Managing Partner @chapterone, Write at The New Internet https://t.co/4tnH3y1OmY, Former VP Product, Revenue @Tinder
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Oct 26, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The TikTok War: Why High School & College Kids Are Getting The Wrong Information about Hamas & Israel
I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we're losing the information war with high school & college students.
🚩One red flag was seeing San Francisco high school students who were aggressively anti-Israel and asking myself where they were getting news.
Their protests happened right after the fake @nytimes headline that accused Israel of the hospital bomb.
Her analysis of the NFT ecosystem in early January 2022 is a sneak peak at how her talent will help us build a data organization @chapterone to identify investment opportunities.
But that's just the start of where I see Jamesin contributing...
An engineer by background, Yash is also an incredible storyteller & will create content & products that make web3 more accessible for non-crypto natives.
Our goal at Chapter One is to make web3 more user-friendly.
Yash is uniquely positioned to make that happen as a builder 🔨
Dec 14, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
☀️ Announcing Page Two: $50m+ crypto fund to elevate product & design across Web3 ☀️
We spent 6 months building a new @chapterone from first principles before fund two.
New team, new look & new fund focused on what we love building & supporting in web3.
Our mission was investing in on ramps to make crypto more accessible.
Jan 1, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I spent weeks researching & writing my 2020 technology predictions.
🎉 Time for some fun (thread)
1. Future of Face ID: Apple won the early days of face authentication, which they’ll aggressively expand as a replacement for email & passwords.
Google, Amazon, Facebook will...
attempt to compete by iterating on their own versions of Face ID. Facebook Connect will lose market share.
As competition intensifies, we’ll see more innovation in the use of biometrics as an identifier for email/password (along with PIN, multi-factor auth, privileged access).
Dec 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When looking for a startup to join, search for companies who are “succeeding despite themselves”:
1. Product funnels aren’t optimized 2. Marketing channels still being tested 3. Operations are messy
If customers love the product despite this, they have early product market fit.
At Tinder in 2015, we were a huge brand that had never sent a marketing push notification.
In my 2nd week, my team sent a push notification to 30M+ users to announce a feature.
We had our highest traffic day ever & people congratulated me.
We were succeeding despite ourselves.
Oct 26, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Don Valentine, the greatest of all time. I spent the morning watching his GSB talk. Rest in peace:
1. If you don't attack a big market, it's highly unlikely you're ever going to build a big company.
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2. We don't spend a lot of time wondering where people went to school.
We are interested in their idea about the market they are after.
The magnitude of the problem they are solving.
And what can happen if the combination of Sequoia and the individuals are correct.
Apr 6, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
10 Product Predictions as we begin Q2 2019:
1. More entrepreneurs & investors will talk about their struggles with mental health. Leaders will treat this as one of the most important workplace topics. Top companies will adopt infrastructure help employees manage mental health.
2. Facebook will have a tough 2019 as election season heats up. Presidential candidates will engage in unethical online acquisition tactics inspired by the 2016 election. Candidates who abuse performance marketing channels will be outed by Facebook. Most will not be caught.
Mar 6, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Storytime:
In 2009, I graduated from USC Film School & took a job at UTA Digital.
We were nerds at UTA. The misfits who watched YouTube videos while co-workers dreamed up film projects with clients like Johnny Depp.
In the nerd area, I sat next to a 22 year-old named Charlie.
Charlie was hilarious, but he didn't act like someone who wanted to become an agent. People just assumed he would quit & move back home one day.
People brushed Charlie off because he dressed a bit goofy (we all wore suits and ties) & didn't graduate from an Ivy League school.
Feb 3, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Business idea I'd like to fund:
As rent increases in metro areas, landmark restaurants/eateries die because owners cannot afford physical storefronts or grow tired of operating.
Recent examples -- Carnegie Deli (NYC), Oasis Pizza (Menlo Park) & Lucca Ravioli (San Francisco).
I visited Oasis in the final week & there were lines down the street. Insane customer demand and community support!
Lucca Ravioli has incredible loyalty as well, but the owners want to retire.
Our neighborhoods would be better if these landmarks survive.
How can we do it?
Jan 24, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“Everything in mobile has already been built." 100% disagree.
Here are few things that haven't been built:
1. Business Intelligence:
* Ever tried to run a data query from your phone? Almost impossible.
* We need a mobile first BI app that lets employees pull data via voice.
2. Design Tools:
* Still incredibly hard to do basic design work on your phone.
* Build an app that lets you copy and paste elements from any application.
* Easily move app elements to show UI/UX concepts (i.e. "what if we put the sign up button here?")
Jan 19, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Like artists and musicians, entrepreneurs often fall off after releasing a blockbuster product.
Why does this happen? How can you avoid it?
I’ve thought about this question for a long time (probably out of fear it will happen to me). Here is what I’ve discovered.
2. The sequel rarely beats the original.
Godfather II & The Dark Knight are amazing, but most of us aren’t Francis Ford Coppola or Christopher Nolan.
If you built a blockbuster product, try something new.
Be Steve Jobs at Pixar, not Steve Jobs at Next Computer.
Jan 16, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
No brainer opportunity:
Starting to work on my thesis project for UCLA Anderson.
My teammates are rock stars — a current Amazon employee who manages a large team, early Jawbone employee with deep retail background, and founder of a wine startup.
We are looking for a tech company to spend 5 months with.
You will effectively get 100’s of hours from 4 Executive MBA’s with amazing tech backgrounds (who have solved problems at scale) at a minimal cost.
We are selecting a company within the next 24 hours.
Jan 1, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
10 Product Predictions for 2019:
1. Instagram will become a full fledged e-commerce destination by launching the IG marketplace for buying clothes, furniture, consumer electronics, and cars. Payments will eventually be powered by the Facebook stablecoin amongst other options.
2. AirPods will continue their dominance as the most important AAPL product since the iPhone. We will see new use cases and social networks emerge as Apple opens up the AirPods API.
