Everything Adam Leibsohn said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Leibsohn spent a year homeless to self-fund his first startup
“I actually gave up my apartment, and I went homeless for a year, and instead of quitting my job, I kept my job, and I paid rent like I would pay rent, but I didn't have anything to rent, so I paid that rent into a savings account and built my own fund.”
Giphy will expand GIFs into virtual reality, smart glasses, and paper
“GIFs in virtual reality, GIFs in your glasses, GIFs outside of computers, GIFs on paper. You know, a whole new kind of search engine that no one's ever seen before, where everything moves, which resembles all of life. Just think of what you look at in the worl…”
Leibsohn targeted VCs and tech journalists with vanity Google search ads
“I started taking out search ads against prominent VCs and reporters in tech so that when they Googled themselves, they'd get an ad from me and it worked astonishingly well.”
Relying on too many 'what ifs' signals a startup is dead
“When you start dealing in too many what ifs, you probably know it's done. I think that's a good signal.”
Startups attempting to turn personal data into currency will keep resurfacing
“I was not the first to try this. I've not been the last. I think it'll come around again and again and again.”
Google succeeded because slow early internet speeds forced a text-based web
“Processor speed was also slow, and so again, imagery was hard to move, and that's why the initial web was very textual, and that's why Google was so good at indexing stuff, because it was all filled with words and not with images.”
Mobile channel fragmentation will drive GIF adoption for efficient expression
“As we are increasingly mobile and as we have More and more channel fragmentation. People are going to be looking for the most efficient way to express themselves maximally, and GIFs are really that amazing sweet spot of making a point, but having to do very li…”
Giphy plans to monetize GIF search intent via contextual paid search
“We're looking at the idea of turning gift search into something that can be contextual, that can be highly relevant, highly targeted, where you're getting delivered content against a query that is directly related to what you're looking for, but may have been …”
Giphy powers the native GIF buttons inside Twitter, Facebook, and Slack
“We actually power that button. We power the gift button inside of Twitter. We power the gift button in Facebook. We power gifts in Slack.”
Leibsohn's early startup Voyeurl acquired 50,000 pre-launch signups
“So we got like 50,000 signups and then, you know, lo and behold, we turn the service on and it goes great.”
A massive mainstream audience still does not know what GIFs are
“There's, you know, there's a giant group of people out there that don't know what gifts are still, that don't know how to use them. And our job is to make sure they can, and then make sure that it's easy. And so you want to make gifts as fluid as what, you kno…”
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