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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…”
Connor Price: TikTok suppresses comments mentioning Spotify or link in bio
“TikTok at this point, too, even, if you try to write the word link in bio or even Spotify, they'll hide the comment. And we've tested this. I've written that, I've posted that comment under my own video, logged into a different account to go there, and the com…”
Shaan Puri: Savannah Bananas has more social followers than all MLB teams combined
“They have more followers on TikTok and social media that follow their brand, their team. Then every single professional baseball team, including the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Dodgers combined, all MLB teams combined.”
Shaan Puri predicts Kevin Systrom's news app Artifact will fail
“I don't think people want to read a bunch of news in the same way that they're willing to like swipe through mindless videos for entertainment. And so I think that's where Has this problem that a lot of Silicon Valley ideas have, which is they try to sell you …”
Isenberg: TikTok is currently promoting slideshow content
“And the cool thing is that TikTok is promoting slideshows right now.”
Bonforte: Grindr was a rare retroactive CFIUS divestiture of a foreign buyer
“And this was one of the only cases ever where CFIUS had actually retroactively unwound a deal. CFIUS had denied deals with foreign buyers, but they had never, what they're trying to do with TikTok today over the years is TikTok would be the second one after Gr…”
MrBallen reached 7 million TikTok followers by posting three times daily
“And so I went into this feverish, like constantly telling stories on TikTok three a day for 30 days, and then was up to like seven million subscribers on TikTok and then shifted to YouTube and.”
Sanchez: 'Trad Wife' content accumulated 187 million TikTok views
“So I looked up the TikTok views for this search of Trad Wife, a hundred and eighty-seven million, which was wild”
ByteDance spent $1 billion marketing the TikTok app to teenagers
“They literally spent a billion dollars marketing that app to make sure every teenager has it installed on their phone.”
Ad platforms ban zero-nicotine herbal cigarettes like Oklahoma Smokes
“You can't advertise for this on Facebook or, like, pretty much any ad network, because they don't want you advertising cigarettes, even though this is, like, a nicotine-free, tobacco-free, and he's like, so it's all just organic, like TikTok, basically people …”
French: Pacific Bin Pre-Sold Year One Bookings in Two Weeks
“And he grew 1.5 million followers from scratch. Look it up. It's called the Pacific Ben. That's B I N. It took him a year to build this thing. And when he launched, he had so many emails that when he opened up the calendar, he pre-sold the first year in like t…”
Parr: Mohawk Chevrolet's TikTok series gained millions of views and brand engagement
“So people, so I think they've got millions and millions of views. And the young woman who did it is, like I said, 23 and Chevy and Geico and all these huge brands are commenting and making jokes on the TikToks.”
Puri: Peachy Babies Generates Tens of Millions Selling Slime Online
“Tens of millions of dollars worth of slime gets sold from these guys. They got like, if you go to their Tik Tok, they have ten million followers on Tik Tok.”