I think what is happening is people think of us as a feed app, because we started as a feed app. When we launched Instagram, there were no stories, there were no DMs. What's happened over the last decade is that how people share with friends has changed. It has shifted to stories, and it has shifted to DMs and to group chats. More photos and videos... See more
as with everything, the internet is unbundling and then re-bundling. We unbundled songs from CDs and rebundled on playlists. We unbundled articles from newspapers and rebundled them on social feeds. And now like it or not we’re doing that to core societal institutions like dating and marriage. We basically just unbundled all pair mating... See more
With more than 13 million users, Mint is considered the market leader in the PFM space. However, after being quickly acquired by Intuit in 2009 for $170m, the app has spent more than a decade failing to innovate.
Differentiation—if a new brand is going to stand out from the pack and get noticed, that’s not going to happen with the millennial pink, and (as evidenced by the article in The Cut). People are ready for something new.
All of these factors come together in YouTube, where people upload their digital videos to the internet on a viewing platform that allows for easy search and content aggregation — all on a massive scale.
I’m convinced that customer-centricity is the main benefit of the PR/FAQ. Sure, you may accomplish many of the same goals with a more conventional Product Requirements Document (PRD). Or you may write a free-form, technical spec — which was what I commonly did in previous roles. But I’ve learnt that the ‘press release’ portion of the PR/FAQ format... See more
'-If you look at a lot of the issues people have with social networks, I would argue a lot of it comes from a mismatch between the nature of these networks and the legacy corporate structures that govern them.