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Bryan Kim

Founder, Mido Capital. On 2 shows, 7 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Bryan Kim is an early-stage consumer tech and AI investor known for backing breakout companies including ElevenLabs, Function Health, Captions, and Cluely. Prior to launching his own firm, Mido Capital, he spent over five years as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and helped scale Snap through its hypergrowth and IPO.

2shows
7appearances
33statements
8resolved
5supported
1contradicted
63%fully supported

Everything Bryan Kim said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kim: Creativity is emerging as the primary limiting factor for growth
“The new limiting factor is possibly creativity.”
Bryan Kim Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 44:35 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim: Apple's App Tracking Transparency severely crippled paid advertising channels
“ATT did kneecap a lot of the sort of advertising, paid advertising side of things”
Bryan Kim Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 10:18 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kim: Meta's AI creative tools will restore the efficacy of paid ads
“Facebook or Meta is investing heavily on You know, AI side of it, so that all, sometimes all you need to do is just say, hey, like I have this idea, here's like the base creative. And now they're able to like change what, how it looks, add different, you know,…”
Bryan Kim Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 10:31 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Kim: Five of top 10 iOS productivity apps are Google, ChatGPT #1
“If you go to app store today, top five out of top 10 productivity apps are all Google. It's insane. And Chachi B is number one.”
Bryan Kim Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 8:04 Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
a16z Assertion Supported
Lapse Gated Product Usage Behind Mandatory Invitations to Five Friends
“And what they actually gated the product usage behind is not only a pretty lengthy onboarding process of how the product works, but also you can't use it unless you invited five new friends.”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 7:16 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Viggle AI Restricts Creation Behind a Three-Step Discord Onboarding Process
“Now what Viggle does is it's only available in Discord to create. There are three steps you need to go through to be able to create a Viggle. That includes reading the rules. That also involves actually going through the mechanics of how to build the right seq…”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 8:50 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Users Rarely Re-Enable App Notifications After Disabling Them
“I know this empirically, that once you turn a notification off, the chance of something turning that back on is extremely low.”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 12:26 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
a16z Insight
Civitai Relies on Status and Leaderboards for Creator Retention
“One of the companies that sort of focuses on fine-tuned image models and acting as a hub for that, there's a company called Civit AI. It's important for them to have a large, you know, density of fine-tuned image models. And so how do you actually, you know, e…”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 23:29 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
a16z Assertion Supported
Snapchat Streaks Require Three Consecutive Days of Video or Image Exchanges
“What that meant on Snapchat is I sent you a video, not a text, not a chat, a video, a snap, or image, image or video, and you sent me back something in a 24 hour period as well. And streak doesn't appear until three days of doing that.”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 17:35 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Bryan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

ShowRole thereEpsStatementsRecord
a16zLEDGER Founder, Mido Capital 7 33 50% 3/6 full record on the a16z Podcast →
SOURCERYLEDGER Founder, Mido Capital 0 0 100% 2/2 full record on Sourcery →
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