Twitter

5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 24, 2020 by Reid Hoffman · across every show →

Everything said about Twitter, oldest first

Nov 24, 2020 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Hoffman: Twitter had 500,000 monthly users in 2008
“Bear in mind, this is 2008, back when Twitter had a relatively cozy community of 500,000 monthly users.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 24, 2020 ▶ 4:32 Learn from every "no" (with Walker & Company's Tristan Walker)
Jul 28, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Systrom: Instagram seeded launch with 100 designer influencers cross-posting
“So we went out and we got all these influencers who were photographers and designers to sign up, and I think we had a hundred people sign up. And the day we launched, they started posting all their photos to Twitter and to Facebook, and we figured out the vira…”
Kevin Systrom Jul 28, 2023 ▶ 20:36 Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom: Keep it simple while scaling big | Masters of Scale
Oct 20, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Cohen: Hamas posted October 7 attack footage on Twitter and LinkedIn
“Hamas videoed all of this and posted it in social media. So it was everywhere. It was on Twitter. It was on LinkedIn.”
Maayan Cohen Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 7:11 On the ground in Israel (with Hello Heart’s Maayan Cohen) | Masters of Scale
Jul 18, 2024 neutral
Insight
Maples: Winning products rarely match the initial pitch, including Twitter and Lyft
“Time and again, the product that ends up winning is not the product that you see when you're doing a seed investment. Yeah, that was true of Twitter. It was true of Twitch. It was true of Lyft. It was broadly true of Okta, although not quite as true. It was tr…”
Mike Maples, Jr. Jul 18, 2024 ▶ 25:13 Mike Maples, Jr. & Reid Hoffman: Advice from two of the world's top investors | Masters of Scale
Jul 18, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Hoffman: Reid Hoffman missed early Twitter investment after passing on Odeo
“Which is also one of the reasons I missed the early investment, because I didn't invest in Odeo, but by the time they were going with Twitter, it was already gone. And I missed it.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 18, 2024 ▶ 1:10:17 Mike Maples, Jr. & Reid Hoffman: Advice from two of the world's top investors | Masters of Scale
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