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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Snapchat comes up on 20VC, Top Founders, the a16z Podcast, A Product Market Fit Show, TBPN
Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:02 Jordi Hays They didn't win by launching a Snapchat clone as a separate app.
Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- ▶ 57:38 David Senra Just, I don't, you like Snapchat specs, anything, whatever it is, it's just like, he is differentiated.
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 31:00 Jean-Denis Greze Much like Snapchat structurally in the market is defensible, even though it's not nearly as good a business as TikTok or as Facebook or Instagram, because it's fundamentally different.
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:25 John Coogan He says, I actually think Snapchat for work might be a good idea in today's big companies. 2 times in the scene
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:39 unnamed speaker Then Snapchat was even like the younger crowd. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 unnamed speaker So it's possible that it, it can, um, but again, if they can solve the always on digital assistant, it is a massive, massive opportunity, but I'm just saying they're pricing a lot of that in right now when this company is four months old…
How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
- ▶ 14:16 Campbell Brown You know, on Instagram, Snap, on podcasts, it's people like you.
Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:05:44 Ben Thompson They killed Snapchat or stopped Snapchat's growth by realizing Snapchat is a great product. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 55:26 Jason Calacanis Go ask MySpace, go ask Snapchat what it's like to have Zuckerberg in the review mirror.
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 9:13 Eric Vishria You had new companies forming that were like using the cloud, you know, I think kind of famously like Snapchat, uh, was built on GCP.
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 3:07:08 David Rosenthal Streaming service, and basically the only ones within reach are Twitter and Snapchat.
AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:01 Jordi Hays The district had sought more than sixty million, and I guess the total payout was twenty-seven million because it was split between YouTube and TikTok and Snap.
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:37 unnamed speaker And that seems like much more related to the main, like, you know, hatchet app that would have been glasses, right? 2 times in the scene
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 32:16 unnamed speaker Like, they've never had a full monopoly on social media, even, with TikTok and Snapchat and, uh, LinkedIn and Twitch and YouTube and Netflix and the podcast feed and SMS and iMessage.
S2Ep13: Stories to Systems: How Richa Chadha is Reimagining Cinema, Business & Impact
- ▶ 59:05 Richa Chadha You need focus and quiet and peace to be able to make anything, anything great that has been made in the world, whether it's a rocket or a laptop, has been made without being on Snapchat.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 37:34 Qasar Younis There was a huge, like, and then it, it comes and we, by, by oh seven from the iPhone launch, like it's like four years when you get Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
- ▶ 56:48 unnamed speaker So you were talking earlier about how, when, you know, um, the technology got, got so good in mobile that there was a wave of these companies, you know, Uber, WhatsApp, Snap, you know, Airbnb, et cetera, that emerged in quick succession.
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 26:11 Alex Kantrowitz Whether that is, you know, copying stories from Snapchat, copying reels from TikTok.
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:55 Harry Stebbings It seems like we're normalizing insane levels, a la Snapchat, that candidly make it very difficult for me as an investor
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:14 John Coogan Is it because the super apps are getting more super in the sense that you don't need, you used to need, you needed Snapchat for stories, you needed TikTok for vertical video, you needed YouTube for a long form.
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
- ▶ 1:11:40 Joey Shamah I think today, now it's how are you going to own the most amount of attention from the consumer on Instagram, Snapchat, and Meta.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:04 Harry Stebbings Why have we not had a big social company since Snap?
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:58 John Coogan But Meta's is, uh, 800 dollars, and Specs from Snap is 2200 dollars.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:26:11 Ranjan Roy We'll get into the snap spectacles. 5 times in the scene
Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Snapchat comes out with new spectacles, and we take your audience questions.
- ▶ 0:48 Alex Kantrowitz I promised myself when this summit was being planned that I would not be mean to Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:19 unnamed speaker So Snapchat showed off specs.
Mutli-Millionaire CEO: The Simple Steps to Self-Made Success | Everette Taylor
- ▶ 47:04 Everette Taylor So I'm just at Everett on Threads, but I'm at Everett everywhere on LinkedIn and Snap and
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 3:49 Spencer Pratt Look what you made me do on Snapchat.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:18 Cliff Weitzman Um, two, there is a portion of the population that uses Snapchat as their main form of communication. 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- ▶ 21:02 David Senra From Snapchat?
AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:21 unnamed speaker The Snapchat threat came and sort of went.
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 0:29 Evan Spiegel We're really excited about the, the progress in the core Snapchat business.
- ▶ 21:56 Evan Spiegel When we launched Snapchat, it had no 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:33 Evan Spiegel We just announced we had twenty-five million Snapchat plus subscribers, over a billion run rate on the direct revenue business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:28 Evan Spiegel Um, was that when we were starting Snapchat, you're right, the belief was that the bigger the network was, the more valuable it was, sort of, and, and, you know, folks had a whole model for that, for how they thought about it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:10 John Collison The other thing that from a product point of view, I really associate with Snapchat is obviously, uh, persistence or lack thereof, the ephemeral, uh, nature. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:21 Evan Spiegel Of course, he wants to unwind and watch something on Netflix or chat with his friends on Snapchat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:24 Evan Spiegel I think what's really interesting, you know, you mentioned sort of social media more broadly, and there are a lot of studies that look at social media broadly, right, and include Snapchat together with Instagram or TikTok or whatever. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:57 John Collison Distribution dynamics in, uh, this space, and the fact that you guys, now that you're, you know, soon passing a billion MAUs, there's a lot of advantages you have where you have, you can promote the Discover content, uh, in the existing… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:09 Evan Spiegel Like, there's almost no metrics in Snapchat.
- ▶ 57:42 Evan Spiegel Well, Norway was the first place that Snapchat got traction. 5 times in the scene
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 20:28 David Senra Snapchat is one I've heard because they're, the user behavior on Roblox is, yeah, I can play games with my friends, but it's actually like the use case I've seen is they'll come home from school, your younger users, and where they, like…
- ▶ 33:19 David Senra Uh, I just, I just recorded with, uh, Evan Spiegel, founder of Snapchat.
Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- ▶ 45:42 Ranjan Roy I feel like Snapchat, like they, that's the one thing that always, they never had.
Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:16 John Coogan And what's interesting is that it is not really this, the Sasspocalypse narrative, because even if you vibe code a Snapchat clone, you won't have the actual usage data, the network effect that exists, but the market has definitely turned…
How Billion-Dollar Businesses Actually Get Built
- ▶ 1:03:13 Mike Lazerow So don't worry that you don't have followers because all of the content, thanks to TikTok and like its influence on Instagram and Snapchat, all of the content gets shown to 200 people.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 4:32 Evan Spiegel Yeah, I mean, that's a lot of, like, what inspired how we thought about the evolution of Snapchat.
- ▶ 12:41 Evan Spiegel And so a lot of the early work we even did with Snapchat was asking about how we can be certain that everything is deleted, right, and how we can make sure that everything is being written over because that wasn't a consideration for a…
- ▶ 13:06 David Senra How old were you when you started Peekaboo, which turns into Snapchat? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:33 David Senra So is Peekaboo, which is obviously Snapchat, was that, was there anything in between those two, or was it? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 Evan Spiegel And a lot of, you know, in the first, you know, several years of Snapchat, almost all video online was like horizontal video in the feed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Evan Spiegel You know, it's, it's probably on, on like the, the Snapchat side, it's like roughly 10, 10 or so people.
- ▶ 32:35 Evan Spiegel I think the way that we build products at Snapchat is just fundamentally different than anywhere else in the, in the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:44 Evan Spiegel I think AI is like probably the best thing that's ever happened to, to Snapchat, which is great.
- ▶ 42:11 Evan Spiegel You know, Facebook at the time carbon copied Snapchat to make poke. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:32 David Senra They're in, you're talking about the filters you added or the lenses and stuff to Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:14 David Senra It's like, you would, like, airdrop these vending machines, and then I remember there's, like, a website, and I'm not a fucking power user of Snapchat.
- ▶ 1:04:54 Evan Spiegel What is the role, you know, Snap's core, SnapChat's core business is evolving. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:11 Evan Spiegel One of the new ones is our subscription business, uh, which is growing really, really rapidly, called Snapchat Plus. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:24 Evan Spiegel It's a huge opportunity and we have a ton of, you know, engagement on, on Snapchat. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:36 Evan Spiegel You know, I think unlike some of these other internet services, people are getting a ton of value from Snapchat, so much 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:30 Evan Spiegel The hardware business at its core is just so different than the internet service business that we operate with, with Snapchat, and, you know, even requires a different execution style, you know, with hardware, like, you cannot make a… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:17 Evan Spiegel The core Snapchat business is really well positioned to launch new app categories today, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:33 David Senra Yeah, obviously Snapchat's working, the app.
- ▶ 1:32:14 David Senra Your focus basically every day when you wake up is, like, you're attacking what you feel is, like, the biggest problem in Snapchat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:33 Evan Spiegel And so I think, like, you could imagine a world without Snapchat, without these inventions, like, I think the world would be like a, a worse place. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:51 Evan Spiegel I think for me, like, I see Snapchat as the best possible vehicle to reinvent the computer. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:28 David Senra Cause is that like, I don't want to diminish Snapchat, but it sounds like it's at scale. 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 27:13 Thomas Laffont So we did deals like Evernote and Box, and ironically, our most successful deal is one that broke all of the rules, ah, that I just laid out, which was Snapchat.
- ▶ 31:06 Thomas Laffont So I remember distinctly, uh, an investor when I called about the snap deal and saying, look, I know this is a bit off brand.
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:01 unnamed speaker Why is no one talking about Snapchat? 3 times in the scene
Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN
The $6M Verdict That Could Kill Social Media
- ▶ 18:05 unnamed speaker Sora app was basically the same as TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Snap, um, in terms of UI and UX design.
Stop Vibe Coding. Start Getting Customers.
- ▶ 17:14 Greg Isenberg I don't know if Snapchat was before them. 2 times in the scene
How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 26:02 Steve Huffman Uh, YouTube was maybe six months old when we launched, but then, you know, Instagram and TikTok and Snap and Twitter, all these companies came later and grew past us.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 4:27 Benedict Evans Certainly as a consumer, like I don't, can't remember which cloud snap uses and I don't care.
- ▶ 18:58 Benedict Evans You know, the sort of obvious example would be, you know, the progression from, okay, Flickr having a mobile app to Instagram to Snap or TikTok, because Instagram is taking the desktop experience. 2 times in the scene
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 34:53 Olivia Moore Like, the best consumer products are uniquely germinated in the mind of the founder, and there are things that you would have never guessed would be a good idea in advance, like Snapchat or Airbnb, all of these things.
The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 49:59 Nikhil Kamath Uh, we were looking at data from a bunch of people that the really young people, 16 to 20, uh, take Snapchat, for example, they might be spending, they might be logging into Snapchat the same number of times, but the amount of time they're… 2 times in the scene
Scott Galloway: The ONLY Savings Strategy You Need
- ▶ 1:18:49 Scott Galloway I know Snap's bad. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:27 Harry Stebbings Are we in a new norm for the Snapchats and open AIs of the world to have unreasonably high SBC and no one question it?
Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- ▶ 37:20 Garrett Langley Snapchat's really big.
The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 0:09 Codie Sanchez Bill Gurley is a legendary venture capitalist, early investor at Uber, DoorDash, Asana, eBay, Snap, and today we're breaking down who will actually survive in an AI dominated world and the skill stack that makes you anti-fragile instead of…
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:51 Michel Tricot And today that's going to be TikTok or, or, or Snapchat.
I Make $15K/Month From One Website
- ▶ 5:32 Maddox Schmidlkoffer And that was cross posted to Instagram reels, YouTube shorts and Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Maddox Schmidlkoffer YouTube videos, Instagram videos, Snapchat videos, which made it super easy.
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 6:00 Benedict Evans If I install Snap on my iPhone, I don't know, in fact, I honestly can't remember which cloud it runs on.
#2297 Elad Gil backed 40 unicorns. This is next
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:00 unnamed speaker Snapchat is an 11 and a half billion dollar company with a billion MAU and Q-three adjusted EBIT of a hundred and thirty two million.
OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- ▶ 31:31 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, you know, and, and maybe the better example here is what Facebook did to Snapchat, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 18:02 Simon Squibb That, you know, you look at things like Facebook, it did such a great job of becoming a valuable company because it had all the attention, and then on top apps came, you know, like Snapchat and Instagram, and again, they drawed all the…
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:11 John Coogan Like, exactly slow to move and launch competitive products, and so a lot of the, you see this continuously where Snapchat comes out, Stories is on a tear, and you're looking at the Snapchat growth curve, and you're like, this is gonna kill… 4 times in the scene
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:32 John Coogan But that era, like post Facebook, there was Foursquare, Twitter, Pinterest, Snap, there were just like a new one every year was popping up.
X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:45 John Coogan Anti-ads, anti-ads, but I just see, like, what does it take to get substack into the Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit category, sort of like Dakacorn category, and you imagine that for a lot of these, like, if you're, they're clearly trying to…
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:39 John Coogan People sharing content through their Snapchat is a messenger.
Stop Trusting Meta & Google: The Truth About Ad Tracking
- ▶ 2:23 unnamed speaker And then you also now most advertisers are sending their sales up to both meta and Google and tick tock and snap and pin and everything else by a conversion APIs.
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