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Lieb: Musk said Twitter should make far-left and far-right equally unhappy
“I think Elon explicitly said, when you're using Twitter, you should feel equally bad if you're on the far left or on the far right.”
DeBaun: Black Americans watch 8 hours of TV daily while driving content
“Black people and people of color actually over index and watching television, so it's about eight hours a day on average, it's a lot, the average person watches about five, and at the same time, we're huge content creators”
Garry Tan: Twitter acquired Posterous for approximately $20 million
“Posturus was dead simple blogs by email. It grew to be a top 200 website on the internet, and then Twitter ended up buying it for about twenty million dollars, so that was sort of like my first bag, really.”
Pokémon GO reached Twitter's 10-year active user count in one month
“In fact, I think Pokemon go by the first month after launching, they had the same number of Active as Twitter, which took them 10 years to get there, and they got there in one month.”
Optimizely pivoted in YC W10 after a failed Twitter referral widget
“This company optimizely went through YC on winter 10, and they put this prototype literally in a couple of days, and the reason why is that they had applied with YC with a very different idea. They started with a Twitter referral widget, and that idea didn't w…”