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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Adobe Flash comes up on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, 20VC, Top Founders, the a16z Podcast, A Product Market Fit Show
Navigating Early-Stage Growth and Revenue Alignment
Post Earnings with Figma CEO Dylan Field
- ▶ 14:10 Dylan Field So we had the flash era geo cities, like I'm not saying it was high quality era, but there was a lot of variation.
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 1:27:30 unnamed speaker Flash.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 7:58 Benedict Evans Um, and then there was AOL, and Pointcast, and Flash, and plugins, and portals, and Netscape, and everything, no one kind of knew what questions to ask, and how any of this was going to work, and, and, and, and Google was five years away,…
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 26:01 Dylan Field And I think overall, the other thing I'd say is you look back at the flash era of the web. 2 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 52:03 Steven Sinofsky And I think it's gonna happen in everything that's text and everything, which was, there were these digital native ad agencies that just knew how to use flash.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 6:49 Abhinav Asthana And, and we were just, you know, copy projects, whoever was a designer in Vogue, you know, at that time, the web designers, like if they were using flash and action script, so we'd go build like a flash website and half the times you'd… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Abhinav Asthana Like you go into a website and all the technology was built on flash.
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
- ▶ 3:26 Cameron Adams It was built in Adobe Flash, if anyone remembers what that was.
How Mercury Hit $500M ARR—then raised $300M from Sequoia at $3.5B. | Immad Akhund, CEO & Founder ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:59 Immad Akhund Our first idea, this is, like, end of 2008 was a flash 5 times in the scene
He launched a “side-project”— now it’s used by 10% of all restaurants. | Jordan Boesch, Founder o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:44 Jordan Boesch And even if they were really crappy at the start, like I was using flash and anyway, flash is not a thing anymore, but 2 times in the scene
From mushroom-picking in Belarus to $200M/year. How he built Flo Health into a $1B health app. | ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:08:52 Dimitri Gurski What's the bifurcation point because, and the story is about like my, uh, book, uh, about action script, like, uh, it's a program language of Macromedia flash.
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 12:11 Martin Casado Like, I mean, you had, you know, flash, which is pretty good. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Matt Biilmann But it also ties into sort of the, the part you talked about with Flash, because one of the things that was very rigid about Flash and that felt totally out of line with the web as a platform was that it was like this closed off. 5 times in the scene
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:15 David Rosenthal Flash games.
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:34 Dmitry Gurski It's a program language of, uh, Mercamedia Flash. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:43 Ben Gilbert Think JavaScript, CSS, eventually, you know, Java and Flash.
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42 Cameron Adams So they were running this thing in Adobe Flash. 2 times in the scene
Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
- ▶ 2:21 Dan Porter So, uh, OMG Pop was a gaming website built entirely in Flash.
Inside Apple’s failed car program
- ▶ 18:23 Mark Gurman Uh, he was publicly poked fun at by Apple over Flash. 3 times in the scene
This Founder Sold His Startup, Bought it Back for Pennies, and Resold it on Acquire.com for 5 Figures
- ▶ 13:25 Andrew Gazdecki Then Adobe flash came out and YouTube capitalized on that.
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
- ▶ 12:33 Steve Ruiz Flash, and before then, you know, Adobe Illustrator, and before then, all the way back.
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 32:34 Benedict Evans It will be Flash and Java.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
- ▶ 6:05 Andrew Gazdecki There was a ton of different companies that tried to make YouTube work, but it wasn't until Adobe Flash came out. 2 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with JK Molina, Co-founder of Tweet Hunter
- ▶ 10:46 Andrew Gazdecki Like there's a ton of like YouTube alternatives that didn't work out until Adobe flash came out, made videos smaller that made YouTube work.
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 12:06 Jason Citron This was like back when like flash was new and like webcams were kind of new.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:29 Dalton Caldwell So one of the cool innovations that YouTube, the startup YouTube had before it was acquired by Google was to play video in flash in the browser that required no external dependencies or just play right in the browser. 2 times in the scene
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:44 Brendan Eich Java failed and Flash eventually failed.
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 33:47 Benedict Evans There was also incidentally another of these sort of John the Baptist things that there was a whole world of, of, of web-based casual games on flash. 2 times in the scene
Nazara Technologies founder on IPO and future of the Company @NazaraGames
- ▶ 2:55 Nitish Mittersain So flash games at that point of time. 4 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 4:05 Ethan Diamond Um, this was also in the days of flash. 2 times in the scene
The Eight-Figure Exit Secret: Put $1 In, Get $15 Back
- ▶ 6:22 Eric Varden And, you know, at the time flash was still a big thing.
UBIweb Makes $1.7m/year Helping Plumbers Launch Websites
- ▶ 21:17 Dan DiLoreto People that have websites still in Flash, they don't have websites.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 7:15 Stewart Butterfield On, um, Flash as a technology for delivering the game, which wasn't going to work on mobiles, and, uh, I think in the end that, that really was the nail in the coffin.
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 34:44 Gabriel Weinberg There have been some exploits in, in the Tor browser, like using Flash.
1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
- ▶ 5:14 Paymon Taei Um, but, uh, we started developing this thing back in 2000, uh, 12 or so as just a side project at hindsight, hindsight, just a digital agency used to do a lot of flash work. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 22:45 Chris Dixon To me, the interesting thing there is, if you look at the video game business, so, you know, 10 years ago, it was basically console games you sell for 50 bucks, or like Flash-based games with banner ads.
1079 How He's Pivoted 3 Times Since 1996, Moving to Cloud Based SaaS w/ $10m in ARR
- ▶ 7:48 Nathan Latka Now the other end of that is these luxury guys create these really complicated flash sites, which don't actually work anywhere.
906 SaaS: Interactive Video Company Passes $1.2m ARR After Unique Way of Handling Churn
- ▶ 3:38 Nathan Latka Is it flash or like what allows you to do this kind of embedded in interaction inside of a video file?
896 How Fuse Plans to Introduce Paid Product to Free Community Built Over 5+ Years
- ▶ 3:19 Anders Lassen Was it flash?
There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:25 Kevin Slavin Like, like, like it was like, it was like the very end of, um, of like flash based casual games, right?
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:21 Craig Cannon In flash. 4 times in the scene
Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:38 Craig Cannon And are you, do you use Flash videos on the phone as well? 4 times in the scene
How to Sell For $100m+
- ▶ 6:10 Hampus Jakobsson And what I actually, the interesting thing is like, we were so, the whole, and what then happened is like, we flew to Canada, met them, and they told us like, ah, they were actually kind of a play too, because we met the complete… 3 times in the scene