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Mignano: AI Models Will Become New Distribution Engines for Creator Likenesses
“Maybe the model is the distribution then, like we're saying, and maybe similarly how for TikTok,
It became about, obviously, the videos, and we can create a video, but you could also, like, you could let creators pull from the song catalog.
You know, Instagram…”
Reeves: Gusto rejected 11 VC firms to raise seed solely from angels
“We had, I think, like, over 11 VC firms offer to invest. We actually chose to do the round with no VC firms. It was all angels, so we raised from, you know, twenty-plus CEOs and founders. It was, you know, the CEOs and founders of, you know, PayPal and Stripe …”
Sloan predicts Facebook updates and Instagram photos will be gone by 2050
“I would not bet against everything that we're pouring into kind of the vast digital box, you know, like everything, the Facebook updates, the Instagram photos, all of it basically being gone in 2060, 20, 50. Like, I hope that's not the case, and I mean, it see…”
Tan: Mobile-contained AI code generation is an 'Instagram moment'
“The kind of stuff you could do in CodeGen tools today, but having it be entirely contained to your mobile phone is, I mean, that's like an Instagram moment right there.”
Laura Behrens Wu: Amazon is a transactional utility, not an emotional brand
“I think Amazon is great for generic purchases, but It's really, like, you don't see Amazon making funny jokes on Twitter as a corporate account. Like, you don't see anyone tagging Amazon in their Instagram posts. It's just that people in their free time don't …”
Elman: Facebook Insiders See Instagram App Install Ads as Significantly Underpriced
“The tip I got yesterday at F eight talking about to Facebook folks is they think Instagram app install ads are significantly underpriced relative to Facebook.”
Emergent Scaled Early Distribution via TikTok and Instagram Influencer Networks
“We built out a large influencer network and that was our, Initial sort of, you know starting point for us. Like we use TikTok, Instagram, and part of this bunch of influencers to really, really spread the word out. And that sort of, you know, kickstarted the w…”
Dennis: Facebook and Instagram ads became AptDeco's most profitable channel
“And toward, toward now it's our one of our, it's our most profitable best channel. And, you know, it's something that it took us quite frankly, three, four years to kind of really figure out how to do it, you know?”
Laura Behrens Wu: Glossier excels by feeling like a friend, not corporate
“I think they're doing a phenomenal job just making sure that their followers are being engaged on the right channels, the channels that they're active on, and that it's Not that corporate. Like it does not, when I look at their site, I don't get a corporate fe…”