What I learned from reading How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher.
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I'm not going to work for someone else (0:01)
Early design decisions of Snapchat (7:45)
Evan idolized Steve Jobs and Edwin Land (10:00)
How Snapchat convinced people to download the app (13:00)
How Facebook created the environment for Snapchat to grow (16:00)
The problem of standard (21:00)
Evan on conforming (23:00)
Mark Zuckerberg's first move on Snapchat (27:00)
A great quote from Jeff Bezos (34:30)
Digital Dualism (36:30)
Snapchat Stories (39:00)
Evan's framework for Snapchat and the Internet Everywhere (44:45)
Learning from messaging apps in Asia (50:00)
Brands are not social. People are. (55:00)
Evan's philosophy on the distinction between privacy and secrecy (59:00)
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