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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Instagram comes up
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 14:41 Jonathan Lewinsohn Instagram feed is just memes of comedians being cynical and not to mention my personal humor, but I said, how can we quantitatively demonstrate what we're seeing, which is a flood of these opportunities.
Morgan Housel – The Art of Spending Money (EP.466)
- ▶ 35:31 Morgan Housel It has gone supernova in the last 15 years with social media, because no matter how well you're doing, no matter how much you make, no matter where you live or how successful you feel, there is somebody on Instagram who looks prettier,…
- ▶ 55:50 Morgan Housel One, a lot of times the experience that you want is what will make a good Instagram picture.
Anthony Pompliano – Building Influence and Capital to Live an Extraordinary Life (EP.430)
- ▶ 19:35 Anthony Pompliano When I left that team and was still working at Facebook, there was a lot of other people that were really on Instagram and they were trying to figure out, hey, how do we come over to Facebook?
- ▶ 51:11 Anthony Pompliano My brother, he's growing pretty fast on Instagram right now. 2 times in the scene
Donald Miller - Building a Story Brand (EP.426)
- ▶ 38:26 Donald Miller Follow her on Instagram, by the way.
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 56:04 Graham Weaver But then they were scrolling for hours on TikTok or Instagram reels or whatever.
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 36:12 Alexis Ohanian You get the freedom to be, let's say more honest than you would be on your Instagram, but you still have the accountability where you have an identity you actually care about.
- ▶ 50:40 Ted Seides So a lot of people finding you with ideas can be tied to this massive social media following that you have on Twitter, on Instagram.
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 2:25 Ted Seides Jim shared an Instagram photo of an on-campus protest encampment with the words,
Brett Barakett - Digging for the Puck at Tremblant Capital (EP.386)
- ▶ 6:13 Ted Seides Jim shared an Instagram photo of an on-campus protest encampment
- ▶ 49:13 Brett Barakett And as we all now know, the joke is, oh, my phone's listening to me because I talked about buying a new pair of Hoka's and, you know, next thing you know, I go on Instagram and there's an ad for Hoka, you know, or whatever.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 10:56 Chris Dixon If you got lucky, you'd invest in Instagram or Snapchat, go look at the top apps in the app store. 2 times in the scene
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 50:55 Rick Heitzman You have stuff in your closet that you can monetize, or someone else's closet so you don't have to wear the same dress on Instagram again this weekend, and you can see why that makes sense.
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 23:06 Eric Resnick They want to post on Instagram, ironically, more about that mountain they climbed than that handbag or car they bought.
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 4:51 Ted Seides Chris founded Lowercase Capital in 2010, making seed stage investments in Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Stripe, among many others.
- ▶ 36:13 Chris Sacca And Stripe and Optimizely and Docker, and maybe with Instagram and Twitter, there was some overlap.
Rod Wong – Empty Rooms: Innovation in Biotech at RTW (Capital Allocators, EP. 310)
- ▶ 5:45 Ted Seides You can check her out at Greenwich Jewelry Concierge on Instagram.
Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- ▶ 5:48 Ted Seides Hop on Instagram and look up at Greenwich Jewelry Concierge to check it out. 2 times in the scene
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 5:26 Ted Seides Hop on Instagram and look up at Greenwich Jewelry Concierge to check it out.
Frank Brosens – Culture and Partnership at Taconic Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.282)
- ▶ 5:50 Ted Seides Hop on Instagram and look up at Greenwich Jewelry Concierge to check it out. 2 times in the scene
Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- ▶ 43:30 Andy Golden I ask all of you to follow me on my Instagram account, sparky underscore golden, and you'll get a better sense of where I'm coming from.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 41:41 Avichal Garg We have another unannounced VP level person from Instagram.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 7:40 Chris Dixon Fast forward, you have TikTok, Instagram, all these other kinds of things.
- ▶ 13:11 Chris Dixon Instagram is zero dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 Chris Dixon And of course, as I mentioned, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, zero.
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 33:53 Olaf Carlson-Wee People on Instagram who make their whole career posting on Instagram don't like Instagram. 4 times in the scene
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Shock in a Multi-Polar World (Capital Allocators, EP.237)
- ▶ 12:54 Marko Papic People have Instagram and they have social media and it's just very difficult to convince
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
- ▶ 14:19 Ali Hamed When you go to Instagram, you're just looking at meme accounts.
- ▶ 33:39 Ali Hamed In Instagram, the more followers you have, the easier to just get more followers. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 Ted Seides Okay, this other category, which is one we probably talked the most about last time, this whole area of novel assets, and you mentioned network decay, and you've talked about Amazon and Instagram as if they were the platform.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 13:48 Ben Gilbert I remember you having the insight of like, I remember reading the article that Instagram was bought for a billion dollars.
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
- ▶ 41:57 Stefan Kaluzny They're staggering numbers, but we've embraced influencers in Hot Topic in a way that has evolved from even three years ago where we had embraced traditional social media, Facebook and Instagram, and that had evolved from
Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- ▶ 25:53 Alex Rodriguez There's a few things, you know, it's like, you know, algorithm and Google, like you see things that just pop up or in your Instagram, there's a certain kind of feel you get.
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 10:52 Jesse Walden Whereas today, think about an image you see on Instagram.
- ▶ 14:18 Jesse Walden So one way to think about what's happening with NFTs is we're building this universal open media library on top of which any developer can build the next Spotify or build the next Instagram or build the next Facebook.
- ▶ 37:46 Linda Xie And there's an app that aggregates purchases from all of these different marketplaces and displays it almost like an Instagram feed.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 14:36 Jeff Hausenbold I had to then deal when Instagram was bought by Facebook and the markets didn't understand that one was monetizing through advertising.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 26:17 Chris Dixon So just like as the phone got better, the camera got better, which then allowed Instagram to come along and Instagram made photography on the phone even more popular, which in turn made Apple invest more into the camera. 2 times in the scene
James Clear – Mastering Habits (Capital Allocators, EP.171)
- ▶ 49:03 James Clear Who to follow on Twitter or Instagram or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:14 James Clear Like I have a bazillion Instagram DMS, but I just, I, I don't respond to any of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:18 James Clear She has a, an Instagram post where she takes, she's got this, one of her songs, one of her popular songs. 2 times in the scene
Ted Seides - Capital Allocators Year in Review (Capital Allocators, EP.170)
- ▶ 6:57 Ted Seides Lastly, we recently started YouTube and Instagram accounts alongside LinkedIn and Twitter to share episodes and quotes across social media.
Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 1:00:00 Taimur Hyat We've probably all developed a few coronavirus, but in the same spirit, I would say one has been a slight obsession, which sadly is not unique when I look at people's Instagram feeds of baking banana bread and experimenting with different…
Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- ▶ 1:00:24 Greg Fleming I do have an Instagram account
Mike Mauzé - Escape Velocity for CPG Brands at VMG Partners (First Meeting, EP.16)
- ▶ 49:32 Mike Mauze We do use that, and we do look at Instagram, and we do look at how brands are using social media, who's following it, what's the growth rate of that.
Doug Phillips – Middle of the Fairway at the University of Rochester (Capital Allocators, EP.123)
- ▶ 58:32 Doug Phillips So we don't use Twitter or Instagram
Peter Kraus - Widening the Aperture on Alpha (First Meeting, EP.14)
- ▶ 1:13:15 Peter Kraus They're posted on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 58:36 Beezer Clarkson I don't know if Facebook and Instagram are fair places to do diligence on people since it becomes so personal.
Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12)
- ▶ 1:04:32 Jason Karp I'm on Instagram as an observer. 2 times in the scene
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 1:09:49 Ash Fontana Like, I haven't been on Facebook for many years, and on Instagram, I follow people that weld bicycles, but that's about it.
Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)
- ▶ 38:05 Jay Girotto I mean, they like, wholesome concert, they can actually sing, which is unusual, you know, amongst, but like, we told our kids they couldn't use their phones when they're in there, and they actually, you know, but like, 90% of the audience…
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 31:06 Jonathan Tepper You basically have people going, working for industry, backing government, then negotiating with their former partners, and so there's no real effort to, one, prevent mergers, so Google was able to basically buy DoubleClick, Facebook was…
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 12:11 Paul Rabil Shortly thereafter, Instagram launched, Twitter launched, Snapchat, and we
- ▶ 20:05 Paul Rabil So if you're an athlete right now, I think the biggest platform to be on would be Instagram. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Paul Rabil But with Instagram rolling out their IGTV and IG stories, I mean, it's no secret.
Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)
Chris Ailman – CalSTRS' Venerable CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.86)
- ▶ 18:22 Chris Ailman Particularly to the younger Gen X people, they need to figure out how to write an agenda item that can go on Instagram, because we have some members that will only look at that, and we need to be agnostic as to the median, but just get the…
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 1:04:00 Josh Wolfe So, you know, kid was sadly, tragically, you know, taking these Instagram pictures where he's sitting on the roof and, you know, showing his feet dangling and whatever, and of course he plummets to his death.
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 1:01:01 Michael Cembalest For everybody out there, I have an Instagram account of just my fishing adventures.
Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 1:08:42 Chatri Sityodtong So, you know, we're active on Facebook, on Twitter, Instagram, et cetera.
Dan Schorr – Death, Ice Cream, and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.19)
- ▶ 49:11 Dan Schorr Outlets to voice it, you know, on Instagram and on Facebook in particular and Twitter.
- ▶ 52:43 Dan Schorr Facebook's eat, vice cream, same for Instagram.