Kik

0 statements across 0 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2025 by Chris Best · said 6 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie May 12, 2025 · 6 mentions · from 48:32
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May 12, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Best: Kik launched a cryptocurrency to solve free messenger monetization

“In part to raise money, and in part kind of like as a, in answer to the question, what do you do if you have a very popular messenger that lots of people use, but you don't know how to make money from it?”

Chris Best May 12, 2025 ▶ 12:16 Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie

May 12, 2025

Assertion Partly supported

Best: Kik Messenger was used by 40% of US teenagers

“I mean, at one point, there was, I think, 40% of U.S. Teenagers were using Keck for a few years.”

Chris Best May 12, 2025 ▶ 8:42 Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie

May 12, 2025

Insight

Best: Losing half a cross-platform messaging network destroys 95% of users

“And if you're a messaging app, and your big drive is your half on Blackberry and half on iPhone, if you lose half your users, you don't actually lose half your users, you lose like, 95% of your users.”

Chris Best May 12, 2025 ▶ 10:17 Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie

May 12, 2025 negative

Opinion

McKenzie: Tesla had a messy, cut-throat, throw-under-the-bus culture

“It's totally different from Tesla, which was messy and cut-throat and had to, like, throw everyone under the bus kind of culture.”

Hamish McKenzie May 12, 2025 ▶ 21:57 Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie

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