Instagram

includes Instagram Reels, Instagram API, Instagram Ads

13 statements across 7 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2024 by Jeremy Liu · said 125 times in 37 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Pablo Srugo (38), Ian MacKinnon (18), Ryan Anderson (8), Roy Lee (7), Maju Kuruvi (7), Matt Espinoza (6), Steven Galanis (5), Hussein Fazal (4)

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2024 54 mentions in 14 episodes 4 per episode
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Everything said about Instagram, oldest first

Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Liew: Reddit is the only major social platform that started male-dominated
“If you think about a lot of, it's not just Snap, Instagram, Facebook, MySpace, they all started with the young female users. Pinterest, maybe older female users. I think Reddit's really the only big social media example that started with a primarily male audie…”
Jeremy Liu Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 36:46 5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jer... · PMF Show
Nov 12, 2024
Insight
The selfie replaced the autograph for shareable social proof
“The selfie is the new autograph. When you see someone famous today, you pull out your phone and you want something to go on your, you know, your Instagram you know, your Instagram grid or your Facebook wall. Like that's what you wanted. Back in the day when yo…”
Steven Galanis Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 8:01 His startup Cameo was a unicorn—until it crashed 90%. Here's how he went from near-bankrupt to pr... · PMF Show
Nov 12, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Lightspeed pitched Cameo as an uncopyable, bigger Snapchat
“Jeremy Liu, who wrote the first check, walked in with Nicole Quinn, the partner that would join our board from Lightspeed. And you said, Hey, Steven, it's unanimous. You know, the Lightspeed partnership wants to help build Cameo. We're gonna offer you a term s…”
Steven Galanis Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 31:47 His startup Cameo was a unicorn—until it crashed 90%. Here's how he went from near-bankrupt to pr... · PMF Show
Nov 12, 2024 positive
Insight
Gift recipients sharing watermarked videos drove Cameo's organic growth
“When someone bought, we learned right away, they're almost all gifts. So I buy for you. Then you share on your Facebook, you shared on your Instagram, you shared on Twitter in a group chat. And then those people saw the cameo watermark. They're like, what the …”
Steven Galanis Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 20:47 His startup Cameo was a unicorn—until it crashed 90%. Here's how he went from near-bankrupt to pr... · PMF Show
Nov 25, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Later's top early support ticket was auto-posting despite onboarding warnings
“In our onboarding, there were three touch points where we made it clear that this doesn't post automatically. You know, the key use point is schedule on the web. We'll get it to your phone just in time. Three points in onboarding, and still that was our bigges…”
Ian MacKinnon Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 13:42 He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Jan 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Founders of PayPal, Stripe, and Instagram backed Gusto's $6M seed round
“It was 20 founders, CEOs that You know, did that seed round. It was the founders of PayPal and Instagram and Mint and Eventbrite and Stripe and Nest and a whole bunch of really incredible businesses Box and Dropbox.”
Josh Reeves Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 29:10 How Gusto’s $10B founder raised $6M, built a team of 5—& hit $5M ARR in just 2 years. | Josh Reev... · PMF Show
Aug 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy Lee: Cluely averages 80 million monthly views on Instagram and TikTok
“I think we're averaging somewhere around eighty million views a month on there.”
Roy Lee Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 38:47 He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
Nov 13, 2025 positive
Insight
Espinoza: Posting 1,000 regular social videos guarantees one million views
“Each video on Instagram or TikTok averages about a thousand views, everything, you know, regular, regular account. So the math is you do a thousand videos On a thousand, it has a thousand views, and you will guarantee a million.”
Matt Espinoza Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 7:15 At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
Nov 13, 2025
Insight
Espinoza: New social accounts must warm up feed algorithms before posting
“Let's say you open up a brand new account, you post it, that's also useless, because it's not target audience posting. And so the ideal play, let's say you had a fitness app, is you want to create a new account, watch all the fitness YouTubers, follow all the …”
Matt Espinoza Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 9:27 At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
Nov 13, 2025
Insight
Espinoza: Social accounts face diminishing returns past three daily video posts
“Per account, you can do about three videos. Three videos per day, I should say. And so anything above that, we notice there's diminishing returns. Anything below that, you're not doing enough.”
Matt Espinoza Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 8:22 At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
Nov 13, 2025
Assertion Supported
Espinoza: TikTok and Instagram flag and suppress identical duplicate video uploads
“If you post the same video twice on TikTok or Instagram, it doesn't matter if it's a brand new account, a new account, or influencer account, they will flag that video as already being posted.”
Matt Espinoza Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 8:51 At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
Dec 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mashrabov: AI face filters meaningfully grew Snap's daily active users
“So we enabled these net new capabilities, and Bydance and Instagram, they didn't have those. So it contributed meaningfully to Snap daily active users' growth.”
Alex Mashrabov Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 2:57 He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Found... · PMF Show
Dec 4, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Mashrabov: US TikTok users average 90 minutes daily vs 47 on Instagram
“TikTok three years forward is the largest social media in the United States, and on average users spend 90 minutes in TikTok, while on Instagram, I think it's 47, and Snapchat around 29.”
Alex Mashrabov Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 11:38 He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Found... · PMF Show
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