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Bier: Gas prevents anonymous bullying with pre-written, uplifting friend polls
“So the way that we've designed Gas Gas is similar to a lot of anonymous apps that exist in the App Store today, but many of those have been plagued by bullying, and we use a novel mechanic where you answer polls about your friends that we write, and we make al…”
Pujji: Founders should not build startups expecting a rapid acquisition
“I wouldn't now tell anyone listening to ever try that. Like if that happens, if you're Nikita and in nine months, they buy you for a hundred million. God bless. Like that's amazing. I don't think that's the norm.”
Lieberman: Gas app reached 30,000 downloads per hour at its peak
“I last saw Nikita say that they're getting 30,000 downloads of the app an hour”
Lieberman: Gas bootstrapped to a massive scale with only part-time staff
“What I'll also say is I bet they are printing money right now because they haven't raised any money. I looked on LinkedIn. There's three co-founders, and then two or three other people working on this, but all part-time, and I think a very high percentage of p…”
Lieberman: School-by-school distribution creates network effects for social products
“So in the context of gas, by them going high school by high school, the high schools are the hubs and the high school students are the spokes. And the amazing part about this model for a social network is there are network effects built in. So for something li…”