Bryant Wu

The best models are ones that don't really rely much on paid acquisition. The best entrepreneurs have figured out hacks to get user demand at scale through a user proposition

Chen talks about how Network effects aren’t one singular effect, but rather made up of three distinct forces:- The Acquisition Effect which allows products to tap into their network to drive growth in users more cheaply as the network grows- The Engagement Effect which involves user engagement going up as the network grows- The Economic Effect... See more

The shorthand is the three characteristics that the seekers and the Wizard of Oz were seeking. To follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and have their wizard grant them. What did the cowardly lion want? Courage. All right, courage. That's number one. The scarecrow was seeking if I only had a brain, he was seeking wisdom. And perhaps the... See more

There are multiple ways an idea can fail at scale, and to achieve high voltage, you must check each of the Five Vital Signs: false positives, misjudging the representativeness of an initial population or situation, spillovers, and prohibitive costs. Any one of these alone can sink your ship.

Typically what the consumer founder is, typically they're really young, they're digital natives, and they've made observations about the state of the digital world that typically more senior workers with more experience don't make.

The engagement effect is best measured by looking at usage metrics such as time spent / posts made / transactions completed (or whatever the key atomic metric of engagement in the product is) and retention rates of various cohorts, with ideally later cohorts having higher retention rates off the bat, and older cohorts showing an uptick in retention... See more

One of my fundamental insights along with Lloyd Frank, who's my co-founder at Zillow, and was at Microsoft, and Expedia, and Zillow with me as well, was that a regular person armed with a connected PC that's plugged into the internet was going to in effect, storm the best deal. Was going to be armed with a weapon to tear down every wall that... See more