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every year anyone Vidit Aatrey 24Craig Cannon 9Gustaf Alströmer 4Tom Blomfield 3Sonal Choksi 3Eric Migicovsky 3Aravind Srinivas 3Aadit Palicha 3Suhail Doshi 2Peter Steinberger 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WhatsApp comes up
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:25 Mukund Jha They're running their business today on, on email, WhatsApp, spreadsheet, uh, and would have gone to a dev shop to sort of build a custom software, um, to run, automate their business.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:13 Boris Cherny Um, and I was responsible for the quality of all of our code bases across every product, across like, you know, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, whatever.
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:48 Peter Steinberger It was just a little bit of glue between, like, a dependency that connects WhatsApp and Cloud Code, and then I would, like, call Cloud Code and get, like, the string out of Cloud Code. 2 times in the scene
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:10 Michael Truell Um, they encrypt the body of the messages, but they don't hide who's talking to who at what time, which is actually really crucial information if you don't want to trust the messaging app provider.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:13 Aravind Srinivas Like, like it's not like WhatsApp where if you build a WhatsApp rival, Meta has a definitely like a questionable brand, right? 3 times in the scene
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:54 Satya Nadella Uh, with one of these India stacks, speech to text, text to speech, uh, open source things, and then showed a local Indian farmer who was able to sort of use a, a chat bot that was built in WhatsApp, uh, to be able to get some agricultural…
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:13 Aadit Palicha So we just decided to, to hack around, work on a project, and it just started off as like a WhatsApp group where we were delivering groceries for our neighbors, because it was a nightmare to get groceries in the first wave of the pandemic.
- ▶ 4:28 Aadit Palicha I mean, the first like real interaction with the customer was basically a WhatsApp group. 2 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:55 Tom Blomfield And so WhatsApp is a great example of this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Tom Blomfield Even a hundred percent organic to zero percent paid for some of the absolute best consumer companies like Facebook and WhatsApp in the early days.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:58 Gustaf Alströmer One common idea that a lot of YC companies are using is to create a Slack instance or a WhatsApp group for, with their customers. 2 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:57 Michael Seibel Um, you put your initial users in a WhatsApp group that you can all talk with together, but like things that absolutely don't scale.
- ▶ 47:27 Eric Migicovsky Oscar says, we're blue, a platform where housewives resell products from suppliers using WhatsApp.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:23 Amber Atherton Conversations move pretty quickly to WhatsApp, like to, to chat. 2 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:54 unnamed speaker I mean, I think WhatsApp's a great example.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:44 Gustaf Alströmer So rearranging Facebook for mobile, if you look at both Instagram and WhatsApp are mobile products. 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
- ▶ 2:19 Vidit Aatrey You can come here, start your shop on WhatsApp, access anything from our supply marketplace, and only when you get an order, you purchase that from the marketplace.
- ▶ 4:48 Vidit Aatrey So, WhatsApp started to become very, very popular about five years ago in India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Vidit Aatrey A lot of people in Gujarat and Karnataka were running these WhatsApp stores even before us because they had gone out, met suppliers, figured out how to do career. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Vidit Aatrey Even if they start doing, it'll have to stop at some time, because this is one of the few things that are going to happen on WhatsApp.
- ▶ 21:50 Vidit Aatrey See, I sell on WhatsApp. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Vidit Aatrey That was Misho Supply, and we did this on WhatsApp. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:45 Vidit Aatrey I used to add them to on WhatsApp and I say, I'm going to do customer support for you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:08 Vidit Aatrey Because these people right now use only WhatsApp, Facebook, maybe a couple more apps, maybe Misho, and that's all.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:44 Craig Cannon WhatsApp, FaceTime kind of stuff, but that's it.
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:09 Craig Cannon And so that must be, so is that what's happening with WhatsApp, or are these individuals that are just creating content and then getting them, posting them to groups? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:19 Craig Cannon Well, that's a separate, I mean, is that, um, the, the breaking up of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, is that, that a topic of conversation here at the OII as well?
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:38 Eric Migicovsky Um, they can range from, you know where the WhatsApp guy, uh, posted his app first in back in 2009? 2 times in the scene
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:01 Mathilde Collin And I think like WhatsApp and Facebook messenger and all these other, uh, tools.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:43 Suhail Doshi I don't know what the kids use these days, maybe, like, WhatsApp, but, uh, um, but, uh, but I honestly just, like, would just badger them on, like, WhatsApp or, you know, Gchat or whatever, um, and then just ask them. 2 times in the scene
Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:12 Anne Wojcicki Right, and I think what happens is that people, they, like, hear the WhatsApp story, they hear other stories, and, and, and I say, like, you, the real story is, like, the companies that continue to persist, even if there's challenges, and… 2 times in the scene
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:12 Avichal Garg and then you'll get a Snapchat or a WhatsApp or an Uber or a Lyft or a Stripe or like the list goes on, right?
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:47 Craig Cannon Because it's true, like, your, your numbers aren't, you know, WhatsApp numbers, right?
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:52 Sonal Choksi I'm an avid WhatsApp user, and, um, because I have an extended relative network in India, and I've been using WhatsApp for ages, and one of the things that I love is that there's this new form of, like, messaging native content that I… 3 times in the scene