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7 statements about Desktop, every show

Evan Spiegel: Traditional computing isolated humans into indoor single-player experiences
“Computers, I think, you know, Whether it was the mainframe or the desktop, you know, have sort of pulled us away from one another, away from society, brought us indoors right into this very like single player experience.”
Evan Spiegel Apr 12, 2026 ▶ 3:50 Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
IN DEPTH Insight
Canva CPO: Today's products must launch mobile-first, not desktop-first
“And in today's world, you have to be mobile first. So, you know, if we're making the product today, it would definitely be a mobile first product with probably desktop as the secondary”
Cameron Adams Aug 20, 2025 ▶ 47:58 How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
20VC Opinion
Rouif: Mobile Software Market Is Ten Times Larger Than Desktop
“Mobile software is 10 X bigger than anything you'll do on desktop.”
Matthieu Rouif Oct 23, 2023 ▶ 0:00 Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Diana Hu: Mixed Reality Is the Next Platform Shift After Mobile
“I really do think it's the next technology evolution. So we went from desktop, mobile, and next one in terms of representing information in a very rich way. It's going to be the space of Mixed reality with AR, VR, and beyond.”
Diana Hu Aug 28, 2019 ▶ 1:27 Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market · Y Combinator
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Butterfield: 99% of Slack DAUs use desktop, 65% mobile
“99% of our daily active users will log into Slack at least once on that day that they're active on the desktop, but only about 65% will do the same thing on mobile.”
Stuart Butterfield Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:45 a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Facebook is just one of many social networks on mobile
“This is why Facebook has gone from being the only social network on desktop to being only one of many social networks on mobile”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:15 a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
a16z Opinion
Stephen Sinofsky: Laptops are no longer portable and have essentially become desktops
“The laptops that people have, they're just not getting carried around at all anymore. And so in a sense, laptops have become desktops.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:34 a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?

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