Bryan Kim
person on 3 shows · 8 statements across 3 episodes · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2025
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Kim: AI-to-AI interactions will broker net new human relationships and conversations
“What happens when I'm okay with my AI coming to your AI, my guy talking to your guy, and say, look, have you checked in on him? Do you want to talk about ABC? I think those would be an opener for net new relationship, net new conversations that we wouldn't hav…”
Bryan Kim: An AI-native social graph has not yet been built
“What I think is missing potentially is connection. Like this social graph, this thing hasn't rebuilt on AI yet, and That may be just a white space or something that we just continue to see what develops there.”
Bryan Kim: ChatGPT knows more personal context about him than Google
“I pour my heart and soul into ChatGPT. It knows more about me than probably Google, potentially. Which is an insane thing to say. Like Google, I've been using, using Google for a decade plus, and ChatGPT may know more about me than Google, because I type more,…”
Bryan Kim: Gen Z averages just over one close friend
“There is a very clear trend of average Number of friends that you can talk to over time going down. I think the youngest generation is something above one.”
Targeted Growth Mechanics Can Boost Day-30 Retention by 10-15%
“My estimate is that on average, if you employ some of these combination of these methodologies, you're able to move up your, what I would start with D-thirty. I think you can move that up 10 to 15%. Whoa. Which is, which goes from okay on my list of like 20% D…”
Neglecting User Retention Leads to a 'Burned Forest' Acquisition Crisis
“Retention is the, you know, bread and butter of key consumer products, because if you don't get users coming back and again and again, ultimately, you have what I call this, like, burned forest, Problem where you went and cut all the trees off, and there's no …”
Consumer Products Rarely Recover From Low Day-Zero Retention
“If the new user comes on on day zero and didn't find a product value that they're looking for, They're not gonna stay, and you just, like, lost that user, and it's very, very unlikely that you recover from a low D zero, D one retention. It's very difficult to …”
Feature-Gated Onboarding Increases Long-Term Retention Among Activated Users
“And I think what we are seeing is that if you actually gate the usage of the product, behind something that users need to do to unlock. I think that actually ends up leading to higher retention. You're exchanging lower conversion to actual product initiation, …”