11. Competition
Companies Chat limit Network How to chat
Airtime 6 people Contacts or Facebook Rooms
Google Hangout 10 people Google + Call
Rounds 12 people Facebook Send Code
FaceTime 1 person Contacts Call
Israeli tech firm
yevvo – streamed to any other users
air – invite only - close circle of friends
meerkat – tweet to followers
millions of users
lasted a year and a half
Twitter aquires Periscope for 100 M
most people simply don’t want to broadcast themselves regularly.
Meerkat users might launch a broadcast a handful of times, but the distance between each broadcast grew larger every time
a week between broadcast six and seven, a month between seven and eight.
not daily habit
Returning several times a week, inviting friends
team of 20, couldn’t scale – hired senior engineer from Twitter
CEO doesn’t know
Laid off employees in Israel
doubling size of HQ in San Fran
Haven’t thought yet about how to make money