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Opinion
Bloom: Twitter's Ad Stack Underperforms Rivals in Direct Response
“Their ad stack sucks. They serve up really bad ads. There's no signal, really bad conversion. Like it's just a bad ad stack. And so when advertisers are comparing it to like Snapchat, Instagram, you know, TikTok, all the other places they can advertise, it's n…”
Sahil Bloom May 3, 2022 ▶ 54:58 Elon's Twitter Takeover and The Future of Social Media with Sriram Krishnan
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Isenberg: Snapchat PMs Are Product Designers Because Evan Spiegel Is a Designer
“I think Snapchat has a similar model where their PMs are product designers. And that's because Evan Spiegel from Snapchat, he is a designer.”
Greg Isenberg May 4, 2023 ▶ 37:29 The Ultimate Guide to Building Million Dollar Agencies
What-if
Ohno: NBC should have hired creators over investing in Snapchat
“And I thought it was like, well, why would they just give the money to a public company versus going directly to the creators themselves? The top, top 50 creators in the world, right? Speak different languages and saying, we're going to give you all access rig…”
Apolo Ohno Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 29:44 Buying the X Games with Olympic Icon Apolo Ohno | Where It Happens
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Isenberg: ChatGPT hallucinated that I founded Waxman and invested in Uber
“And the e-commerce platform, quote unquote, Waxman, which was acquired by Groupon. Also not true. He has also been an advisor and investor for numerous startups. Including Uber, WeWork, and Snapchat. That is not true.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 23, 2023 ▶ 14:46 From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
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