Social Products
topic on 5 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
More or Less 
Lenny's Podcast 
How I Built This 
20VC
7 statements about Social Products, every show
Sam Lessin: Social networks mint new mechanics to combat social currency inflation
“And just to riff on this for one more second, that actually is, I think, one theory of generally product, like social products in general, is that all sorts of features effectively, like there's an inflation rate that exists in social currencies. And so what h…”
Tavel: Social products depend on a core action that drives retention
“What I, what you realize when you look at social products is that there are almost always is this action, which I call the core action. Of that product that forms the foundation of the product. When a user completes this action, it's clear that they both under…”
Lessin: New social platforms emerge because older networks' social capital gets stratified
“One of the reasons there's always, like, a new social product historically that comes out for a new generation is because the social capital structures of the old products get stratified and stuck, and so the new people don't want to play the rigged game”
Sam Lessin: Prior social app success gives no guarantee of repeating it
“To make a social part of that work, yes, you have to be in Dave's list of the top 10 product people in the world, but you also need incredible luck and incredible timing. And like, it's not clear that just because you did especially social once properly and go…”
Systrom: Machine learning is fundamentally changing social product consumption
“We think fundamentally machine learning is changing the way people consume social products, and we want to ride that wave and build the best social product using machine learning we can.”
Davison: Social and communication products are not rational to build
“I think the potential of social products and communication products is so, it's so large, right? It's, they can impact our relationships and they can impact society in such a big way, but they're really hard and there's a lot of luck and there's a lot of timin…”
Hackett: Social product creators must take responsibility for civil discourse
“If you're designing a social product, and you kind of just throw your hands up and go, it's the internet, you're wrong. Like, that is not the era we live in, and we need to take on that responsibility as people who make these things.”