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Best: Kik Messenger was used by 40% of US teenagers
“I mean, at one point, there was, I think, 40% of U.S. Teenagers were using Keck for a few years.”
Best: Losing half a cross-platform messaging network destroys 95% of users
“And if you're a messaging app, and your big drive is your half on Blackberry and half on iPhone, if you lose half your users, you don't actually lose half your users, you lose like, 95% of your users.”
Best: Kik launched a cryptocurrency to solve free messenger monetization
“In part to raise money, and in part kind of like as a, in answer to the question, what do you do if you have a very popular messenger that lots of people use, but you don't know how to make money from it?”
McKenzie: Tesla had a messy, cut-throat, throw-under-the-bus culture
“It's totally different from Tesla, which was messy and cut-throat and had to, like, throw everyone under the bus kind of culture.”
Flynn: Conversational bot hype serves platform defensibility over user value
“I think this one is probably more hype than reality, at least at this stage. It makes a ton of sense why the big messaging platforms, Facebook, Kik, and others would want to, you know, turn their ecosystem into a development platform, right? I totally get why …”