Houseparty
product on 6 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 39 times in 12 episodes since 2017
20VC 22 
My First Million 6 
Top Founders 4 
Big Technology 4 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 20 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- 20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional
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2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture
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5 statements about Houseparty, every show
Lazimi: Houseparty died because major messaging platforms easily copied its core feature
“So at some point, Houseparty was just a feature that those other big platforms could implement. And this is what happened. And this is what killed Houseparty at this time.”
Puri: Group Video Apps Boom With Carless Teens But Suffer College Churn
“There's a sweet spot in age where they have friends, but they don't have a car. And so they come home and they're like trapped. So they just want to group. They'll just like go home, go to the room and they'll just call their friend for like six hours straight…”
Perry: D-ID co-founders developed iOS and Android for Meerkat/Houseparty
“The CTO and myself before the ID, we worked at the Meerkat, which later became house party. So we developed the iOS and Android for Meerkat and house party.”
Synchronous social apps depend on concurrent graph availability
“In a presence product like House Party, the availability of the graph is really key for the successful of the use case. If people are busy when you're available, you can't match with them, you can't talk to them.”
Ben Rubin failed to bridge early and late-stage cultures at Houseparty
“Bridging between those two cultures of the people you hire as you're iterating and pivoting a lot and to the people you hired after you started the immense growth, it's hard culture to bridge. And I don't think I've done a good job there”