Sam Yagan Quotes

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

I think there are a lot more people that don't use Pinterest in the world than do use it, so for most people, that first experience is really, really important. I think feeling really close and in touch with that first user experience is pretty basic to making it better every day.

I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there.

Amassing a user base is a lot harder than one might think.

My definition of product-market fit is you are drowning in demand - your product is being used by so many customers that you cannot handle all the new people knocking at your door!

There were dozens of dating apps when Bumble came on the scene, but they weren't able to attract critical mass in a young professional group.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.

What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.

WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.

WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well.

OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.

It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.