Polyvore
company on 3 shows · 5 statements across 2 episodes · said 38 times in 4 episodes since 2015
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Platforms can add performance marketing engines without diluting community magic
“You can preserve the magic of the community while also building a performance marketing engine and those two can coexist, and you don't have to Dilute the former to get the latter”
Polyvore ran its performance marketing engine on Google Spreadsheets for a year
“We started with a spreadsheet. So we ran our entire performance marketing engine off of a Google spreadsheet for not, this is not like two weeks just to get it live. We did, I think it was a full year that we ran it on a spreadsheet”
Polyvore outpaced Pinterest and Twitter in social commerce traffic
“We have about twenty million visitors per month. Ah, we're the second largest driver of social commerce traffic on the web. Ah, so first is, ah, Facebook, then Polyvore, then Pinterest, and then Twitter.”
Jess Lee: Polyvore made its community manager the sixth hire
“I think our community manager was the sixth hire at Polyvore, so that's actually fairly early on, but we wanted someone dedicated to this.”
Beta testers defending new features is better than corporate defense
“And then those people who were in the beta test, Sometimes they come out of the woodwork and be, and comment back for you on your behalf and say, hey, I thought it sucked at first too, but then I played for, played with it for a week and now I love it. And tha…”