, credible to revenue value, right? That's…”
Adora Cheung: Revenue is always the best primary metric for startups
“Revenue is always the best metric. I pay you a hundred dollars to use your product, your software. I must at least value that a hundred dollars. Active users, ah, using the product once a week, or, ah, once a day, we call that weekly active user or daily activ…”