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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by sama on Friday March 18, 2016 @04:31PM (#11314719)
The thing we look for the most is a small number of users that are super, super engaged with the product.

Most new social networks we see point to their top-level growth of new users. These usually eventually fade.

What you want instead is something that starts with a small number of users that use it many times every day. Snapchat is a good recent example of this phenomenon.

Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by mahyarm on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:00PM (#11314986)
Same with

- pinterest: some collection of moms in middle america

- twitter: SF Tech & SXSW

- facebook: ivy league colleges -> colleges -> high schools -> the world

- snapchat: so-cal teenagers