https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2017/10/16/facebook-acquires-anonymous-teen-compliment-app-tbh-will-let-it-run/amp/ This is good for Blind right? What say you FB/LNKD?
Huh. Anonymous really? How anonymous is tbh? Anybody know? I'm like 2 decades too old.
Weren't YikYak's numbers off the charts when they raised with Sequoia? I heard 5 Mil downloads, 3 mil DAU. 30 minutes a day. But they crashed and burned so fast. Granted tbh has a lot of elements stopping trollage *(making up words here) but young audiences move through new apps so quickly, I'd be worried about retention.
I miss the good old days of Yikyak
Doesn't really matter if they fail at this point. They're pretty much set personally for life regardless.
Blind raised a $6 mil series B not too long ago
I vote that we buy Blind. @jeffweiner are you listening?
I don't think there is anything Blind really ads to LI.
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Shouldn't Blind be worried?
that facebook will blow up tbh and take over their domain?
I think they are targeting two completely different segments. If Facebook gets serious about "facebook for work" maybe. But they have very little interest in anonymous anythings. I heard they got rid of their internal anonymous group called fbanon.
Just asked my sophomore daughter about it. She said everyone just signed up, scrolled through it "for, like, five minutes" and never used it again.
I'm friends with the founder and his data says otherwise.
Well ya of course your buddy isn't going to say his product is a dumpster fire
This is a great move in that teens do like these kinds of apps. However, these kinds of things have been around for a long time and people always out age them. I'm curious to see what happens with this.
Because it is a positive social app that is edgy and innovative I think this plays into their corporate responsibility brand
we're all way too old to know if a teen app is gunna have staying power
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Under $100 Mil. Didn't these guys like JUST launch?
The app, yes. The company is on its like 8th product in like 5 years though (they scrapped the previous ones)