Ted Sarandos Quotes

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

Think of any news site on the web that sells subscriptions; AOL has four times as many people as the largest subscription service. We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content.

While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Twitter needs to continue being a good listener and recognize that the service has been redefined by lots of people, tweet by tweet, but also come up with its own priorities.

Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

There was a lot of dialogue between the people who were developing Flickr and their users to get feedback on how they wanted Flickr to develop. That interaction made the initial community very strong, and then that seed was there for new people who joined to make the community experience strong for them, too.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too - and a lot of companies either don't know how or forget to act on it.

We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

In the early days, it was enough for Imgur to have a team that was focused on building product and engineering. But I realized early on if we were going to be successful, we needed someone who would be a bridge between the company and community.

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

There are lots of new products and new services making adding content easier. But there's not many people on the other side helping users digest that content.

I love meeting our users and partners and talking to them about how ClassPass has made an impact.

There are major benefits to building a game once and improving it over a long period of time based on user feedback and behavior. It's kind of depressing to have to build a game once, take all the user feedback, and then spend the next 3 years building another game.

If a whole bunch of users want a specific feature, and we think that feature is pretty cool, too, that that's just what we'll do.