22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-03-20
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Evan decided to study product design, to learn how to look at the things he used in his daily life and see…”
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Focus
“After going back and forth on the trade-offs between focusing on growth and making money, they ultimately decided to focus on growth…”
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People
“Recently, Snapchat just went through a major redesign that's got heavily, heavily criticized because it separated your f- friends where you, uh…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“What's interesting to, to me is, uh, my brother-in-law a few years ago actually did this exact same thing when he's like…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“So I want to, um, add something into our Critics Don't Know Shit segment, and this is the first time Evan is…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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