Launching Twitter Blue with Twitter’s Head of Product Kayvon Beykpour | E1225
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:48.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to this week in Startups and today on the program. |
| 0:53.0 | A startup you may have heard of, it's called Twitter and now that we're in our second decade, |
| 0:57.0 | we're having all these amazing startups that were on the podcast in the early days when they were nascent companies and |
| 1:03.0 | Evilliams and Jack had started along with Biz. |
| 1:06.0 | Twitter will now Twitter is at scale hundreds of millions of users. |
| 1:11.0 | And we noticed something in the last six months, 12 months, something started percolating over at Twitter. |
| 1:18.0 | The product velocity at Twitter accelerated massively. |
| 1:23.0 | Now this is a company that's always been very cautious to protect the core experience in Twitter. |
| 1:29.0 | You didn't see Twitter change all that much and that was for good reason. |
| 1:34.0 | It worked and you had very, very noisy customers like myself who bid on the plava for 10 years and they don't want certain things to change. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, things have started to change and I think in an incredibly positive direction. |
| 1:49.0 | And I dare I say Twitter has gotten its groove back. |
| 1:53.0 | Havon Bakepoor is a large reason for that. |
| 1:56.0 | He is the head of product and he's on the program today. |
| 1:59.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
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