Snapchat

“In hindsight, not only did Google bet on the wrong thing, it missed much easier opportunities. So just not far from Google's headquarters, there was WhatsApp. Not very famous in the US, but they actually created massive impact. Hundreds of millions of people w…”

“TBH grew through variety of things, people sharing their messages to Snapchat and text invites. And that was 2017. And the way you invited your friends on TBH was that you tap their name your contact name and there was a button that said invite. And then we us…”

“It's like people download apps to make or save money. Examples of that might be like, you know, WhatsApp where, you know, free texting. And then the other reason is to find a mate. So maybe like Tinder or Snapchat, find love. And the third is to unplug from re…”

“Like what Snapchat has done And I think Apple to the same extent is that designers run the show. And I think that's led to some very novel products coming out from both of those companies.”

“I looked on the app store and the number one app In the United States was an app called Saraha. And it was for sending anonymous messages by adding a link to your Snapchat story. But the thing that was most interesting was the entire app was in Arabic. The num…”

“Snapchat opens to the camera. And that was actually the differentiator, right? That was actually that small decision was holding the entire company against all competition. Because when the moment passes where your friend is doing something funny, and you need…”

“That product market fit can be so strong sometimes that it can be hard to actually build something because you actually can't tell if what you're building is what's responsible for growing the thing or if it's actually hurting it and, you know, this is growing…”

“Snapchat at the time didn't allow you to upload photos. It was like, you have to use a snap camera.”

“We've, I think we've got two hundred million people playing games every month on Snapchat now.”

“For the two-year-old it's like zero screen time. We really just, you know, wanna, you know, essentially read with him and play you know, explore outside and those sorts of things, but not really focus on, on screens unless he is getting a haircut because he re…”

“Even though Apple didn't provide an API at the time to let you know that a screenshot had been taken, ah, there was a way for us to essentially detect this touch event to learn that a screenshot, ah, had happened. And then we would just send a notification bac…”

“And what Snapchat figured out that was, I think, different was that, you know, despite the fact that there were much bigger networks that connected more people, what really mattered was connecting you to the right people. And so if you could just connect someo…”