Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
23 May 2016 Acquired Snapchat
“Apparently, according to an interview with Evan suggest maybe they should talk to BestBuy about a partnership. I don’t know what that would be, maybe with cameras or something.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 23 May 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Snapchat
Transcript context
…Right. You have to click the ‘choose file’ button on your computer. I mean, that’s a mess. It was janky. And it goes over like a LED balloon. The app of esteemed VC judges hates it. Apparently, according to an interview with Evan suggest maybe they should talk to BestBuy about a partnership. I don’t know what that would be, maybe with cameras or something. So, not an auspicious start to the early days of Snapchat. But undaunted, they decided to keep working on. So they spend the whole summer after that quarter working on the app, and they worked really hard, and they grow with the app, and by the end of the summer, they have 127 users. Which having worked on a couple of consumer things that didn’t work and actually working on one now, it is so terrifying when you see these super low numbers, and then everything you’re reading about in the press has insanely high consumer engagement and you’re like, “I need three to four more orders of magnitude before this is…”…
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