Messenger
product on 21 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 148 times in 72 episodes since 2015
Top Founders 39 
the a16z Podcast 38 
20VC 14 
Mixergy 10 
Lenny's Podcast 7 
Big Technology 7 
the MAD Podcast 5 
My First Million 4 
TBPN 4 
the Knowledge Project 3 
All-In 3 
A Product Market Fit Show 3 
We Live to Build 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Founder's Journal 1 
Another Podcast 1 
the Neon Show 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Sourcery 1 
Acquired 1
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Top Founders 39the a16z Podcast 3820VC 14Mixergy 10Lenny's Podcast 7Big Technology 7the MAD Podcast 5My First Million 413 more shows
2026 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
- What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
- Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN
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2025 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- 5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Fo... · PMF Show
- 20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
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2024 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
- How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- "Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 22-Year-Old who built Multiple Viral Products
- Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- Is This The End Of The Pod?
- Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
- How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
- Second Job of a Startup CEO
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2023 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model
- Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- Ryan Wiggins: Scaling WhatsApp from 0-100M; How to Build a Growth Team; Mercury Neobank | E1016 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
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2022 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
- How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
- 20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @
- POS System Does $15m GMV, Biz Makes 1%, $1m+ Run Rate Serving 150 Customers
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2021 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
- #118 Doug Conant: Leadership With Integrity
- From Bootstrap to IPO ft. Rajdip Gupta, Founder, Route Mobile
- Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196
- The Mental Health Pandemic Nobody Is Talking About Yet
- The 3 Things She Gives Her Team That Nobody Ever Gave Her
- Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
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2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 39 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- 1592 Why This $12m ARR Company Had To Pivot Away From Just Live Chat, Rely on $100k+ ACV American Customers
- 1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"
- 1454 How This Intercom, Drift Competitor Is Winning in India
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2018 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
- 991 He's Built 400+ Chatbots Making $800k in The Process
- Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- 1092 Why Chef Creator Raised $30m to Replace Walkie Talkies
- Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 988 Livechat on Website Wars
- 970 28 Year Old Turns Down $12m Acquisition Offer, Doing $65k in MRR in CoBrowsing, Live Chat Space
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2017 27 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- 699: The Fired ConvertKit Co-Founder You've Never Heard Of, Father Made Me Feel "Not Worth Enough"
- #1453 The future of chat (and interacting with your customers)
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- #1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses
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2016 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- From 0 to 1 Billion Impressions With Imoji Founders Daniel and Jason EP 204:
- Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- EP 384: $105k on 1 Facebook Live, The New Webinar with Carissa Hill Ep 384
- How To Get Your First 100 Customers with Matthew Bernman EP 201
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2015 1 mention in 1 episode
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6 statements about Messenger, every show
Duboe: Facebook's growth team directly managed the early standalone Messenger app
“I know that one of the things they actually put the growth team on was when they spun out Messenger from the core app. It was the growth team that actually ran the product on that early on.”
Scapic Saw Unexpectedly Heavy 3D Content Creation for Social Media
“The one thing that we didn't quite anticipate is the amount that the tool would be used specifically for ensuring that content pieces in social media networks, particularly across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, are going to be ones that are three D based, thr…”
Russell: Facebook was a poor steward of Messenger's early developer platform
“My kind of read on this has been that Facebook hasn't been, let's say, the best steward of Messenger as a platform, for instance, for the first six to nine months of it, other than the kind of Bots that Facebook itself specifically highlighted and linked to in…”
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?”
Gamito: Email marketing tactics fail when applied to Messenger
“I think a lot of people are jumping into messenger from email marketing and they think that the things that are going to work in email are going to work in messenger. And that's just not the case. Messenger is a conversational tool. Email is something that you…”