Good Talk

“The cost to scale this kind of company, I think, has gone up an order of magnitude than what it used to.”

“Every time I've gotten excited about a platform that's fundamentally about conversations, whether it was Whale, AMA on Reddit, Quora, it breaks somehow. Either the conversations become so long-tailed and esoteric that they can't build an audience, or the monet…”

“So we're the first company since Instagram or Snap to create product market fit with that segment of users.”

“We're an SMS first product, although 90% of the users do eventually download the app, but we just believe you have to show them the value before you get them to download an app.”

“The next time Brad Feld goes live, you're going to get a text, and you're going to open that at a rate of 51%.”

“And it led me to the conclusion that the thing that makes Twitter successful is the very thing that makes it awful.”

“We have decided to take a very different direction and we're actually shutting down Good Talk as a consumer destination.”

“Since we launched our beta five months ago, we've had over 500 high profile people like that broadcasting to over twenty million followers.”

“This is antithetical to those platforms. On those platforms, and you even hear these CEOs when they talk about, like, Jack Dorsey talks about the power of Twitter, it's that every user can participate in every conversation. And so you can't solve a problem tha…”