Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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20 published records
01 / belief
“There were the product issues, but also I think you raise an interesting point. I hadn't thought about it.”
02 / belief
“There were some people inside the company that, of course, would build little things during hack weeks and stuff around that, but I would say no.”
03 / belief
“I think pundits talk about this a lot where they're like, well, in order to maintain their status as agnostic platform, that's not taking sides and actually being a media company, if they arbit what is said on their platform too much, then they'll be viewed as an arbiter instead of an independent.”
04 / belief
“The insert of the Instagram photo into the Twitter feed is no longer going to work and it's just going to be a link. I think he said something like they're going to shut that off tomorrow.”
05 / belief
“The first you mentioned, I think to this day still, when you post an Instagram link on Twitter, frustratingly it is just a URL.”
06 / belief
“We realized right away, we need an advertising format that goes everywhere the tweets go.”
07 / belief
“Since then, I think companies are really leading the charge in a number of ways and on a number of fronts around political ads.”
08 / belief
“I think all of us, probably Dick included, have just one carve-out for all of you today and it's a big one.”
09 / evaluation
“Man, that is the best encapsulation of the story of consumer technology over the last decade on the internet.”
10 / belief
“I think one of the interesting things that happened was we're pretty confident about our financials.”
11 / commitment
“I ended up putting some money into the, I think that was the seed round in Twitter, that Union Square Ventures, Fred Wilson let us put a personal check into the seed round on Twitter.”
12 / prediction
“As Ben and I were reflecting on what the Acquired way to do a Twitter episode would be, we realized that there actually was this pretty significant fork in history—you might say it turned on a knifepoint—where starting in about 2010, it could have been Twitter that ended up owning Instagram, not Facebook, and the conversation we'd be having today about mobile, consumer, and social could all look very different.”
13 / evaluation
“No, I think the reason RSS didn't succeed is just because Facebook and Twitter displays them.”
14 / evaluation
“Yes, because the road to being a platform company for Twitter at the time—based on the way the API had been leveraged to date, 95% of which was to build people going and building their own clients and taking the stuff out of Twitter and moving it away from Twitter and doing whatever they wanted with it—the road from that to building a platform where developers could build into Twitter was far.”
15 / evaluation
“I think if I remember correctly, we, this whole time don't ever have access to the Facebook API.”
16 / commitment
“If I remember correctly, we made it $600 million to the cap table, but Kevin and Mike get a lot more because we're going to throw in a bunch of stuff just for them.”
17 / prediction
“The only reason for the difference that I can think of are interest targeting versus demographic targeting. It's possible that you could come up with a world in which nothing really changes about the way you think about either user base, but the average revenue per user or the value of a user flip flops because of some other innovation.”
18 / evaluation
“Those are great indicators of engagement and he was the father of thinking about the way we built the ad model and the monetization engine behind it and charged for it.”
19 / preference
“You can't, despite what anyone else wants to say, you can't build an advertising business in which a bunch of other people own the user experience because it doesn't make any sense.”
20 / prediction
“The idea behind FeedBurner was it will be important to sit between publication and subscription because there will be all sorts of interesting things that happened.”