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Pujji: Future e-commerce websites will look like TikTok and Instagram
“The e-comm website hasn't changed in 15 years and we're going to give all the tools to the merchants to make them, it's going to look just like TikTok and Instagram in the future.”
Opinion
Amoruso: Twitter DMs Drive Real Professional Opportunities Unlike Instagram or TikTok
“Opportunities. Like, this don't come through DMs on Instagram. They don't come through TikTok. It's how I met Sam Parr. Like, it's how I've met people who've become really influential in my life. Like, that doesn't happen on Instagram.”
Prediction Held up
Lieberman: Food influencers will evolve into digital restaurants via ghost kitchens
“I think where food influence, so anyone on Instagram, TikTok, et cetera, who is building personality and doing so in the food category, where it is going is I think these people are going to become restaurants in their own right.”
Assertion Supported
How Instagram and WhatsApp Reached Billions With Tiny Teams
“Both were worth billions of dollars with less than 60 full-time employees, 13 employees for Instagram, and 55 employees for WhatsApp.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lieberman: Morning Brew once spent $500,000 monthly on paid ads
“You know, at one point in the business, we were spending 500,000 dollars a month.”
Assertion Supported
Paid digital customer acquisition costs have risen significantly in recent years
“There's also never been more pressure to launch new products as today because the cost to acquire customers through paid marketing, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, Snapchat ads, Has risen significantly over the last several years.”