Burbn
product on 9 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes · said 38 times in 11 episodes since 2016
How I Built This 25 
Top Founders 3 
20VC 3 
BigDeal 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
Acquired 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
My First Million 1 
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Caldwell: Instagram was a free knockoff of Hipstamatic combined with a social graph
“And so they basically built a pretty legitimate knockoff of the Hipstamatic filters, combining it with a social graph and they launched it and it pretty quickly took off. So of course this is Instagram.”
Hoffman: Systrom would not have raised funding if Burbn kept gaming
“If Kevin had persisted in trying to build gaming features for Bourbon, he probably wouldn't have found a backer, but he had kept it simple, and he got some attention.”
Systrom: Investor Steve Anderson required a co-founder before investing in Burbn
“But he actually said one thing to me, he goes, before I do this, you have to find a co-founder that's willing to do this with you.”
Krieger: Burbn's check-ins failed, but the visual status feature sparked Instagram
“And bourbon the check-in in itself I didn't find as compelling, but having a sort of visual status was really compelling.”
Systrom: Burbn had only 100 users before pivoting to Instagram
“We, I mentioned we got to about a hundred users using this app.”