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Currier: Consumer software window closed in 2014, producing only ten unicorns
“Between 94 and 2013, it was a fantastic time to start companies in the consumer software space and invest in them from seed or series A. In 2014, the window just closed. You can look at the number of unicorns created in two th from 2014 to today, and it's real…”
Shaan Puri: Facebook talent was far superior to Twitch, YouTube, and Discord
“The difference of talent quality between we interviewed with we talked to YouTube, we talked to Twitch, where we ended up going to Facebook, to discord, to a bunch of other players. And Facebook was so much more, so much better, so much more impressive.”
Wilkinson: Target unsaturated ecosystems like Discord over Shopify
“Now I think Shopify is hard because you're late, you know, the marketplace already exists. It takes a lot of time to get approved. You know, that might not be the place to go where you might want to look is like discord or add a par or any kind of software eco…”
Live streamers and active Discord hosts convert better than passive influencers
“So we found out like the affiliates or the influences that are really like they have a discord channel or they, yeah, they have a, you know, they're constantly live streaming. Those people make the most money.”
Bebo received acquisition offers from Twitch, Facebook, and Discord
“I think at the end we ended up with three offers. We had a Facebook offer. We had the Twitch offer and we had a not papered, but like only because we turned it down early, but he was interested, the, a discord offer.”
Puri: Multi-billion dollar businesses are platforms for communities, not single communities
“I don't think communities are great big businesses. Community of communities of communities can be great big businesses. Discord is a community of communities. Reddit is a community of communities. And both of those are like 10 billion-ish sized companies.”
Parr: Overemployed Discord community has 60,000 members
“The community is partially free, partially paid. It costs 300 dollars a year. I'm not sure how, what percentage of people paid 300 dollars, but it's a discord community. He has 60,000 members. On his discord of people who are following the overemployed, like l…”
Puri: Nikita Bier's Gas made $7M to $8M gross revenue in six months
“I think in basically, like, a six-month span, it made, like, seven or eight million dollars in, you know, gross revenue with, like, you know and, you know, it was very profitable for him in that period of time, then he sold the thing”