Ben Trenda
Founder, Backchannel. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ben Trenda is an adtech and media executive who previously served as CEO of Are You a Human and CRO of Spaceback. He founded Goodtalk, a platform aimed at troll-free public conversations, before going on to launch Kula and private executive network Backchannel.
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Everything Ben Trenda said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Trenda: Good Talk is first since Instagram or Snap with celebrity PMF
“So we're the first company since Instagram or Snap to create product market fit with that segment of users.”
Trenda: The driver of Twitter's success is what makes it awful
“And it led me to the conclusion that the thing that makes Twitter successful is the very thing that makes it awful.”
Trenda: Overture basically invented Google's business model
“Early in my career, that was a company called Overture. So we invented Google's business model basically.”
Trenda: Major platforms cannot solve toxicity due to open participation model
“This is antithetical to those platforms. On those platforms, and you even hear these CEOs when they talk about, like, Jack Dorsey talks about the power of Twitter, it's that every user can participate in every conversation. And so you can't solve a problem tha…”
Trenda: Good Talk SMS notifications achieve a 51% open rate
“The next time Brad Feld goes live, you're going to get a text, and you're going to open that at a rate of 51%.”
Trenda: 90% of Good Talk users eventually download the mobile app
“We're an SMS first product, although 90% of the users do eventually download the app, but we just believe you have to show them the value before you get them to download an app.”
Trenda: Good Talk beta reached 500 high-profile users and 20M followers
“Since we launched our beta five months ago, we've had over 500 high profile people like that broadcasting to over twenty million followers.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ben's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 THE PITCHLEDGER | Founder, Backchannel | 1 | 8 | — | full record on the Pitch → |