Gas

“Gas, which is currently at three dollars and 50 cents, three dollars and 60 cents, going out to 26, 27, in 28, the curve is flat. 20, 29, 20 30, the curve is flat because people believe the gas is abundant.”

“China imports 74% of its oil supply and 42% of its gas supply.”

“If you look back to 1800, even biomass today is used more than it was in the 1800. Oil is used more. Gas, coal, everything is used more. And solar and wind were simply additive.”

“Yes, actually. We launched at the exact same school that we launched TBH on the exact same day, five years later.”

“So we actually had to reinvent all the growth systems, and it took about, I think, like nine launches, including renaming the app, including Like features that just never existed on a TV.”

“But with gas, I think we received a message every single day about from a user telling us that they reconsidered suicide or other forms of self-harm.”

“We actually built a system to ensure everyone got a vote. And we, what we did was we put your name in polls at a higher frequency to if you weren't being voted on recently.”

“We met with journalists, reporters to make sure that the number one match, every time you search gas app, human trafficking was gas app is not for human trafficking. And so that ended up being the Washington post headline. We insisted that that be the headline…”

“And at the peak, we had three percent of users deleting their accounts per day. So it was like really catastrophic, like it was a catastrophe for an app. And we got it down to .1% through relentless, relentless effort.”

“The key thing that you have to know, though, when you have a hoax spreading about your app is you really have to make sure the hoax is less viral than your app.”

“And so we ended up being, you know all, all just pure cashflow for the team. No, we had no investors.”

“We ended up getting yeah, three, three companies that wanted to buy it. Won't be able to sell them, but ultimately we ended up selling to discord.”

“When you invite someone to an app, regardless of the app, you generally met boys invite boys, girls invite girls to apps and boys didn't want to invite their friends to an app called crush a pink with a pink icon.”

“The app indexed about six, 60 to 65% women. So we were just like, let's make the app more masculine and see what happens. We need balance on this. So we made the icon black with a flame, called it gas, and the invites rate jumped.”

“So that's going to have to change or go much faster. We're just not going to meet that load growth.”

“We estimate cheaper gas Meant that 12,500 people did not die from coal every year in the US.”

“I think in basically, like, a six-month span, it made, like, seven or eight million dollars in, you know, gross revenue with, like, you know and, you know, it was very profitable for him in that period of time, then he sold the thing”

“But in New England, because of interconnection constraints and lots of nimbyism, gas has pretty much filled in the gap, not utility-scale wind and solar.”

“If you looked last summer in the United States, in every power market where you have hydro and you've, you pulled up the dispatch curve, the daily dispatch curve of assets in a particular ISO, what you'd see is if you have hydro and you have gas, Hydro and gas…”

“One of his last tweets about the app before the acquisition said they had had like, ten million downloads and six million in revenue, which is just amazing.”

“So the way that we've designed Gas Gas is similar to a lot of anonymous apps that exist in the App Store today, but many of those have been plagued by bullying, and we use a novel mechanic where you answer polls about your friends that we write, and we make al…”

“I last saw Nikita say that they're getting 30,000 downloads of the app an hour”

“I wouldn't now tell anyone listening to ever try that. Like if that happens, if you're Nikita and in nine months, they buy you for a hundred million. God bless. Like that's amazing. I don't think that's the norm.”

“What I'll also say is I bet they are printing money right now because they haven't raised any money. I looked on LinkedIn. There's three co-founders, and then two or three other people working on this, but all part-time, and I think a very high percentage of p…”

“So in the context of gas, by them going high school by high school, the high schools are the hubs and the high school students are the spokes. And the amazing part about this model for a social network is there are network effects built in. So for something li…”

“They're going to get worse. We could have seven dollar gas. Broadly, broadly, we could have seven dollar gas all throughout the country.”