What podcasts say about Evan Spiegel
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What Evan Spiegel has said on podcasts
40 statements · 28 positive · 10 negative · 2 neutral
New consumer services now face greater distribution difficulty.
“It's a lot harder to get distribution for new ideas and new services”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 3:55
TikTok achieved distribution through substantial financial investment.
“TikTok did it with money”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 4:08
TikTok spent billions subsidizing viewers and creators to bootstrap its marketplace.
“They spent billions of dollars subsidizing both sides of their video marketplace”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 4:12
Threads benefited from Meta’s distribution across its other products.
“with Threads, obviously they were able to leverage the amazing distribution that Meta has across all their other products”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 4:25
Consumer technology builders underinvest attention in distribution.
“people don't spend nearly enough time thinking about distribution and figuring out distribution”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 4:43
Social network value depends more on connecting users with important people than everyone.
“what really mattered was connecting you to the right people”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 5:25
New computing form factors such as glasses will enable major consumer-company opportunities.
“there's going to be a whole new set of opportunities and a whole new surface for people to build generational consumer companies”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 7:05
Software alone does not provide a durable competitive moat.
“software is not a moat”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 10:26
Network effects alone are insufficient protection against software cloning.
“I don't think they're enough when it comes to these sorts of software, you know, software cloning”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 12:07
Platforms supporting creator, developer, and community relationships are difficult to copy.
“that in and of itself, we found, is incredibly difficult to copy”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 12:34
Computers and mobile phones can isolate people from one another.
“computers and I think today with mobile phones, is that in many ways they isolate us from one another”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 13:32
Technology can be designed to bring people together and keep them grounded in reality.
“There's just such a big opportunity to build technology that actually brings us together”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 13:54
AR Specs anchor digital content in the physical world rather than on a small screen.
“They actually like anchor content in the world, which is really different”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 16:51
Most people will not value receiving phone notifications through glasses.
“I don't think receiving phone notifications on your face is like, you know, a valuable, you know, proposition for most folks”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 17:10
Large hierarchical organizations make employees more promotion-focused and risk-averse.
“as soon as you have an organization that's very large and very structured like that, people become very focused on getting a promotion”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 18:58
Flat organizational structures generally support innovation.
“structures that are really healthy and constructive for innovation typically are very, very flat”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 19:28
Successful companies combine innovative flat teams with structured operating organizations.
“the companies that are very successful actually have both types of organizations inside their company”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 19:49
Dialogue between engineers and designers helps generate innovation.
“strengthening that dialogue between engineers and designers and creating, you know, an environment where, you know, folks feel comfortable throwing out really crazy ideas”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 23:19
Generating many ideas increases the chance of producing a good idea.
“if you want to have a good idea, you have to have lots of ideas”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 25:05
Product builders should talk directly with customers.
“you have to talk to customers”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 25:31
Deep customer conversations reveal how technology fits into people’s lives.
“going deep and talking with someone for an hour, two hours about how do they use technology, how does it fit in their lives”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 25:48
Snap Stories addressed user feedback without implementing requested features literally.
“we came up with something totally new and different, which were stories”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 27:41
At scale, product managers coordinate cross-functional product development.
“product managers play a really important role in bringing all those folks to the table”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 33:25
Snap designers increasingly ship production code.
“a lot of our designers are now shipping code”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 35:38
Design approval bottlenecks produce a more cohesive customer experience.
“that bottleneck is really, really important because that's what results in a cohesive customer experience”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 36:55
Leaders should stay close to customers and product performance.
“staying close to your customer, staying close to the product and the way that it's serving your customer is the fundamentally most important thing you could possibly do”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 38:38
Snap bases design hiring decisions primarily on portfolios.
“we make all of our, you know, hiring decisions just based off portfolio”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 39:54
Young designers develop through high-volume creation and frequent feedback.
“the number one way to develop young design talent is just help them make lots of stuff and get a lot of feedback”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 42:18
Snap’s automated code review has detected nearly 10,000 bugs.
“we've got automated code review now. We've, I think, automatically detected like close to 10,000 bugs at this point”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 46:53
Snap agents can diagnose bugs and suggest fixes.
“agents now debug exactly what happened, what went wrong, and can actually suggest a fix”
Open the episode · Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelListen at 47:08
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