Monthly Active Users

topic on 8 shows · 17 statements across 16 episodes

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16 statements about Monthly Active Users, every show

TBPN Assertion Supported
Dixon: Active on-chain app users range between 40M and 70M
“That we put between 40 and seventy million. There's a bar there because it's, we have to get rid of bots and other things, but It's definitely been growing. And that's like monthly active users of apps.”
Chris Dixon Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 4:06 a16z Crypto Managing Partner Chris Dixon Live on TBPN
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: Bolt reached 3M registered users and 1M MAUs within months
“Like we've added, you know, three million registered users, you know, just in the past few months here. And you know, monthly active users is, you know, around a million, I think at this point per month.”
Eric Simons Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 6:44 Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gurski: Over half of Flo's active users retain for over a year
“Like now we have like more than half of our mall now, like users who have used for more than one year.”
Dmitri Gurski Mar 10, 2025 ▶ 14:57 From mushroom-picking in Belarus to $200M/year. How he built Flo Health into a $1B health app. | ... · PMF Show
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Facebook's Ratio of Daily to Monthly Users Reached Nearly 70 Percent
“50% of monthly actives were daily actives in oh eight. Since then, they have basically improved that metric every year. There's been a little bit of variance, but it is now almost 70% today.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 28, 2024 ▶ 3:11:20 Meta (Audio) · Acquired
Crusson: Phased user tiers protected Jira Product Discovery from premature MAU targets
“That helped us because we could then claim the space to do the right thing, and we were not asked to hit, for example, a monthly active users number, or number of customers number, or percentage of users who use this number, because it's very qualitative still…”
Tanguy Crusson Jun 16, 2024 ▶ 1:25:52 Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Narayanan: Facebook chose MAU as North Star to match its mission
“For example, at Facebook at that time that we were there, it was like making the world open and connected. So naturally was you wanted to get everyone in the world on it. So it just naturally meant that you wanted to get the largest number of people to use a p…”
Chandra Narayanan Mar 13, 2024 ▶ 22:06 Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tavel: MAU is meaningless without tracking users completing core actions
“But at the end of the day, if you're not doing that action, you're not really a user to the product. And that's why it's, you know, the MAU thing doesn't really mean anything It's really looking at, I think, of users completing the core action.”
Sarah Tavel Dec 27, 2023 ▶ 6:53 The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Partly supported
Von Ahn: Duolingo has 40M MAUs and a 3% paid conversion rate
“Active users right now, we have about forty million monthly active users, and about three percent of them are paying subscribers.”
Luis von Ahn Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 59:44 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Stancil: Daily software needs a 50% DAU/MAU ratio for PMF
“One, if you are a product that needs to be used every day, something like what front is makes sense. Things like DAUs over MAUs, which effectively measures how many days in a month people are using your product. It's really important. A high number there matte…”
Benn Stancil May 10, 2023 ▶ 16:47 Using data to find product-market fit
20VC Assertion Supported
Ed Baker: Facebook's North Star metric was monthly active users
“Well, so at Facebook, when I was there, the North Star metric was monthly active users.”
Ed Baker Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 9:50 20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
20VC Assertion Supported
Winters: Pinterest grew from 40M to 150M MAUs during his tenure
“Stayed there from about forty million monthly actives to a hundred and fifty million monthly actives.”
Casey Winters Sep 22, 2021 ▶ 5:37 Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Von Ahn: Duolingo has 40M MAUs with a 3% paid conversion rate
“Yeah, I mean, active users right now, we have about Forty million monthly active users, and about three percent of them are paying subscribers.”
Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 ▶ 54:15 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
Adora Cheung: Monthly active users is a poor early-stage startup metric
“A lot of people pick MAU, monthly active user but this is, but this is usually not a great metric because it takes time to understand the impact of movement especially in a startup this early as in your startup. And so many things can happen within a month. An…”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 5:03 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Doshi: Monthly active users has become a deceptive vanity metric
“I now think that monthly active users has become, like, the new BS metric that's, like, very similar to, like, just, like, number of registered users.”
Suhail Doshi Sep 12, 2018 ▶ 26:46 Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
Thomas: Monthly active app users average 15 to 20 events monthly
“Typically a monthly active user does, you know, 15 to 20 things 15 to 20 events a month in your app.”
Sunil Thomas Jul 30, 2017 ▶ 8:16 736: How Mobile Analytics Company Went $0 to $4 Million in 12 Months
20VC Insight
Chou: Standard consumer metrics like DAU and MAU fail in gaming
“Looking at day one, day seven, day 30, day 90, day one 80, day 365, none of these metrics. Really tell the right, you know, story, nor does looking at DAU, and certainly not MAU. So some of these kind of common metrics that other kind of consumer services use …”
Kevin Chou Mar 17, 2017 ▶ 12:58 20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam

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