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Puri: Investors judge multi-company CEOs purely through outcome-based resulting bias
“It's like Elon can run Tesla and SpaceX and everyone's like, wow, he's amazing. And those businesses are amazing. And then Jack does the same thing with Twitter and square. And if Twitter's misses its earnings, it's like off with his head. How dare he, you kno…”
Shaan Puri: Trying Hard To Signal Status Proves You Lack It
“On one side, you have a baller trying to act like trying to counter signal that he's a regular guy. And on the other side, you have a regular guy trying to signal that he's a baller. And you know, this is the paradox of Twitter. The harder you try, the more yo…”
Shaan Puri: BitClout preloaded profiles for the top 15,000 Twitter influencers
“For the top 15,000 influencers on Twitter, it's preloaded into the platform.”
Parr: Broadcast news appearances are prestigious but less impactful than tweets
“So, like, it's, I, it's prestigious, but it's definitely not nearly as impactful as just the actual tweet that you're coming on to talk about it was.”
Polyvore outpaced Pinterest and Twitter in social commerce traffic
“We have about twenty million visitors per month. Ah, we're the second largest driver of social commerce traffic on the web. Ah, so first is, ah, Facebook, then Polyvore, then Pinterest, and then Twitter.”
Puri: Iron Mountain is worth $30B, surpassing Snap and Pinterest
“This giant filing cabinet is worth more than Snapchat. It's worth more than Pinterest. It's worth more than Twitter as a company. Isn't that crazy? The thirty billion dollar company.”
Puri: Being consistent and niche-focused would have yielded one million Twitter followers
“I think if I had been more consistent and I had defined my niche, I would be at a million followers instead of 400,000.”
Shaan Puri: Clubhouse Breakdown Thread Reached 20 Million Readers
“The reason this thread got like, twenty million people to read it, was because I told, I wrote almost like a screenplay.”
Puri: Harvard generates more annual revenue than Twitter and Snapchat
“The school earns more revenue than both Twitter and Snapchat. Twitter's at five billion, Snapchat's 4.6 billion. Harvard has more revenue than both of them.”
Rose: Selling Digg secondary shares funded early Twitter and Facebook checks
“I sold a little bit of my dig stock enough to give me the ammo to go and do small C checks, you know, and put, you know, 25 K into, you know, Twitter's seed round and put, you know, 25 K and, or it was more into Facebook, but they're a little bit later stage.”
Puri: Ready to invest in Twitter prankster's startup at any valuation
“I am ready to invest in his things as like stealth startups. I'm like, I'm ready to invest in whatever he's doing. Any valuation.”
Puri: Grew personal Twitter from 20K to 300K followers in 18 months
“I grew my personal Twitter from like 10 or 20,000 followers to It's at 300,000 in like a year, basically, a year and a half. In a year, we got to 200,000, then it just trickled up.”
Puri: Viral metaverse thread was an unedited 25-minute throwaway post
“I got 25 minutes to kill and I just watched this thing and I just tweeted it out. And I like, to me, it was like a throwaway thing. It wasn't like a planned, Drafted, edited thing.”
Shapiro: Pinned tweets should reinforce bio and prove creator qualifications
“Your pin tweet can reinforce what your bio said to further qualify why you talk about that. Why you should talk about it rather. And it gives an example of it. So they get the quick dopamine hit off the bat that your pin tweet is delivering on.”
Puri: Elevator manufacturer Otis is worth nearly as much as Twitter
“Basically, Otis, the elevator companies, worth almost as much as Twitter.”
Shaan Puri: BitClout raised $150M to pre-fund top Twitter accounts
“They took the top 10,000 Twitter accounts and they had raised, I think, a hundred and fifty million dollars from VCs here in Silicon Valley. And they used it to basically pre-buy and invest in all those accounts.”
Jack Butcher sold an NFT of his own tweet for roughly $150,000
“Last, last week, what he did was he wrote he did an NFT and it says, here's the difference between a J, a JPEG and an NFT. And it just had a verified, it, he basically made a tweet And then he sold that tweet for like, a 150,000 dollars.”
Sam Parr earned $1,000 from his recent X creator payout
“For example, I, for some reason, my Twitter was a thousand dollars last payment, and, ah, like the month before, it was like 600 dollars, and I was like, man, this is crazy, I just got paid 600 dollars for tweeting, which is insane.”
Wilkinson uses a one-way Twitter app to post without seeing engagement
“So like with Twitter, I have a one-way Twitter client that I'm using, so I don't actually see the results of my tweets, right? Although in this case, I'll admit I did I did go and look, but my goal is actually fully screen time on every device so I can't acces…”