Periscope
product on 12 shows · 10 statements across 5 episodes · said 89 times in 35 episodes since 2015
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10 statements about Periscope, every show
Beykpour: Generalized live-only consumer video apps cannot be durable standalone products
“I still am very skeptical that there can be a consumer product that is just focused on live video, like a generalized synchronous live video application for short form video. I don't think can be durable on its own.”
Beykpour: Twitter spotted consumer trends early but repeatedly botched execution
“There's a pattern where Twitter is really great at spotting meaningful consumer behavior changes, right? Like they spotted Vine and acquired Vine, botched it, spotted Periscope, botched it. Just spotted Instagram, by the way, before, you know, Facebook tried t…”
Beykpour: Most Periscope Users Wanted Conversation, Not Teleportation
“It turns out the vast majority of our users were not using Periscope that way. They were not, it wasn't a rear facing camera experience where you were showing someone the world. The vast majority of people were using it to just talk to other people.”
Scott Belsky wrote a substantial early seed check for Periscope
“Scott was like, I mean, I want to support you guys. He wrote us, I don't want to share how much the check was, but he wrote us a substantially sized check and was like, I want to be on the team and help you guys make this come to life.”
Beykpour: Periscope reduced live stream latency to sub-five seconds
“Technically what that meant is we had to take what was sort of industry standard as like tens of seconds, if not more of latency and bring it down to like sub five seconds.”
Beykpour: Periscope's biggest mistake was defaulting broadcast retention to persist indefinitely
“I think one of the biggest mistakes we made with Periscope Is we changed the default Sort of data retention to persist indefinitely.”
Hartman: The competition between Meerkat and Periscope is not over yet
“I don't think it's over yet.”
Models trained on stock images fail to generalize to real-world video
“Classifiers that are and models that are trained in tune on this particular, on iconic type of data don't really generalize as well when you apply it to something that you might see in a real-world video like on YouTube or on Periscope.”
Dextro created a real-time aggregator for all live public Periscope streams
“Tomorrow we're just ironing out that one issue, but you guys should all check out stream.dextro.co, which aggregates every live public Periscope stream, and you can kind of browse based on what you think is most interesting at any given moment to discover, lik…”
Lipman: Periscope holds a significant growth advantage over Meerkat
“I think Periscope, they have a advantage in regards to growth with, you know, being able to piggyback off of Twitter and using, having such a strong relationship with them, and now actually being acquired by them, but I think that they both can win, but at thi…”