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Srinivas: No AI product has in-app network effects yet
“No AI product has within app network effect. Like it's not like WhatsApp where if you build a WhatsApp rival, Meta has a definitely like a questionable brand, right? Like people don't necessarily trust Meta's products. They think like these are ad products. De…”
Facebook will fail if it attempts hands-on commerce operations
“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. It's not the only thing that's going to happen.”
Disinformation actors target locally dominant platforms like WhatsApp in India
“The people who want to manipulate public opinion, they're gonna go to where the people are, and the platforms that the people are using. So in the US, we tend to see a lot of these campaigns on Twitter and Facebook, because that's the platforms that the majori…”
Oxford researchers found widespread meme-based disinformation in Brazilian WhatsApp groups
“We looked at WhatsApp in Brazil, for example, and in that study we joined a bunch of different groups Were looking at the kinds of images and the kinds of conversations that were being shared. And there were a lot of memes that were being used to public, to pu…”
Many YC startups create Slack or WhatsApp groups for their customers
“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.”
Meesho doubled monthly for six months using only WhatsApp
“But just on WhatsApp with no app, no website in six months, you're doubling every month, and this was still going at the same space.”
Aatrey: Over half of early Meesho users were housewives on WhatsApp
“More than half of our total users were not the same segment that we intended this product to be for. It was not that offline shop. A lot of them were housewives who were running their boutiques on WhatsApp.”
Migicovsky: WhatsApp first launched on the FlyerTalk travel forums in 2009
“You know where the WhatsApp guy posted his app first in back in 2009?
[2266] Adora Cheung: No.
[2266] Eric Migicovsky: He posted it on FlyerTalk.
[2268] Eric Migicovsky: Forums, which is, like, a whole bunch of, like, geeky business people who fly a lot.
[22…”
Palicha: Zepto began as a WhatsApp grocery delivery group for neighbors
“So we just decided 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.”