Robbie Wade
Co-Founder & CEO, ThisApp. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Robby Wade is an Australian tech entrepreneur who co-founded ThisApp, an all-in-one messaging and coordination app. He previously worked at National Australia Bank, co-founded investment group Nebula Partners, and served as Chief Operating Officer of Vid.
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Everything Robbie Wade said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wade: End-to-end encryption is a bandaid fix degrading messaging products
“I think at the same time, It's a bandaid fix for companies that we don't trust in that sense. And so I think we need to figure out our relationship with that because it's impacting the quality of the products that we're using.”
Wade: Western Lean Startup Mentality Has Created a Shortage of Bold Innovation
“I think the sort of absence of innovation is the result of, I guess, how bold the mission is, but also I think we have this sort of mentality in the West where it's been like this sort of lean startup approach where it's like pick a niche, monopolize in that o…”
Wade: Uber was doomed to fail in China regardless of execution
“Uber was fighting a lost fight in that time. I don't think that they could, regardless of what they did, it wasn't gonna win. Given that there was a domestic option that, you know, everybody could back you know, there's a little bit of nationalism that comes o…”
Wade: Product teams shouldn't handicap communication features over edge-case abuse fears
“Forwarding and sharing are two of the most important features on, like, in social communication that exists today, and without them, it would be an enormous amount of friction to be able to get things done, so I think we also just have to become more trusting …”
Wade: In-app sharing restrictions are pointless against screenshots and copy-paste
“If the user can hack it together, like if they wanted to share company information and they can copy and paste it, or they can screenshot it, If they want to, they can do it, right? So like, what would be the advantage of feature stopping them in that sense wh…”
Wade: Founders trap themselves by focusing on narrow visions over 20-year roadmaps
“Think of like how an artist like sketches a piece of paper. If you watch like a, someone who's good at sketching, they sketch like the bigger picture and you can start to see like the outlines of the product. And they do like the sort of like shading and detai…”
Wade: Audio messages drove WeChat's early success due to keyboard friction
“WeChat Sort of secret sauce was they introduced audio messages because a lot of Chinese people found the keyboard quite hard to use. And so that's why audio messages sort of took off in the East much more than they did in the West.”
Wade: Group event creation drives viral user acquisition in chat apps
“The other beautiful thing about events is they have a really cool, like, growth loop in the sense that, you know, someone creates an event or a trip, usually they're going with four, five, six people and whatnot, so it allows you to kickstart that sort of vira…”
Wade: Ads account for only 10% to 15% of WeChat's revenue
“Like it's only about 10 to 15% of their sort of revenue pie is advertisements. Whereas in the West, you're looking at 98 to 99%, especially in the cases of Facebook and whatnot.”
Wade: Innovating in Messaging Means Fighting Companies Richer Than Governments
“You have to be insane to consider innovating in this space because you're going up against companies that have more money than most government governments and have the bit, the largest user bases in the world.”
Wade: Cracking global in-chat payments will be messaging's next major evolution
“None of the chat ups have actually nailed payments at a global level. Like you can send messages globally, but you can't send payments globally. I definitely think that's the next frontier. Whoever cracks that, hopefully us that'll be, you know, the next sort …”
Wade: Western Tech Underutilizes Feature Revenue in Favor of Ads
“I think feature facilitating revenue is something that's underrated in the West. Like our sort of business models are kind of either advertisement or subscription, and that's kind of it.”
Wade: Digital finance will achieve borderless freedom, though harder than information
“And I think finance will have its time. It will be harder to do. There's more there's more nuances with money than there is with information”
Wade: Friends-of-friends privacy models fail before a social network reaches scale
“When there is zero or a hundred or a thousand friends of friends is very limited, right? Because you don't have a lot of friends on there. It's not, it hasn't reached the scale of Instagram and Facebook and whatnot. And so like that, that's the gap that I'm aw…”
Wade: WhatsApp exposes phone numbers to all members when added to groups
“WhatsApp not only does that, you can just be dropped in a group without your permission and everybody can see your phone number. Like I could just drop you in a group of a 150 people and they all have your phone number instantly.”
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