Chess.com, every mention
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How Chess.com Became the World’s Biggest Chess Community with CEO Erik Allebest
- ▶ 1:08 Sarah Guo Today, I'm here with Eric Alibest, who bought the chess.com domain out of bankruptcy auction in 2005 for 55 grand, when almost every investor told him it was an uninvestable niche passion project. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Sarah Guo So I'd love to just make sure our listeners have a little bit of the backstory of, um, chess.com and how you built this business, but, uh, could you paint a little bit of a picture of just 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 Erik Allebest I'm like, if two hundred and fifty million people have said they want to play chess at some point on chess.com, like, why don't we have fifty million daily active users?
- ▶ 6:57 Sarah Guo The desire to, like, be the dominant player in a market, the way chess.com is, right, is, um, I think, a common driver. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:13 Sarah Guo You, um, have this incredible data set with chess.com of humans, like, learning millions of people at every rating, making mistakes, and improving.
- ▶ 28:45 Sarah Guo Like, how do you guys think about cheating at chess.com? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Sarah Guo Do you think of like, when you look forward, do you think of chess.com as like a game company or an education company or a social network, or, you know, you have like creators and influencers, like a media company.
- ▶ 40:03 Sarah Guo What are you investing in at chess.com from an AI perspective? 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
- ▶ 20:57 Mati Staniszewski One is, uh, we recently worked with chess.com.