Ed Baker

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2017 by Ed Baker · across every show →

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Jun 23, 2017
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Baker: Facebook Relied on Organic Growth While Uber Scaled Paid Acquisition
“So, Facebook, we didn't really do very much paid acquisition, but at Uber, we had an entire performance marketing team. Well, initially it was a one-person team, but ultimately became a team where we would actually spend money to acquire both riders and driver…”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 15:15 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
Jun 23, 2017
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Baker: Facebook's MAUs Were Driven More by Retention Than Acquisition
“Facebook was already at a size where retention and engagement were bigger drivers of the North Star metric MAUs than new user acquisition.”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 6:38 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
Jun 23, 2017 neutral
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Baker: Uber tested phone mentoring by existing drivers for first-time trips
“We also experimented with are there ways we can get potentially existing drivers or other people to, like, get on the phone with a driver and talk them through that, that first that first trip.”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 31:07 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
Jun 23, 2017 positive
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Baker: Simple copy change made Japan Facebook's most viral market
“And Japan went from like our least viral country to our most viral country. But it was literally just a copy tweak to make people more comfortable with sharing what the product they were using with their friends.”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 26:59 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
Jun 23, 2017
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Baker: Facebook's growth team reached around 500 people during his tenure
“And when I was at Facebook, I think the growth team was about, around 500 people or so.”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 8:29 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
Jun 23, 2017 neutral
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Elman: Airbnb's growth team expanded from 3 to over 100 people
“Ed joined Uber to start the growth team when it was five people, and then over the three and a half years became kind of VP of both product and growth for kind of all of Uber, and Gustav joined, and the Airbnb growth team was him and two other people when he g…”
Josh Elman Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 0:25 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
Jun 23, 2017 positive
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Baker: Friending Was Facebook's Number One Driver of User Retention
“Most of the growth team at Facebook at the time was actually focused on friending, because we discovered at Facebook that friending was the number one driver of retention and engagement.”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 7:02 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
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