Bitly

“We used a lot of our proprietary data to build the QR code index, and in less than a month, we saw over 60,000 downloads, and this just launched this summer.”

“Bitly was interesting because it was a venture-funded company that kind of blew through a lot of the venture capital needed to become a sustainable, scalable business, and I hopped over from Betaworks to Bitly, and I saw a lot of that, not necessarily post-acq…”

“Around 12% of the links we saw on a daily basis were primarily media objects, and we had no insight into them.”

“So it's basically free traffic. So whenever you tweet or post any, a link to anybody else's content online, you can, instead of using a bit.ly link shortener, you can use the Snipply link shortener. And what it will actually do is place an ad for a piece of co…”

“Matt is Director of Seed Investments at Betaworks, who have invested in the likes of Tumblr, Airbnb, Groupon, and Twitter, and have internally built startups such as Chartbeat, Bitly, and Socialflow.”

“At Bitly we got some of our best questions through our tech support and our community team.”

“Tens of millions of unique URLs per day, hundreds of millions of clicks on those URLs from every imaginable social network.”

“We found that for Twitter, it's short, it's 2.8 hours. For Facebook, it's a little longer, about 3.1 hours.”

“Three percent of all clicks in 2011 went to pages about the top hundred celebrities.”

“People who look at adult content only look at adult content. People who look at religion only look at religion, and people who look at chemistry really only look at chemistry.”

“Nobody who reads the New York Times reads Fox News.”

“A lot of our stuff is homegrown, unfortunately. A lot of it's written in C. The rest is in Python. We use Redis quite a lot as a data store.”