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20VC 60
Another Podcast 51
TBPN 36
Big Technology 32
Lenny's Podcast 30
Startups For the Rest of Us 23
All-In 22
the Startup Ideas Podcast 12
Acquired 8
BigDeal 5
Founder's Journal 3
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2
Latent Space 2
the Neon Show 2
Catalyst 2
the a16z Podcast 2
Starter Story 1
A Product Market Fit Show 1
the MAD Podcast 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Threads comes up on 20VC, Another Podcast, TBPN, Big Technology, Lenny's Podcast
Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:21 Jordi Hays Now, the threads playbook worked. 3 times in the scene
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 43:03 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, on threads, I saw this
This Simple App Makes $18K/Month
- ▶ 5:22 unnamed speaker Uh, from there, someone in Taiwan saw it, shared our app on threads, where it went viral all over again.
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 48:18 unnamed speaker You probably remember Threads, 2 times in the scene
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Rory O'Driscoll As three inveterate Twitter junkies here, we know what the action is, and it ain't on threads, okay? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:47 Harry Stebbings But before you move off that Alexander Wang has done 27 posts on X to three posts on threads. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:51 Jason Lemkin YC issuing a, uh, going on threads and telling everybody we're only doing growth rounds that that would, that would rock the world.
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:06 John Coogan I think about, well, what is threads revenue going to be? 2 times in the scene
Mutli-Millionaire CEO: The Simple Steps to Self-Made Success | Everette Taylor
- ▶ 46:56 Everette Taylor Uh, Threads is my favorite. 5 times in the scene
Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker Uh, some, some appeared on threads and Messenger plus Meta's Audience Network.
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:11 unnamed speaker So Zak had said, he said, we're also working on merging LLMs with the recommendation systems that power Facebook, Instagram threads, and our ad system.
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 58:29 Ranjan Roy Like, remember that was, I think when Meta figures it out by the end of this year, Zuck starts posting back on the skin border based Zuck is going to be back on, uh, threads posting all types of videos like that.
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:13 unnamed speaker And threads and WhatsApp and whatnot, but were they, were they actually driving attention? 2 times in the scene
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:45 Boris Cherny Uh, and then I also started to use Twitter at the time, because, like, I, I worked on threads back then, way back when, so I've been a threads user for a while, so I just, like, tried to see kind of, like, other platforms where people are. 2 times in the scene
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 31:16 Stephen Morris And, and their counterparties love this, you know, whether it's on Instagram, WhatsApp threads, Facebook.
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:10 John Coogan It's like, well, he's adding tons of people to the AI teams and tons of people to the Instagram teams and threads teams and Facebook core and marketing and salespeople and events people like the whole organization is just growing so fast…
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 24:26 Luke Harries So we post on X, we post on LinkedIn, we post on Blue Sky, we post on threads, every single channel, Product Hunt, Reddit, Hacker News.
- ▶ 30:45 Harry Stebbings Threads. 2 times in the scene
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 17:33 John Coogan It's literally ChatGPT threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp,
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 4:25 Benedict Evans I've done a couple of polls on this in LinkedIn and threads of like, is machine learning still AI?
Thursday's Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:25 unnamed speaker Zuck went on threads and announced that he was going to be building a five gigawatt data center. 2 times in the scene
Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:22 unnamed speaker Oh wow, like this is actually breaking through with just like everyday random people in the way that Threads has. 2 times in the scene
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 32:25 Tony Stubblebine And the example I usually give, because we already see this happening, which is we think Twitter, there was a Twitter exodus and it went to like most people think the Twitter exodus went to blue sky and to threads and originally a little…
The Complete AI Stack and Workflow for 100M+ Video Views
- ▶ 41:38 Roberto Nickson So I can upload it to threads X and LinkedIn, sometimes Reddit, Snapchat, et cetera, which don't have like the audio, the built-in audio tools of like TikTok, Instagram.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 6:35 Kevin Rose Because I've looked at stuff and I said, gosh, you know, we got the bigs in the room, you got the TikToks, you got the Instagram still dominating, and then you see some of the folks like, you know, threads that are just like copying and…
I Watched Dan Koe Break Down His AI Workflow OMG
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 6:12 Max Zeff You know, at the net, but I do think that this is compelling, and a lot of people spent a lot more time on the Sora app in the last week than they did on Threads or Blue Sky, and there's something to be said for that alone.
- ▶ 54:25 Max Zeff Uh, and you can also find me on threads and blue sky under the same handle.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 1:02:03 Alex Schultz It was threads, actually, but we, we literally wrapped with projectors, but we did, we turned Christ the Redeemer into threads. 7 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 2:54 Jordi Hays Four is Threads, which apparently just crossed four hundred million monthly active users.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:26 Harry Stebbings A great example of that is threads. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 31:13 Alex Kantrowitz I use it all the time for the show, and it provides unique and valuable context, including related news, tweets, blue skies, threads, when people are still threading.
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 47:26 Olivia Moore I think the animals diving was huge on, on threads, and all the Facebook products first, because of the maybe age demo of those users, and then slowly made their way to, like, X in other places.
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 46:25 Alex Kantrowitz Now, I wonder, actually, we spoke about this a bit on threads, I wonder how much of his, um, support for Trump was to sort of rig government policy in favor of his companies.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 1:53:34 Peter Deng I have accounts on, on, on, on X and, you know, threads, but, uh, really I think LinkedIn is the, the, the network of choice for me is just, I, I really, uh, I want to be able to passively kind of consume and learn about what, what's,…
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 31:47 Harry Stebbings Threads. 2 times in the scene
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 58:29 Ranjan Roy I mean, I'm feeling a bit cage matchy between these two, Kevin and Mark on this one, because like, to be like, you were just jealous that we were growing and you weren't, so you didn't give us resources, especially because that's not what…
The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- ▶ 28:33 Erik Torenberg The whole blue sky exodus, um, sort of, you know, people are threads, whatever people leaving X, uh, like it's a bit, and then Elon sort of, you know, with his sort of, uh, new impact on sort of the, like,
Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- ▶ 8:18 Aravind Srinivas So I could imagine Meta doing this, like, you know, on threads that could be like, uh, at Meta AI and, or it could automatically reply.
Conor Macdonald on "Why Meta Ads Are Failing" and "How AI is Saving E-Commerce".
- ▶ 9:14 Conor Macdonald Um, you know, they're supposed to launch ads in Meta's threads.
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 8:42 Sean Frank They do have threads. 5 times in the scene
Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
- ▶ 23:30 unnamed speaker Are you on threads? 2 times in the scene
The Formula for Capturing Your Attention, Price of Fame, & Algorithms as Editors — With Chris Hayes
- ▶ 1:36 Chris Hayes There are people posting on Blue Sky and X and Threads that I, like, learn from.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:04:10 Jordi Hays Like threads seemingly has created a new ecosystem for people that on, you know, and they have this amazing, every, I get notifications. 2 times in the scene
How to build your AI App with Cursor, Firebase, Vercel (Full Tutorial)
- ▶ 47:59 Riley Brown We, when we launched the app thread, we got the, someone tried to do that on like the third day we launched.
Why The Costco Guys And Hawk Tuah Took Over The Internet
- ▶ 15:09 Alex Kantrowitz With something like a blue sky, you have now have blue sky, you have threads, you have Instagram, you have Twitter, and instead of like one winning out, which there won't be an absolute winner, you're just going to have diluted experiences… 2 times in the scene
Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- ▶ 30:49 Alex Kantrowitz So now I'm thinking about meta and usually the, what we predict is like, what's going to happen with meta products, threads and stuff like that.
Episode 744 | Bluesky, TinySeed is Raising, YC Backs Competitors,...
- ▶ 6:08 Einar Vollset What was the other one before that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Rob Walling And where is Threads in all this? 9 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:11:57 John Coogan X looks viable, you get threads.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 2:19:59 Jordi Hays Well, hasn't he just bailed out to threads?
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 12:12 unnamed speaker Of the leftist internet threads, and especially blue sky, celebrated the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 8:43 John Coogan They, he wasn't saying like, this is going to be a left-wing space. 2 times in the scene
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 0:33 Jordi Hays Tumblr, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, podcasting, Twitter, X, Blue Sky, Mastodon, Threads, you name it, she's dominated it.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 28:42 unnamed speaker Maybe they should head over to threads and blue sky and just become like the lib, uh, poly market and just always have the, always have the market like 10 points more.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 1:41:18 John Coogan You know, we stand with posters generally, so as long as he doesn't go to Blue Sky or Threads, as long as Derek, you stay on X, you're safe.
Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- ▶ 45:28 Alex Kantrowitz I think Blue Sky and Threads, which Threads has added fifteen million users since the start of November, have definitely benefited from this. 6 times in the scene
Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström on their future with Generative AI
- ▶ 16:42 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, somebody on threads tagged me and was like, the male voice sounds like you, and I listened and I was like, not the same tone, but also the cadence and the type of questions.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:36 Ben Gilbert Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and now Threads.
- ▶ 4:39:38 Ben Gilbert And this is just like what Meta did with threads, with WhatsApp.
- ▶ 4:39:42 Ben Gilbert You know, with threads, they've said, we're not monetizing it right now.
Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit
- ▶ 1:02:13 Naomi Gleit And threads.
How NotebookLM Was Made
- ▶ 46:08 Raiza Martin There is a video on threads.
Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- ▶ 35:48 Raiza Martin Um, somebody uploaded, I think it's on threads.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:12:28 Mark Zuckerberg But the, the others, I mean, you know, we went through a period where it's like, we had Facebook and a handful of small apps, and now we have, like, you know, four apps that have a billion people or more using them, you know, hopefully in…
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 14:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Instagram, Messenger, the Facebook app, and threads gets refactored in a way where instead of leaving that application to go to a ChatGPT-like app, you would just stay in the app.
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:04:26 Mark Zuckerberg I mean, this actually was a thing that we talked about for a while, because it was pretty clear that, you know, Facebook is continuing to grow in importance in the world, which I think a lot of people don't appreciate and is kind of…
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Kantrowitz On threads yesterday, he posted the obvious truth is that we all, including Apple, miss Steve Jobs.
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 17:54 Jason Calacanis Threads is amazing. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 17:24 Alex Kantrowitz Do you think that, um, meta AI and threads have kind of a similar feel to them, which is that you sort of get it having seen it work elsewhere, but it still just doesn't really work in the setting that they exist in. 6 times in the scene
5 validated startup ideas that will make you money
- ▶ 9:10 Chris Koerner Or, or threads. 2 times in the scene
How to write a book with AI [step-by-step guide]
- ▶ 35:50 Justin Welsh I can take that same screenshot, same context, move it over to Instagram, copy the tweet, bring it over to threads.
Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- ▶ 36:39 Jason Calacanis Or like Zuck is doing on threads.
How to Become a Marketing Master (Noah Kagan, Appsumo & Million Dollar Weekend)
- ▶ 4:14 Noah Kagan We're going to try Twitter, LinkedIn, threads, meta, blog, or threads, uh, Instagram, TikTok. 2 times in the scene
Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- ▶ 2:19 Jason Calacanis I went over to Threads to see what was going on over there and I got absolutely savaged. 4 times in the scene
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 48:01 Kara Swisher I don't want to have it for that much, but I was like, I just wanted to see how good I was, and if I could use Twitter and threads to do that, and I did.
For 5 years he struggled to get traction. Then with AI he grew 12x— in 1 year | Scott Stevenson, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 13:30 Pablo Srugo Reminds me of my, uh, my usage of, of threads.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:18 Ben Gilbert There's two good diagrams that I found in the research that we'll put on the acquired Twitter account and the Threads account to kind of get access to these visuals that I think are pretty good illustrations of
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:15 Zaria Parvez Like, I remember, for example, when threads was a thing for like a .2 seconds, we posted a photo of like big bird.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:07 Ben Gilbert This is like meta launching threads or Microsoft launching teams.
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Zero)
- ▶ 1:39:01 Tom Conrad I'm at tconrad on all the socials from Twitter to threads to Instagram.
LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 0:11 Benedict Evans Um, and, and we discussed whether we should talk about Twitter and threads, and I wrote about it, and even when I wrote about leaving Twitter, cancelling my Twitter account, I thought this feels very inside high school. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:37 Benedict Evans One, one of the really interesting design choices in threads is an option called hide for everyone. 2 times in the scene
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 37:52 Brian McCullough What a hundred million users until threads. 2 times in the scene
Hamas vs. Israel Rewrites Social Media Norms
- ▶ 2:23 Reed Albergotti And why can't, um, threads become that, right?
- ▶ 21:00 Alex Kantrowitz Ok, so that brings us to our real second segment, which is a perfect lead and read, so thank you for that, which is, I'm getting absolutely destroyed on threads today.
The magic customer
- ▶ 35:18 Benedict Evans Um, and crypto writ large sort of has that, has gone in through a moment of that at the moment, but, you know, every, every, every time I say on, on sort of threads, now that I've left Twitter because it's run by an anti-seamite, now that… 2 times in the scene
Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)
- ▶ 1:33:09 Katie Dill And then I think, um, that name was taken on threads. 2 times in the scene
How To Build An Audience From Scratch | Yung Pueblo
- ▶ 0:10 Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) Like, Instagram, X, Threads, like, these places will be beautiful avenues that make it really easy to connect with other people.
- ▶ 10:04 Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) On one end, it's really positive because, like, Instagram, you know, X, um, threads, like, these places will be, you know, beautiful avenues that make it really easy to connect with other people, but then at the end of the day, you have no…
- ▶ 35:50 Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) People know what they, what to expect from you, and since I've been breaking away from that, like, being on Instagram and being on, like, threads and Twitter has been so much more fun, because I'm just like, you know what, I don't even…
- ▶ 42:32 Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) On X, on threads, you know, um, and my books are in bookstores everywhere.
Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)
- ▶ 1:06:44 Maya Prohovnik I'm on threads, I guess, and I'm on LinkedIn.
How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
- ▶ 29:22 Christopher Lochhead Threads. 10 times in the scene
From Xbox to Databricks: Carly Taylor’s Rebel Path in Data Science & Gaming AI
- ▶ 38:14 Carly Taylor I'm on threads, uh, but I don't really talk about data science on there.
Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)
- ▶ 47:41 Oji Udezue A good way to illustrate the power of network effects is Twitter did not die because threads came up, came about, right? 4 times in the scene
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:39 Harry Stebbings Each platform has their own who rise through the ranks on that platform natively, and that is why threads will not work. 2 times in the scene
5 Steps to Building a Better Internet Audience
- ▶ 13:12 Alex Lieberman Text content means you'll likely be posting on LinkedIn, Twitter, threads, and email.
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 41:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia That's why there's so many attempts now threads, uh, like even entrepreneurs, when we're talking about, they want to make an impact.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:51 Ben Gilbert Zoom or Slack or these has like basically no bottlenecks to infinite instant growth or Instagram launching threads, you know, instantly has a hundred million members.