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Scientific Advertising
Claude C. Hopkins
“i found it incredibly helpful”
“i remember having i think it was scientific advertising which was published a few years before this book recommended to me and it was i want to say a public domain and i found it incredibly helpful”— Tim Ferriss
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Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore
“i was such a huge fan of his because of crossing the chasm”
“i was such a huge fan of his because of crossing the chasm and so he had written this book which you know before lean startup”— Andrew Chen
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Masters of Scale
Reid Hoffman
“i would also highly recommend people check out it was an early episode of masters of scale”
“i would also highly recommend people check out it was an early episode of masters of scale with reid hoffman featuring brian chesky”— Tim Ferriss
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The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
“he is the author of the cold start problem a book exploring how new startups are launched”— Tim Ferriss
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Five Bullet Friday
Tim Ferriss
“quite a few years ago i decided to focus on five bullet friday in the newsletter which has also become this sort of joy for me”— Tim Ferriss
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My Life in Advertising
Claude C. Hopkins
“you often recommend a book called my life in advertising this is not a new book i recognized a name claude c hopkins”— Tim Ferriss
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
“you know eric reese great guy famous for the lean startup i remember going to like a 12 person seminar”— Tim Ferriss
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen (inferred)
“he had written this book which you know before lean startup and before innovator's dilemma and all that kind of stuff”— Andrew Chen
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Dropbox
Dropbox
“when he was working with dropbox dropbox was growing you know really fast drew houston and those guys had you know announced on hacker news”— Andrew Chen
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Eventbrite
Eventbrite
“he was working with dropbox and eventbrite and a bunch of bunch of companies bunch of startups”— Andrew Chen
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LogMeIn
LogMeIn
“his background was he he had worked on a bunch of freemium companies like logged me in”— Andrew Chen
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Slack
Slack
“if you look inside of an uber or a dropbox or a slack or whatever they all have growth teams now”— Andrew Chen
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Blogger
Google (inferred)
“i think i had on blogger originally which is ev williams is old company of course and i started just writing everything i knew”— Andrew Chen
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Ning
Ning (inferred)
“the way that i met mark andreessen actually was he was reading my blog and he was working on ning at the time”— Andrew Chen
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WordPress
WordPress
“i started my blog in 2005 i want to say wordpress still worldwide og og”— Tim Ferriss
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“can we just make memes now that's actually we're in the post world so we should just make memes and just put them on twitter”— Andrew Chen
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TikTok
ByteDance (inferred)
“a new social app is using tick tock to drive a lot of new users but on the other hand you also see that wow a lot of those new users”— Andrew Chen
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Netflix
Netflix
“how do i write for five hours without when there's like twitter and tick tock and you know there's netflix and there's all these wonderful wonderful things”— Andrew Chen
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“i'll just like make up a password and then write it on a piece of paper and then just hide it somewhere for myself and i'll turn off reddit”— Andrew Chen
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Tinder
Tinder
“if you use tinder and you open up tinder and in your city no one else is using tinder”— Andrew Chen
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Match.com
Match.com
“this will make you laugh to him if you if you recall this was like the match.com days and plenty of fish and all these”— Andrew Chen
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Plenty of Fish
Plenty of Fish
“this was like the match.com days and plenty of fish and all these right where where basically you would post your profile”— Andrew Chen
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Discord
Discord
“in other days it's just going on discord and trying to you know grow these communities”— Andrew Chen
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Uber
Uber
“back when it was ubercab llc before it was uber that was a good time to be an advisor”— Andrew Chen
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Instacart
Instacart
“when you look at uber you look at slack now or you look at you know instacart or you look at any of these companies”— Andrew Chen
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Twitch
Twitch
“twitch is such a funny story because justin khan who's himself now like this b2b content creator”— Andrew Chen
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Justin.tv
Justin.tv (inferred)
“justin's project at that point was called justin tv and he basically would just go and wear this backpack that had a laptop”— Andrew Chen
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League of Legends
Riot Games
“it was like very very in a very interesting journey because it was became all about league of legends for a long time”— Andrew Chen
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Patreon
Patreon
“i think twitch and patreon and sub stack and there's a couple of these companies that are now kind of part of the creator economy”— Andrew Chen
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Substack
Substack
“i think twitch and patreon and sub stack and there's a couple of these companies that are now kind of part of the creator economy”— Andrew Chen
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YouTube
YouTube
“very high up on the list the first thing on the list is being a youtuber is actually like the top job”— Andrew Chen
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Axie Infinity
Sky Mavis (inferred)
“just ask axey infiniti and their player population in the philippines is one example”— Tim Ferriss
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Roblox
Roblox
“roblox is very popular in kind of 12 year olds and younger and the idea is you go into the roblox product there are a ton of apps”— Andrew Chen
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Grand Theft Auto
Rockstar Games (inferred)
“grand theft auto is a game i think it costs like 100 it might it might even be 200 million to actually build grand theft auto”— Andrew Chen
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Fortnite
Epic Games (inferred)
“i would say riot games which makes league of legends and fortnite and minecraft and there's a bunch of these”— Andrew Chen
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Minecraft
Mojang (inferred)
“riot games which makes league of legends and fortnite and minecraft and there's a bunch of these that are like like this”— Andrew Chen
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AOL Instant Messenger
AOL
“as a kid maybe you were all about aol instant messenger and that was your thing and then if you were a little bit later it was like xanga”— Andrew Chen
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Xanga
Xanga
“it was like xanga and live journal and those things and then you know then facebook was like a real thing”— Andrew Chen
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LiveJournal
LiveJournal
“it was like xanga and live journal and those things and then you know then facebook was like a real thing”— Andrew Chen
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“facebook was like a real thing and then now people are on on instagram and discord and you know all that”— Andrew Chen
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World of Warcraft
Blizzard Entertainment
“world of warcraft which has been around for a decade people would organize as guild leaders and people would buy and sell characters”— Andrew Chen
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PlayStation 5
Sony (inferred)
“10 million units that are going to be sold of all the various new modern vr units which is approximately the same install base as the playstation 5”— Andrew Chen
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Oculus
Meta (inferred)
“facebook who effectively says hey if you want to play with oculus do you want to play in our metaverse”— Tim Ferriss
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Beat Saber
Beat Games (inferred)
“the things that people are playing though they're playing beat saber they're playing vr chat”— Tim Ferriss
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VRChat
VRChat (inferred)
“they're playing beat saber they're playing vr chat they're playing you know that's the thing that's getting a lot of screen time”— Tim Ferriss
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Angry Birds
Rovio (inferred)
“same for angry birds in ios originally etc etc”— Tim Ferriss
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EVE Online
CCP Games (inferred)
“where a lot of the co-founders worked on a game called eve online for many years ago which is this amazing game where you fly around in these spaceships”— Andrew Chen
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Mainframe
Mainframe (inferred)
“we funded a company called mainframe where a lot of the where a lot of the co-founders worked on a game called eve online”— Andrew Chen
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Ethereum
Ethereum
“vitalik who of course built built ethereum one of the core reasons was he used to play world of warcraft all the time”— Andrew Chen
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Carousel
Dropbox
“they ended up building a bunch of photo apps including carousel and they had a bunch of other projects”— Andrew Chen
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Google Plus
“google plus was a product that google had released in order to compete against facebook with the idea that more users is better”— Andrew Chen
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Google Maps
“they ended up linking the google plus product from the google homepage and from you know google maps and from youtube”— Andrew Chen
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Airbnb
Airbnb
“they were talking about doing things that didn't scale in the beginning of creating airbnb and it's just a phenomenal episode”— Tim Ferriss
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Clubhouse
Clubhouse (inferred)
“how do you 10x you know axey affinity or how do you 10x clubhouse or something like that”— Andrew Chen
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Zoom
Zoom
“slack and zoom and dropbox and all these other tools are really about collaboration”— Andrew Chen
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Robinhood
Robinhood
“it's a really interesting place because of both obviously robin hood as well as open sea and i'm involved in a couple companies”— Andrew Chen
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OpenSea
OpenSea
“it's a really interesting place because of both obviously robin hood as well as open sea”— Andrew Chen
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Stonks
Stonks (inferred)
“one's called stonks which is a kind of a product that aims to be kind of robin hood for for the private markets”— Andrew Chen
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Bringing Down the House
Ben Mezrich (inferred)
“it's like reading bringing down the house and playing blackjack like you need to have enough bankroll to survive a string of bad luck”— Tim Ferriss
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Lambda School
Lambda School (inferred)
“you guys may know um austin allred from lambda school who's one of my favorite people”— Andrew Chen
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Reforge
Reforge
“packaging them into kind of multi-week programs under a company called reforge which you can check out”— Andrew Chen
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Steam
Valve (inferred)
“any any game that you download off of steam or off the internet or whatever is gonna have a bunch of crypto functionality and a wallet embedded”— Andrew Chen
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline (inferred)
“for those who have seen ready player one you've got the kind of darth vader character who's the ceo of this corporation”— Tim Ferriss
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