Trinh: Building consumer social means surviving the idea maze through continuous experimentation
Danny Trinh · How to Leverage Nostalgia and Win at Marketing with Danny Trinh · Apr 14, 2022 · at 14:16
Danny Trinh, designer at Snap and veteran consumer social builder, discusses the trial-and-error endurance required to create consumer apps with Greg Isenberg and Sahil Bloom.
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“Anyone that's a consumer social for too long. It's really just about surviving and taking your little idea Legos or whatever you learned and molding them around, but like, yeah, surviving another day and like making something interesting and like surviving the crucible of like that, that idea maze of like, I don't know if this is going to work, but let's try some stuff, you know?”
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