NationBuilder

company on 3 shows · 8 statements across 4 episodes · said 49 times in 19 episodes since 2019

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Evans: A software company's moat is go-to-market, not writing code
“I don't feel like the reason it's hard to compete with X or Y or Z company is how long it would take you to write the code to replicate the product. It's almost never the problem. It's the problem. The hard part is everything else. It's working out what the pr…”
Benedict Evans Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 12:59 What jobs are AI jobs?
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Cowan-Brown: Apple privacy changes will disrupt political campaign email operations
“That's where my head always goes when I talk about newsletters and emails, and it's just when politics, you know, what is it going to look like when politicians, when I used to work at Nationworld, that was the big thing of, we need to know how many a percent …”
Toni Cowan-Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 34:26 The Business of publishing
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Cowan-Brown: There is no global definition of hate speech
“I mean, when I used to work at nation builder, we had also such a hard time of defining. And again, it's a little bit different there because it's not a platform that amplifies I'll come back to that in a second, but it's not a platform. You don't go there to …”
Toni Cowan-Brown Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 7:56 Is content moderation a dead end?
Cowan-Brown: NationBuilder failed to profit from European political campaigns
“When I was building out NationBuilder in, in Europe. We didn't make any money from campaigns. Presidential campaigns come and go. So you have a great amount of revenue. You've got great RR for a couple of, you know MRR, sorry, not AR. Good monthly revenue for,…”
Toni Cowan-Brown Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 21:40 Is content moderation a dead end?
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Horowitz: NationBuilder software powered 40% of 2016 national campaigns
“NationBuilder, the platform that Jim's company builds, was the underlying software that 40% of the national campaigns in this election ran on, including four of the five presidential candidates, including President-elect Trump.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:28 a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Gilliam: All outsider 2016 presidential candidates used NationBuilder
“All of the outsider presidential candidates used NationBuilder.”
Jim Gilliam Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:46 a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement
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Gilliam: NationBuilder was first to make national voter files free
“We compiled the voter file nationally and started to provide it for free, offering software for 29 bucks a month to go run for office. First time anybody's ever done that. Provide it for free to anybody running for office, even if you don't use Nation Boulder.”
Jim Gilliam Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:17 a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement
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Gilliam: The world will shift from 250 nations to 250 million digital nations
“Part of the reason our company's called NationBuilder is the idea that there won't just be 250 nations in the world anymore. There'll be two hundred and fifty million of them.”
Jim Gilliam Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:04 a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement

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