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Handy: Social media pricing backlash did not cause mass dbt cancellations
“Our business as a result has not really had a hiccup. But if you only existed on Twitter or LinkedIn you would think that you know, our customers desired us on mass and we're every single one of them was livid and canceled, but that just like didn't happen.”
Horowitz: a16z employees who publicly trash startups on Twitter are fired
“One of the things I tell everybody at New Employee Orientation is if you get on Twitter, like some VCs, and start shitting all over somebody's company, you know, saying, oh, they'll never make any money, that's a dumb idea, I can't believe they called it bodeg…”
Twitter and LinkedIn's open-source data catalogs go unused without governance
“Reason why I say that is because I've talked to all the high-tech companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, et cetera, and they all have their catalog projects. Many of them have actually open sourced catalog initiatives, But then you find that nobody's actually using…”
Duderstadt: Nomic's enterprise sales funnel is literally Twitter, Discord, then sales
“Our sales funnel is literally like Twitter to discord to enterprise sale.”
Taylor: Data science and AI startups should prioritize LinkedIn over Twitter
“Twitter might get you more impressions, I think. And you might get your message out wider. So I don't think it has to be an either or, but if I was going to spend a lot of my time, especially if I was a data science or AI startup, I would learn where my audien…”
Johnson: Twitter holds an incredibly valuable but underutilized dataset
“I think Twitter is a great example where it's not that they're not doing nothing, they're not doing, they're doing some things with the data, it's just they could do a lot more. I think it's one of the most valuable data sets on the planet, but one would think…”
Twitter's Magic Pony acquisition marked the peak of AI talent premiums
“But I think that's, you know, that was the sort of tailing off of the, for me, the Twitter Magic Pony deal was kind of the, ah, the tail end of this absurd, extraordinary premium on, on deep learning, and then now, more and more, it's becoming just part of the…”
Le-Quoc: Vast majority of industry still struggles with data visualization
“Not the sort of advanced customer of ours, you know, say, you know, Airbnb or Twitter or, Spotify, but the vast majority of the industry is, is still kind of struggling with that.”
Kleiner Perkins' largest investment check ever was into Twitter
“The largest check that the KP's ever written was in the Twitter.”
Wilson: Three core differences define Twitter versus Facebook
“I think the important ones are default public versus default private follower versus friending. One-way follow model versus a two-way following model. And open fire hose versus closed fire hose. I think those three things tell you everything you need to know a…”
Chris Moody: Twitter is the fastest breaking news source outside Bloomberg
“Twitter has become kind of the quickest way to find out about, ah, breaking news outside of Bloomberg.”
Moody: Twitter is ideal for PR crisis management due to reaction speed
“Something like Twitter is great for that, right? Because, again, it's super quick reaction time, and I don't need to know a lot of details.”
Stent: SEC declared Twitter valid for official corporate disclosures
“SEC has declared that Twitter, in particular, can be used to provide company, official company announcements.”
Foursquare processes one billion daily API calls to power Twitter location
“Twitter runs on our hosted platform, which does about a billion API calls a day, and if anyone in the world wants to tag a tweet with the location where they are standing, that uses all of our machine learning to understand where the phone is and tag the tweet…”
Fenton invested in Twitter when it had only 25 employees
“You invested when the company was only 25 people strong.”
Neustar maintained data partnerships with Facebook and Twitter for predictive analytics
“We have a partnership with Facebook. We have a partnership with Twitter also. We use their data, ah, to be able to run our analysis as such.”
Knaup: Apache Mesos scales to tens of thousands of nodes and powers Twitter
“And so today, it scales to tens of thousands of nodes. It actually runs, it's the basis for most of Twitter's production infrastructure today.”
Knaup: Mesosphere, Twitter, and Airbnb are major committers to Apache Mesos
“It's a top-level Apache project. And, you know, Mesosphere, Twitter, and Airbnb are major committers on the project.”
Tan: Sift Science has 25 employees and 175 customers including Twitter and Uber
“We have 25 people out in San Francisco just closed our Series B recently, and we have about a 175 customers around the world, including Twitter, Square, Match.com, OpenTable, Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter and others.”
Lotan: TweetDeck was built at Betaworks and sold to Twitter
“TweetDeck was actually built at Betaworks and then sold to Twitter.”