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Nirav Tolia predicts AI action platforms will completely replace multi-link search
“Particularly in a world of AI, where most consumers are going to go to one place, ask a question, and everything's going to be taken care of behind the scenes. It's not going to be, You go to Google, you get 15 links, you click on all of them, you hit back, yo…”
Nirav Tolia claims Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon have failed at local
“I also think no one has won local. Google hasn't. Meta hasn't. Apple hasn't. Amazon hasn't, right?”
Tolia: Nextdoor made a mistake delaying small business onboarding
“I think we probably made a mistake not thinking about how to bring small businesses into the conversation from the beginning.”
Founders must build ad platforms sequentially, not acquire users and ads simultaneously
“When you choose an indirect business model and an indirect business model is when you're not asking your primary users to pay you directly, you are making money indirectly through advertising or through some other means. When you're building that kind of busin…”
Nextdoor claims 100 million verified users and 25 million weekly active users
“And today, of our hundred million verified neighbors, twenty-five million use Nextdoor every week.”
Bill Gurley blocked Fanbase's shutdown by handing Nirav Tolia Kipling's 'If'
“And he slides over a piece of paper and says, read this. And I look at it, and it's a poem. Actually, one of my favorite poems. He probably didn't know that, but it's If by Rudyard Kipling. And it was a very powerful way for him to say, I don't think you can g…”
Nextdoor actively disciplines users for discussing national politics on the platform
“We created neighborhood guidelines. You can't discuss national politics. If you do, you can get reprimanded, right? You can get disciplined, right?”
Tolia: 3,500 local publishers produce 50K weekly articles on Nextdoor
“But now with the new Nextdoor, we have 3500 local publishers that are publishing 50,000 articles a week, and they're real journalists.”
Nextdoor co-founder Prakash Janakaraman refused to code without user feedback validation
“Prakash in particular said, as the person writing the majority of the code, he said, I'm sitting on my hands and not writing a line of code until you can prove to me with user feedback that whatever idea we have, is something that's worth building.”
Tolia: Recommendations make up roughly 30% of Nextdoor content
“That's been 30%, roughly, of all the content on Nextdoor since inception.”
Tolia: Pew report found 30% of Americans could not name one neighbor
“When we started Nextdoor, in the Pew report on community in America said, 30% of Americans could not name a single neighbor by name.”