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20VC Disclosure
Gurski: Flo Health did not use paid user acquisition until 2020
“Up to the very recent times we didn't spend money for paid user acquisition. It was organic growth, and it was organic growth because users liked our products, and the metrics of our product were so good that App Store and Google Play were promoting it. But we…”
Dmitry Gurski Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 23:07 Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Google Play app store fees range from 12% to 15%
“Google's app store costs, by the way, are not Apple's and they're not 30%. And we talked about this last time. I'll pull it up for you again. It's like 15 to 12 going down. It's a sliding scale.”
David Friedberg Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 12:50 E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Google paid Activision $360M to stay in the Play Store
“Google paid Activision three hundred sixty million dollars to keep in the Play Store.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 10:47 E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
a16z Insight
Kim: Mobile app store distribution has ossified around incumbents
“More and more, even recently, people are downloading less and less apps over time. Part one. Part two is It's harder and harder to get discovered in the app store. You know, app store ranking is is, is hard to sort of get discovery now. So now you have this is…”
Bryan Kim Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 17:42 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
BlockerX Reached Up to 10 Million Installs on Android
“So it's somewhere between one and ten million installs on Android, which again, That's no fucking joke. I should invest in this. This is a good idea.”
Shaan Puri Jul 31, 2021 ▶ 44:13 How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
Y COMBINATOR Disclosure
Saroya: Cover acquires customers exclusively through mobile app stores
“We acquire exclusively through our apps. So the app store, Google play.”
Karn Saroya Feb 27, 2019 ▶ 17:34 Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
MAD Assertion Supported
Google Spanner handles petabytes of data and tens of millions of QPS
“The mission critical database for Google, it supports hundreds of Google applications, including Google AdWords and Google Play, and we manage, you know, petabytes of data and have tens of millions of QPS every day.”
Daniel Chia Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 1:39 Dynamic Range Sharding with Spanner // Daniel Chia, Google Spanner (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Supported
Cafe Bazaar maintained market dominance in Iran over Google Play
“By the time that the Google play service was opened up in the country, although there was, there hasn't been a lot of advertising around it, which I don't think Google needs, but cafe buzzer has already created some domination in the market. So they are still …”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:13 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
a16z Opinion
Evans: Google Maps and Play Store are Google's only crucial Android services
“Very briefly, it seems like the Maps and the App Store are crucial. None of the other services matter very much.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:08 a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
a16z Assertion Supported
Google has never disclosed revenue data for Google Play
“They haven't given any statistics at all on Android in nine months and they haven't, they've never given any data on Google Play. I mean, they've given app downloads, but they've never given revenue data”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:35 a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
a16z Assertion Supported
Evans: Google Play paid $5B to developers over 12 months
“All that they paid out five billion dollars to developers in the last 12 months and two billion in the previous 12 months.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:18 a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
a16z Assertion Supported
Evans: 93% of Google Play Devices Run Latest Play Services
“Google Play Services ships a new version every six weeks. 93% of the devices that are hitting Google Play are on the latest version.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:04 a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
a16z Assertion Supported
Chan: Google Play drives under 10% of Chinese Android app downloads
“Google Play, I believe is less than 10% of Android app downloads.”
Connie Chan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:54 a16z Podcast | China and Tech
a16z Assertion Supported
Google Arts & Culture Surpassed Messenger and YouTube in Downloads
“And this was so successful that ultimately the app became the most downloaded free app on both the app store iOS and also Google play for Android. And it was actually bigger than both messenger and YouTube, right?”
Andrew Chen Dec 8, 2018 ▶ 7:27 What's Next in Consumer Startups?
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Schwartz: Google Play ranks apps based on all visible text fields
“So on Google, the way they rank an app is based on all the visible text. So it's the name of the app, which is sort of like the title. The short description, which is forget how many characters, but a shorter page description of the app, which you see right ab…”
Eli Schwartz Sep 27, 2018 ▶ 10:02 SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
Saigal: 80-90% of app store apps can be built on Thunkable
“80 to 90% of those apps are pretty simple and should be able to be built on Funkable.”
Arun Saigal Oct 25, 2017 ▶ 10:54 823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sholom: Game developers will direct user acquisition to GameCredits over Google Play
“Somewhere in Google Play, all he's trying to do the same, but trying to lead his user to game credit store, then he will simply measure trying to compare the difference in return on investment, and when we will prove him that more revenue happens in our store,…”
Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 9:26 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

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