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Season 3, Episode 10: Tencent

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The Conference of the Gods - What's the Landscape?

Ten cent is about to hit this very same cliff where they have their moment where they go, oh, we need something unmobile. So a group of students in canada, at the university of waterloo, they see this, and they're like, oh, cool,. We'll build a mobile messenger ap. And they call it kick. K i k still around to day, raises a series a from fred wilson, union square ventures, gets a bunch attraction, starts adding users like crazy. Before this, you could have aps on the phone, but like, here was no way to know, like that something happened in the ap. So a messenger ap was useless

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