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Tucker Carlson: "Why didn't you take any funding?"
Pavel Durov: "Why should I?"
Tucker: "Why don't you hire a lot of people?"
Pavel: "Why should I?"
1. Pavel Durov bootstrapped Telegram from his savings (sold his previous social media platform, and says he was for... See more
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Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup, told us during a workshop, “people show up for the meetup but they come back for the people.”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
I think all social networks start off as a utility and blossom into social networks long term, and that’s because they earn the right to be a social network, not because they start as a social network. That’s kind of where I think we are, is this utility phase where we’re trying to be as good as possible for our beginning users and we’re going to
... See moreBen Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
Zuck had one deep insight in 2004: that college men were too afraid to ask for a girl’s phone number and that they’d prefer to just friend them on Facebook.
The strength of that insight, along with some organizational alignment, grew the entire network to where it is today. But over that period, he completely stopped us... See more
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