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Herold: Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein does not manage finance or engineering
“And I interviewed another COO recently, Harley Finkelstein from Shopify and Harley doesn't run finance at all. He doesn't run engineering. That's under Tobias, but Harley's very sales and marketing and culture and operations and biz dev.”
Yang: Facebook Messenger bans promotional messages outside 24-hour window
“After 24 hours you can only send content that people subscribe to, And that cannot be, like, promotional or ads”
Yang: Facebook has 65M business Pages adaptable into bots
“It's 1.2 billion people every month using the messenger platform. They have over sixty five million businesses using pages and each page is a potential is a one click away from becoming a bot.”
Yang: Intercom has 17,000 customers while ManyChat has 20,000 connected bots
“Inter, Intercom has, like, 17,000 customers, and we already have over 20,000 bots connected to the platform.”
Houston: Dropbox reached 200 million published users by late 2013
“Last number we published was two hundred million.”
Allis: iContact Reached $47M+ Annual Revenue and 70k Customers
“We started the business in 2003, and you're right, we did everything we could to keep expenses low, sleeping on futons, eating lots of rum and noodles as we built up eye contact over the years to 70,000 customers, a little over forty seven million in annual re…”
Allis: iContact raised a total of $53M over five years
“Not only provided, you know, 500,005, which you raised a total of fifty three million dollars over the last five years at eye contact not only provided money, but actually provided, you know, strategic advice”
Huffman: Reddit reached nine million unique visitors last month
“I can only speak for Reddit's numbers, and that, they got nine million uniques last month.”
Gebbia: Airbnb originally required all listings to attach to specific conferences
“At the time, we were just housing for conferences. You had to list a room to an event. When the event was over, the listing went away.”
Yang: Facebook drove high F8 engagement using Messenger parametric codes for swag
“What Facebook did is they put up this parametric code that said, like, Hey, if you want free swag, just scan this code, and you're gonna we're gonna send you a message of what you've got, and it can be a t-shirt, socks, or something else, and everyone was like…”
Allis grew iContact to $1M in sales shortly after turning 21
“I remember we chatted last time about a goal I set when I was 16 to build a company to a million dollars in sales by the time I turned 21. And I told you I missed that goal by 18 days. But you know what? I was 21 years old in 18 days, and eye contact got to on…”