David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, that is, I guess, for Evan. And they watch carefully as Poke launches. Evan had deleted his Facebook account. So he goes to Bobby and has him check out Poke and sure enough, it's great. But the thing that’s even greater is all the buzz that happens for Snapchat by Poke launching. Yeah, and I believe Evan then is quoted as saying like “this is basically like Merry Christmas to Snapchat when Facebook did this” because it had brought so much attention to the platform like the second word out of everybody’s mouth when talking about this huge launch that Facebook was publicizing was Snapchat. Yeah, and so a couple of interesting observations here. One, that’s a super common thing. I think that a lot of the times… I know this actually firsthand. I made a to-do list manager similar to reminders for the iPhone before Reminders launched. And when Reminders launched, we were like, “Oh my God, we're dead. Apple Sherlock does…” And Sherlocking is a reference to Apple back in the day launching an app built into the platform called Sherlock that put all the other search apps out of business. I think you have that story, right? Yeah, Apple called it Sherlock and then Apple built Spotlight. Anyway……

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