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Jake Chapman: Influencer social apps hook users like drug addicts
“And with certain social businesses, I don't like that the premise is really all based on We're going to trigger, like, a little dopamine high in all of these people and keep them coming back. It makes them, like, drug addicts, and, like, it literally is a dopa…”
Phil Nadel claims he would not invest in a pre-revenue Facebook
“If a pre-revenue Facebook deal presented itself to me, I don't think I would invest because I don't invest in pre-revenue companies, and I don't know that I would be omniscient enough to know that this new, this Facebook, this company will be able to successfu…”
Peltier: Shimmur received five- and six-figure brand deal offers
“And we've already had some offers for, you know, five, six-figure brand deals through major agencies to come through the product and advertise products or work on campaigns.”
Peltier: Shimmur reached 166K users with zero paid marketing
“We just passed, I think yesterday, a 166,000 users. We've done no paid marketing or promotions. It's all been, you know, organic influencers coming to our product.”
Peltier: Shimmur inverts social media by having communities create content for influencers
“Right now the way it works is it flips kind of the way social media works, so rather than influencers creating content and fans reacting, the community creates the content, they up and down vote the good and bad content, and the influencer is able to interact.”
Peltier: Shimmur active users grew to 230,000 post-pitch
“Yeah, I think we're at about a 160,000 active users.
[1967] Matthew Peltier: since then we've grown to about 230,000.”
Muccio: Shimmur closed seed round with VC investors post-pitch
“In the months following our call, he was able to close out his round with VC investors.”