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Trenda: The driver of Twitter's success is what makes it awful
“And it led me to the conclusion that the thing that makes Twitter successful is the very thing that makes it awful.”
Trenda: Good Talk is shutting down as a consumer platform
“We have decided to take a very different direction and we're actually shutting down Good Talk as a consumer destination.”
Hyatt: Scaling a consumer social startup costs an order of magnitude more today
“The cost to scale this kind of company, I think, has gone up an order of magnitude than what it used to.”
Hudson: Conversation platforms fail from esoteric content or difficult monetization
“Every time I've gotten excited about a platform that's fundamentally about conversations, whether it was Whale, AMA on Reddit, Quora, it breaks somehow. Either the conversations become so long-tailed and esoteric that they can't build an audience, or the monet…”
Trenda: Good Talk is first since Instagram or Snap with celebrity PMF
“So we're the first company since Instagram or Snap to create product market fit with that segment of users.”
Trenda: 90% of Good Talk users eventually download the mobile app
“We're an SMS first product, although 90% of the users do eventually download the app, but we just believe you have to show them the value before you get them to download an app.”
Trenda: Major platforms cannot solve toxicity due to open participation model
“This is antithetical to those platforms. On those platforms, and you even hear these CEOs when they talk about, like, Jack Dorsey talks about the power of Twitter, it's that every user can participate in every conversation. And so you can't solve a problem tha…”
Trenda: Good Talk SMS notifications achieve a 51% open rate
“The next time Brad Feld goes live, you're going to get a text, and you're going to open that at a rate of 51%.”