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Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:41 Craig Cannon Yeah, do you think Facebook recognized that they weren't hitting their full potential when they started their growth team?
- ▶ 48:08 Gustaf Alströmer Yeah, and I, I, that's actually the, the, the example I give on the Facebook graph on my, on my, um, YouTube video, uh, from startup school. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:22 Gustaf Alströmer Like there, the stack was basically mobile phones, iOS and Android, desktop, Chrome, um, Facebook, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:26 Gustaf Alströmer Um, obviously Facebook is a different example of that.
- ▶ 58:19 Dan Hockenmaier I think, um, there are maybe two reasons for that, one of which I think is more valid, but I think one is companies like Facebook and others maybe got some flack because they were optimizing for these short-term metrics like click-through…
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:02 Jeremy Rossmann So we actually have five years of data, our students getting jobs at Facebook, Google and Tesla and all these great companies.
- ▶ 26:14 Jeremy Rossmann At Google and Facebook and so on and so forth. 2 times in the scene
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:00 Vidit Aatrey WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 Vidit Aatrey And now these people have started to come using Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, now other apps.
- ▶ 16:52 Adora Cheung What if Facebook does this or what if Amazon, why can't, like, why wouldn't just Amazon or Flipkart or anyone just win this space? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:05 Vidit Aatrey India localized version of Shopify tailor-made for doing commerce on WhatsApp, Facebook, right?
- ▶ 43:08 Vidit Aatrey Because these people right now use only WhatsApp, Facebook, maybe a couple more apps, maybe Misho, and that's all.
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:44 Craig Cannon Um, this might be a softball, but he says, in five years time, are personal newsletters going to replace social networks like Facebook? 3 times in the scene
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:31 Brian Halligan Um, how to set up your, and it wasn't even Twitter and Facebook, it was Dig and Reddit back then.
- ▶ 29:19 Brian Halligan A very small percentage of them comes from ads we do on Facebook and Google.
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:29 Jarvis Johnson I think when I started out, I was trying a bunch of things, and, and, uh, the first video that I had that got any traction was actually on Facebook, um, where I posted a video that was making fun of the technical interview, uh, at, in, in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:33 Jarvis Johnson Excuse me, there are a lot of companies visiting for recruiting purposes, and I was like, oh, Facebook is here, Microsoft is here, these are just, like, things that I know of from, like, my computer screen, but they're, like, they're…
- ▶ 9:03 Craig Cannon And most people think like, oh man, once I, you know, fail the Facebook interview, I'm going, not true.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:52 Austen Allred Um, at least, I mean, this was, you know, call it 2010, at least 50% of the class was on Facebook at any given time. 3 times in the scene
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:35 Mike Knoop Yeah, when you're thinking about, like, a consumer adoption, you know, you don't ask Facebook, what's your tan, right?
- ▶ 44:21 Kevin Hale And, like, do you have special internal tools teams, like, you know, that Facebook is kind of famous for?
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:54 Karn Saroya So, uh, you know, like you, we would acquire via all the channels you expect, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, like what have you.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:05 Dalton Caldwell So anyway, it's, it doesn't matter now, but like, I'm just like super fascinated on thinking through just what a great thing you had and all the ways, like, like I've been in Silicon Valley a long time, and it's just like these little…
- ▶ 38:49 Ryan Hoover And there should be like this, uh, the, the other realization is I think some people forget is most people also don't have a large following online, whether it's Twitter or Facebook or whatever.
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:27 Samantha Bradshaw So they might plug into Twitter or into Facebook, and then they might, um, like, share, retweet a whole bunch of different stories very quickly to give something a sense of popularity, like, ooh, lots of people are really engaging with…
- ▶ 7:25 Samantha Bradshaw So in the US, we tend to see a lot of these campaigns on Twitter and Facebook, because that's the platforms that the majority of people use. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Craig Cannon But then you think about, well, when I sign up for Facebook, like I have to give all this personal information. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:29 Samantha Bradshaw Um, but that also means that because it's so hard to create fake accounts on Facebook, the accounts that are fake might actually be a little bit more powerful because people don't expect there to be as many fake people on Facebook as they… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:41 Samantha Bradshaw Um, I think we're already starting to see combustion happen, especially with Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:33 Samantha Bradshaw There's more of a public discussion where I think people are, there's still a shock factor around the fact that Facebook was, you know, storing private phone calls and private messages, um, and, you know, selling that data to other… 2 times in the scene
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:56 unnamed speaker But now, it seems like more people are going to, like, you know, like, the Googles and the Facebook
- ▶ 34:48 Kalam Dennis So, um, we acquire customers through Facebook, Instagram, Facebook, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:52 Kalam Dennis Um, you know, we were mentioning the acquisition channels, and now we're doing Facebook and Instagram advertising.
Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:42 unnamed speaker I'm wondering what the parallels might be today, because I think there are so many engineers working on incredibly technical things that who knows what the implications might be, or I mean, already are, you could see, say, with Facebook,…
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:40 Brian Donohue Um, it may be from social like Twitter or Facebook.
- ▶ 33:22 Brian Donohue So whether it was Mailbox or Dropbox or Sunrise with Microsoft or Parse of Facebook.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:30 Paul Buchheit We actually created the like button, so like, the very first like button was on friend feed, and then mysteriously appeared on Facebook a number of months later. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Geoff Ralston Yeah, um, so did, when you, when you were, you, uh, FriendFeed was bought by Facebook, and so you, you landed in Facebook, did it have a similar feel to their, I guess Facebook was a little bigger by the time you got bought, but did it… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:45 Paul Buchheit It was that when they launched the newsfeed, the, which was around the same time, um, people were furious. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:34 Paul Buchheit As it pertains to their startup, because obviously there's going to be a bunch of changes, but as it pertains to your startup, but factoring out your startup, because even if like Facebook didn't exist, I guarantee someone would have built… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:37 Paul Buchheit So we actually like had even before Facebook, do you remember Orkut? 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:27 Elad Gil Uh, there's Zeppelin, which had, I think, Facebook using them very early.
- ▶ 22:29 Elad Gil Something magical happens, which is like a Google or Facebook where you had people who then executed, they added new product lines, and they were really great at what they were doing in terms of scaling it to the next level.
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:06 Shola Akinlade Last week, last month we had an event with Facebook, just teaching people how to sell on Instagram.
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:10 Eric Migicovsky In a Facebook group, or they earn credibility in a Reddit, you know, group or Discord, like, there's a ton of customers there.
- ▶ 53:03 Eric Migicovsky One of the coolest, like, hacks that you can do is just look through manually, slowly, look through your Facebook or LinkedIn, and just look at every person's name and think, is this person cool and technical?
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:46 Calvin French-Owen Like, students would go to Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, like, in retrospect, all the things that you would assume college students would do if they have a laptop in front of them in a lecture, but, uh, we didn't quite see it that way.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:03 Patrick Collison I, I don't, well, Aaron Levy, um, had Facebook messaged John 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:27 Patrick Collison Um, and that's not the, sort of, standard, obviously, uh, kind of, Silicon Valley pattern where, sort of, Apple and Amazon and Facebook and Google and all these companies, uh, tend to be, sort of, highly concentrated in these, um, uh, sort…
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:58 Mathilde Collin Uh, I mean, so the thing is, so every single moment is super hard, and so one of my biggest learnings from YC four years ago when, you know, the company was super small, and every Tuesday we had people coming and talking about all kinds of…
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:43 Eli Schwartz Facebook has made it a lot harder to get an organic reach, and now you're paying for traffic on Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:32 Eli Schwartz The, we're, uh, sharing things on Facebook or, you know, sharing things even with, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:26 Eli Schwartz Like Facebook, if, you know, I don't know that the stats are out yet of people refusing to use Facebook because they don't want to opt into their privacy policy, maybe they're not on the platform anymore. 2 times in the scene
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:02 Craig Cannon Again, this might not be super valuable to you in the beginning, but a lot of YC companies launch without a Facebook pixel, and what this is going to do is capture who's hitting your site, who's logged into Facebook, so then you can later… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Craig Cannon A lot of companies just rely on paid acquisitions, you know, like boosted posts on Facebook, that kind of thing.
- ▶ 16:01 Craig Cannon Uh, SEO, uh, Airbnb made a bunch of city guides, so these are both super useful, they get you on the site, you can hit someone with a Facebook pixel,
- ▶ 34:19 Kat Manalac Um, and so, you know, she, I would then ask my network, you know, everyone I know on Facebook, any other founders I know, would you be willing to give, does anyone know Laura?
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:00 Suhail Doshi Maybe you're going super viral on Facebook, um, or on some, or Instagram or something, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:26 Suhail Doshi Like, those, like, social buttons where you can just, like, quickly authenticate, like Facebook Connect?
- ▶ 53:14 Suhail Doshi Um, we went to so far as to like, we found this like clever trick that Facebook used, which was that when you failed to log into Mixpanel like three times, um, on your third time, we just send you an email that says, you know,
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:49 Ooshma Garg Um, it's, I mean, there's all these companies, like Facebook, or Snapchat, or this or that, that have turned down different offers over time, and sometimes it's
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Peter Reinhardt All students opened their laptops and they all went straight to Facebook. 3 times in the scene
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:41 David Rusenko You could also create a Facebook page.
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:29 Michael Seibel If you are never going to charge your customers money, like Facebook, then maybe it should be a usage based metric.
- ▶ 45:49 Michael Seibel Facebook wasn't first to social networking, and Google wasn't first to search engines.
- ▶ 49:46 Michael Seibel When was the last time you suggested a feature to mark at Facebook, and then the feature came out?
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:06 Paul Graham Who would, or like Zuck, starting Facebook, you know, just like, let's see what happens, right?
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:18 Craig Cannon Uh, Facebook ads at the time, and then just emailing them to see if they're really interested, or you're just good at like creating a landing page?
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:40 Sam Altman If you think about the most successful companies you know, Google, Facebook, whatever, ah, you probably found out about them because a friend of yours said, you gotta try this, it's great.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:40 Elad Gil Uh, and then there was a bunch of stuff that didn't even exist at that point that became massive like Facebook.
- ▶ 14:34 Elad Gil For example, Matt Kohler was early at LinkedIn, and then he was at Facebook, and then of course he eventually joined Benchmark.
- ▶ 23:44 Elad Gil Um, other companies like Facebook were known as not as good at hiring early on, although they'd gotten much better over time, but in the very early days, um, they were known as not great at hiring, but they were very good at actually… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 unnamed speaker Do you have opinions on the ad campaigns Facebook's running right now to kind of like say, hey, we're sorry, and we're not about fake news? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:10 Elad Gil So, you know, uh, Instagram, for example, uh, famously had, I think about a dozen employees when they were acquired by Facebook.
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:00 Jessica Livingston I mean, imagine Mark Zuckerberg back in his dorm room in 2004 with his website that let college students see what other students at the school were doing.
Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:12 Scott Aaronson This is actually used, I think, and some, I don't know if Facebook uses it, but some, some, uh, uh, uh, websites use this.
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:49 Craig Cannon And are you doing, like, Facebook ads and stuff like that? 2 times in the scene
Simon Benjamin on Architectures for Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15:09 Simon Benjamin So, machine learning is now working in the sense that it's working in Facebook.
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15:12 John Preskill You know, and to recognize when an argument is phony, and when it's authentic, and to think about, well, how can I check whether what I just read on Facebook is really true?
Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:31 Avichal Garg And we just couldn't have predicted social media that actually like Facebook and Twitter would be the actual media winners or YouTube would be the actual media winner.
- ▶ 48:55 Craig Cannon I think I like, I would bet a hundred percent on that because if you, you know, you ask the average person like, so what language is Facebook in?
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:02 Patrick Moberg He was like, we gotta try Facebook marketing, um, which at the time, like, no other, I think very few other Betaworks companies were, like, doing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 Patrick Moberg So the competition on Facebook has gotten really steep.
- ▶ 11:04 Holly Liu So early, early on, when we were on Facebook, the development cycles were a lot shorter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Holly Liu So we probably were a bit more open, like we were doing a casual game on Facebook
- ▶ 40:58 Holly Liu They're like the first games, I'll be honest, that we saw on Facebook, like Crypto Kitties, uh, crypto celebs.
- ▶ 48:11 Holly Liu Even the ones on Facebook.
A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:20 unnamed speaker Like, so, you know, News Feed, for instance, like, you could call that AI to a certain extent, right, as it's feeding you information. 3 times in the scene
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:52 Claire McDonnell The three resources I would recommend are, first of all, Facebook has an, an online training called Managing Bias.
Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:09 Anne Wojcicki There was all kinds of interesting, there's like a whole, there's all kinds of interesting things, because people would publish stuff on Facebook, and then doctors would say, like, do you have the right
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:56 Vivek Ravisankar We had no contacts, so we had to figure out a way to scramble through LinkedIn and Facebook.
- ▶ 47:24 Vivek Ravisankar Facebook or others.
Funding Is an Outcome of Building a Good Business - Porter Braswell of Jopwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:56 Craig Cannon Does Facebook's, I mean, not Facebook, but like tech in general, uh, the, the breakdown of, you know, um, these, these types of employees, uh, does that match the computer science enrollment in terms of percentages or is there a drop off?
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker I mean, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, all of those, there's quite a bit of market cap if you add those up together.
- ▶ 33:49 Andy Bromberg Facebook's a network, right?
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:28 Elad Gil And that's when you get a Google or a Facebook or one of these outside successes.
- ▶ 43:26 Pejman Nozad This is an email in July, 2005 from, um, lawyer of Facebook, um, letting me know that I can invest 50,000 dollars in series B of Facebook, which was under hundred million. 4 times in the scene
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:03 Geoff Ralston Um, he, uh, he also, uh, created a company called FriendFeed, which he sold to Facebook.