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Why Naming Consumer Apps After Action Verbs Is a Smart Strategy
“Thinking about if you're doing an app, you're doing a consumer app, you know, consumer app, consumer software, like, picking the verb is a pretty smart way of naming an app.”
Lieb: Bump prematurely hired a product lead before reaching PMF
“I made this mistake myself at Bump. We got to like, maybe it was 30 employees. All of our vanity metric graphs were like going way up. We were feeling really good. And I thought our company is going to need to like figure out our business model. Eventually we'…”
Lieb: Bump pivoted to photo sharing before being acquired by Google
“We pivoted a few times with bump and ultimately decided to work on photo sharing and then got acquired by Google. And then I was there for nine years.”
Lieb: Bump sold to Google because it needed to raise capital
“We need, we were gonna need to raise some more money and we weren't sure that that was the right idea for ourselves or for the team or for investors. So usually when you sell a company, it's because you either really can and want to or you need to. For us, we …”
Lieb: Bump reached 150 million installs, on 20% of global smartphones
“In, in, in the Bump kind of heyday, we had a hundred and fifty million installs on, on phones when the market for phones was only like, I don't know, maybe a billion phones in the world, or probably less than that, probably hundreds of high hundreds of million…”
Lieb: 20% of Bump app opens were accidental taps meant for Facebook
“We thought we were like hot shit because everybody's using our app, but turns out like 20% of the time it was accident. They didn't mean to use it.”
Lieb: Prematurely hiring a product lead at Bump was a key mistake
“At bump, you know, we got to like, Maybe it was 30 employees, and we were, all of our vanity metric graphs were, like, going way up. We were feeling really good and I thought, oh, like, our company is gonna need to, like, figure out our business model eventual…”