WhatsApp, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WhatsApp comes up
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 35:07 Anish Acharya I think it's pre Airbnb, pre WhatsApp, pre Uber, pre all the important kind of consumer companies.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:14:43 Lenny Rachitsky It's like a WhatsApp but not.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:06:26 Marc Andreessen You know, with Ethereum right behind it, um, you know, which wasn't quite one person, but, you know, a very small team, you know, you had, you know, kind of Instagram and WhatsApp that had very big outcomes with very small teams.
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 21:49 Stewart Butterfield There is another one which we, you know, we really puzzled about in the very early days where people have a long history of using messaging apps from, like, AOL Instant Messenger to SMS to, um, WhatsApp, where their expectation is they get…
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 37:29 Asha Sharma Um, the number one learning that I had was look like WhatsApp didn't win because it had 3 times in the scene
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 1:05:55 Nick Turley Um, I, I take inspiration from WhatsApp where like, you know, it was a very small team running a very global scope product.
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 1:02:26 Lenny Rachitsky Speaking of community, was that all in WhatsApp? 4 times in the scene
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 1:24:53 Mayur Kamat WhatsApp voice calling, video calling, like every Zoom, everything runs on WebRTC.
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 1:10 Kevin Weil It was integration into WhatsApp and Messenger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:59 Kevin Weil Uh, we can talk on WhatsApp and, you know, be texting each other.
- ▶ 1:19:13 Kevin Weil Here we are with, like, three billion people using WhatsApp all over the world, talking to each other every day, especially friends and family, exactly the kind of people who'd send money to each other. 5 times in the scene
Simplify To Win | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 3:16 Ami Vora And I'll talk about the lessons I've learned from working on a really simple product, WhatsApp, which is the largest messaging app in the world.
- ▶ 3:26 Ami Vora Now, when I joined WhatsApp, I had so many ideas for what I wanted to build. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:45 Ami Vora If Android put a floating action button down in the bottom right, that's where WhatsApp would put its button too.
- ▶ 9:51 Ami Vora So for WhatsApp, it was a user saying, WhatsApp isn't really an app, it's a part of my R. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 Ami Vora Well, for WhatsApp, it meant the app kept growing across the globe. 4 times in the scene
A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
- ▶ 35:45 Kevin Weil You know, right now, you mostly type to these things, and, you know, I mostly type to a lot of my friends on WhatsApp and other things, but I also speak.
Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit
- ▶ 1:01:55 Naomi Gleit So obviously Adam is the, the head of Instagram and I work closely with him on this, like I was referring to yesterday, but this is something like these teen accounts is something that we are thinking about how we expand to the other apps…
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 2:54 Rory Sutherland It allows you to do obviously WhatsApp or Facebook or indeed Zoom on your television with a fantastic, you know, face tracking camera.
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
- ▶ 1:28 Lenny Rachitsky And most recently, she led product and design for the largest messaging app in the world, WhatsApp.
- ▶ 32:00 Lenny Rachitsky Is there an example that comes to mind where you did this really well, say at WhatsApp or Facebook, kind of the story that carried a lot of water for you and the team? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:11 Lenny Rachitsky Is there an example that you could share to make this even more concrete from say WhatsApp or Facebook or Instagram or anything like that, where you can share some of these goals that you've like, oh, this worked out really well.
- ▶ 1:12:51 Lenny Rachitsky And then you ended up, uh, leading Facebook ads and then WhatsApp and many other things.
Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine
- ▶ 19:40 Uri Levine From searching Google, using Waze, WhatsApp, Facebook, Netflix, Uber, whatever it is, and ask yourself, what is the difference between any of those today?
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 1:06:40 Jag Duggal Mechanics around your financial life, not in general, not another WhatsApp, not another Twitter and self-driving automation.
Failure
- ▶ 13:39 Paul Adams And like, I kind of look back now and go like WhatsApp, you know, or like, it may be like iMessage if everyone's on Apple, but like really obvious in hindsight, but at the time not obvious.
Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor)
- ▶ 21:06 Maggie Crowley You could probably use WhatsApp or a literal group text.
What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- ▶ 10:18 Paul Adams And like, I kind of look back now and go like WhatsApp, you know, or like, it may be like iMessage if everyone's on Apple, but like really obvious in hindsight, but at the time not obvious.
- ▶ 25:35 Paul Adams And then came along conversational customer support, which is just basic messaging, like, like WhatsApp or iMessage, like I mentioned earlier.
Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- ▶ 1:16:08 Lenny Rachitsky Yeah, that makes me think about WhatsApp, and one of the reasons they made it is they were just obsessed with making the app incredibly small and fast, and they started, I think, with international markets, and then that just ended up… 5 times in the scene
Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
- ▶ 6:40 Itamar Gilad So just not far from Google's headquarters, there was WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:24 Itamar Gilad For example, let's take WhatsApp WhatsApp for very long time measured messages sent because every message sent is a little increment of value for the sender.
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 0:50 Lenny Rachitsky Before this, he was recruited personally by Mark Zuckerberg to help grow Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- ▶ 49:03 Nikhyl Singhal So we did a WhatsApp channel and we brought a zoom call and this was during the pandemic.
Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- ▶ 45:10 Jonathan Becker Instagram and probably eventually WhatsApp, which I think will probably launch ads later this year.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 40:46 Casey Winters So when someone joins WhatsApp, other people can talk to them that they, that wouldn't be able to talk to them before. 3 times in the scene
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 30:41 Sriram Krishnan Like just take some of your favorite people, you know, stick them in a WhatsApp group or a telegram group or a Slack channel, which by the way, Lenny Slack, highly, highly recommended. 2 times in the scene
Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
- ▶ 57:05 Matt Mochary And that's what WhatsApp did.
Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- ▶ 14:06 Pete Kazanjy And then three, it's going to make it such that you can package that up such that other human, cause like, that's the way that B to B startup scale is like, it's not like WhatsApp or, or like, you know, Twitter or like, uh, Airbnb or…
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO, the New York Times)
- ▶ 8:04 Alex Hardiman That was really trying to help micro sellers in markets like India and other parts of APAC who were coming online for the first time in really low bandwidth areas and just wanted to sell their goods through social commerce, really looking…
How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- ▶ 22:40 Matt Mochary And that's what WhatsApp did.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 14:20 Crystal Widjaja Why don't we just add them to a WhatsApp group? 2 times in the scene
How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
- ▶ 22:29 Casey Winters The company that I feel like has always done the best job of this is, is WhatsApp where, you know, at its core, it's a chat app and it's really good at being a chat app.