David Liu
15 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2018 by David Liu · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Mar 12, 2018 positive
Liu: Smithsonian CD-ROM was OEM bundled with early Apple iMacs
“This publisher managed to get the CD-ROM OEM bundled with every one of the early iMacs. So if you bought the one of those iMacs, you got our disc, and as a result, you know, we got maybe a, I think it was like a dollar per disc that was actually distributed, s…”
Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 positive
Liu: The Knot never conducted formal layoffs during dot-com crash
“We never had layoffs. We always, we were able to downsize through attrition. But we never formally had to lay people off, in part because we were always running relatively lean and there were people who panicked and basically sort of got out.”
Mar 12, 2018 bullish
Liu: The Knot reached $1B market cap after acquiring WeddingChannel
“I mean, in 2006 and seven, we wound up we bought Wedding Channel. There was unbelievable sort of frothy expectations on what that acquisition was going to net us, and the stock hits 32 dollars. We have a billion dollar market cap, and, you know, then precipita…”
Mar 12, 2018 positive
Liu: The Knot grew 5% during 2008 recession while media dropped 20%
“Our stock actually held up relatively well. I think, you know, most media companies were down 20%. We grew five percent. You know, we actually grew that year because a lot of the marketers realized that the only people who were going to continue to spend money…”
Oct 7, 2019 neutral
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Oct 7, 2019 positive
Liu: Smithsonian CD-ROM bundled with early iMacs yielded $1 per disc
“This publisher managed to get the CD-ROM OEM bundled with every one of the early iMacs. So if you bought the one of those iMacs, you got our disc, and as a result, you know, we got maybe a, I think it was like a dollar per disc that was actually distributed, s…”
Oct 7, 2019
The Knot founders posed as users to spark early AOL chat engagement
“We had aliases. Like, mine was Anya, and I would sit in this chat room waiting for people to show up, and most people tend to just lurk. They wanted to hear and want, read other people's conversations, and you had to try to figure out a way to get people engag…”