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Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Eventually a majority of people will spend their lives in VR
“I also almost don't see a future where at some point that's where a majority of people spend their lives because we're already pretty close.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 43:18 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: More B2B companies do well on Product Hunt than B2C
“Some people, they ask me, hey, like, I don't know, is Product Hunt, like, Do B to B companies do well there? And I'm like, yeah, like probably more B to B companies than B to C companies actually.”
Ryan Hoover Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 28:48 How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
20VC Prediction Partly held up
Hoover: Product Hunt will expand to all passion categories within 5 years
“In five years, you'll see Product Hunt turn into a community and a site for all kinds of people and all kinds of things. And it will be a place where you can find all kinds of things from You know, whatever you're most passionate about, and you can find like-m…”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 29:25 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt did not monetize until after its AngelList acquisition
“We raised a seed in the series A, we had capital to grow, and we didn't actually try to make money until after we were acquired by AngelList.”
Ryan Hoover Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 33:26 How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hoover: At most 50% of products on Product Hunt are consumer
“People think that most of product hunt is actually consumer as well. It's probably, I don't know, 50% at most is consumer. There's a lot of B to B stuff on there.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 16:55 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Hoover: McDonald's partnered with Niantic across 3,000 stores in Japan
“Today, they announced it just got released in Japan, the game for the first time, and McDonald's partnered with them, and their gym's now at nearly 3000 stores in Japan.”
Ryan Hoover Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:36 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoover: A community-driven podcast discovery leader will inevitably emerge
“From a market perspective, I don't see a world where we don't have something like that in podcasts, like a place where people can discover and engage and almost geek out about podcasts together. To date, those exist in like on Reddit to some extent and, Variou…”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 13:06 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Tech will see more distributed teams driven by Slack and Zoom
“I believe we'll see more and more distributed teams, more remote workers. It's sort of this movement towards that direction. And I think more people will be willing to build teams like that because it's easier to work remotely with Slack and like various video…”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 19:15 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt grew 50% month-over-month leading into YC
“Leading into, to the YC interview, we were growing 50% month over month”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 23:09 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Hoover: Miami is cheaper all-in than the Bay Area and LA
“It's cheaper than the Bay Area. It's cheaper than LA. When you kind of counter Kind of like all in costs.”
Ryan Hoover Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 8:32 How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt reached cash flow breakeven within 12 months of monetizing
“Once we started generating revenue, we did so very quickly and we got to cashflow breakeven. I want to say a year, maybe 12 months after we started generating revenue.”
Ryan Hoover Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 33:50 How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Contradicted
Hoover: Weekend Fund has invested in over 110 companies
“We've invested in over a 110 companies now.”
Ryan Hoover Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 1:00:08 How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt Grew 50% Month-over-Month Leading Into YC Application
“We, if I'm not mistaken, I think we were like 50% month over month. And that's not counting like with hundred users in month one, but it was like over the course of a few months with some users.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 4:50 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hoover: Wirecutter never raised a full venture capital round
“They never raised like a real VC full round.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 8:20 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hoover: Gabe Rivera has never raised outside capital for Techmeme
“What Gabe's done with TechMe, which has been around forever. You know, it's been, it's basically a force and like a thing that everyone in technology knows about... And it doesn't, he hasn't raised money.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 8:34 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Massive influx of new software products will be built by 2024
“In fact, in the next five years, we're going to see a ridiculous number of products being built, partly because it's more accessible, it's easier, you don't actually need any money to build anything.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 9:59 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
a16z Assertion Supported
Hoover: Nintendo stock rose 96% after Pokémon Go launch
“Nintendo is up to 96%. I just took this morning since early July.”
Ryan Hoover Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:23 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
a16z Assertion Supported
Hoover: Foursquare foot traffic data accurately predicted Chipotle sales declines
“Using Foursquare data that can predict that Chipotle sales are going down just due to the foot traffic alone.”
Ryan Hoover Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:39 a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt grew user visits 50% MoM in early months
“It was obviously still very small because it was pretty early days, but we were seeing about 50% month-over-month growth in total, like, top-line user visits. And that was consistent for the first, I don't know, two, three, four months.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 0:59 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt started as a 20-minute email list setup
“So built this email list, sent it out, got a few hundred subscribers initially, and it took me 20 minutes to set up.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 2:08 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hoover: Casey Neistat used Product Hunt's Ship for Beme Panels
“Like Casey Neistat and his new app, they used it to start capturing interest for beam panels or new app that's coming out.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 3:52 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hoover: AngelList's original MVP was an email digest
“AngelList, ironically, was one of those. Like, AngelList's MVP essentially was an email digest.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 7:10 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Over half of Product Hunt's community is outside the US
“More than half the product and community is actually outside the U S”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 18:54 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Manual Twitter outreach converted 80% of makers to join Product Hunt
“And so when we realized that I would every morning go on Twitter and like search for their Twitter username and say Hey Jill, your product is, is over here. People are talking about it. Do you want to join and answer questions? And like, 80% of the time they'd…”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 22:26 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hoover: AngelList platform sets up funds for $12k replacing $100k costs
“So they do all of this work that would normally cost maybe a 100,000 dollars to set up all for like 12,000 dollars and they take a piece of the carry.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 38:50 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
20VC Assertion Supported
Hoover: Original Product Hunt app was built in 5 days
“The first version was really a Ruby on Rails app that Nathan, my buddy, he built it over like a five-day Thanksgiving holiday”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 6:27 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
20VC Assertion Supported
Hoover: Product Hunt email digest has hundreds of thousands of subscribers
“There's the email digest, which hundreds of thousands of people subscribe to.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 14:21 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Investors approached Product Hunt first during early fundraising
“Investors started approaching me before I never actually approached investors in the beginning.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 23:58 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Betaworks' Matt was a daily Product Hunt user before investing
“Matt, for example, he was a super early user, Matt at beta works. And when we started, when I started talking to him, like he already understood the value of it and he was a user and consumed it daily himself.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 24:28 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ryan Hoover: Podcasting creation is exploding at the same scale as video
“The video and the TV space and even the movie space as well is there's an explosion of creation happening there. And the same is, is absolutely true for podcasts.”
Ryan Hoover Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:25 a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts
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