Ben Rubin @benrbn Twitter profile

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

4 years

I’m excited to share a new company I’m building with @brianmeek5 called @slashtalk . /talk is an anti-meeting tool that decentralizes conversations so teams can move faster in an exciting new way. Check it out and apply to pilot here also we're hiring :)

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

To the PM at LinkedIn that thinks their users should be notified with live streams by random LI connections; -are you okay?

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Ben Rubin

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7 years

Flying united back from Chicago this morning. I hope my district wins.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Sure I’ll come to your podcast with famous founders. just need you to fix that little issue that only 10% of the episodes feature women.

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

We founded Life On Air 7 years ago, along the ride we have shown the world how powerful group video chat is w/ Houseparty and how magical live broadcasting can be w/ Meerkat. I’m excited & grateful for @houseparty ’s next chapter with @EpicGames !!

Houseparty Is Joining Epic Games!

Epic is in the House

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

It's been almost a year since my last day at Houseparty. So I found it very timely when my good friend @JamesCurrier reached out to talk about the founder journey over the past 8 years since I left school! I hope you'd enjoy it!!

The Insider Story of Houseparty

The insider story of Houseparty as told by Founder, Ben Rubin, and investor, James Currier. Ben provides a masterclass in product, pivots, and perseverance.

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

2 years

Heyaaa here's a lil EXPERIMENT: What happens if we put people who collect the same NFTs in a video chat together? Think Chatroullete, but for NFT communities. Only one way to find out Introducing ChatWallette - a fun way to meet your frens. Enjoy!

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

We just removed Meerkat from the AppStore 😔 bitter sweet moment seeing it go while celebrating @houseparty

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9 years

6/ And lastly, THIS is just the beginning for Meerkat. --The revolution will be live streamed. 🙌🙏

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Ben Rubin

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10 months

We decided to pull our @townsxyz event in Lisbon next month. Personally I also withdrew from the preceding F.ounders event. I so appreciate leaders in our industry who stand for common sense and decency.

The Information

@theinformation

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Investors YC’s Garry Tan and Sequoia partner Ravi Gupta withdrew from Web Summit after CEO Paddy Cosgrave's comments on the Israel-Hamas war. By @nmasc_

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

So many tweets about VR. Just gonna put it here; the next “platform shift” is under ur nose, pendulum is swinging back from mobile to laptop/desktop. It maybe accelerating due to covid, but it’s rooted in the idea that work/life are getting increasingly mixed in the next decade

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

3 years

Thank you Houseparty, you thought me so much 💔

Houseparty

@houseparty

3 years

Millions of people around the world have used Houseparty to connect with their friends and family since the app launched. Today, we’re sharing that we’ve made the decision to discontinue the app in October. ❤️👋 Read more:

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Ben Rubin

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1 year

Hi everyone!! I'm super excited to share @townsxyz , a near real-time group chat protocol and app designed for online communities to build better hometowns on the internet 🏡🫶 We are bringing it to life today! 👉🏼

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

It's hard to pivot, and hard to keep secrets. Here's for a team that does hard things🙏🏻. --Thank you for the write up @CaseyNewton 🙌🏻

The Verge

@verge

8 years

Meerkat built a new app in secret, and almost 1 million people are using it

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

In 16 hours: my apartment is above this thing.... happening tmrw CRAY #meerkat http://t.co/gpm83ObPmi

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

Today I made a decision to focus whole team on our wild side project Meerkat. --Let's hope this is one of those tweets.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Today in "This is cool but it's 6 clicks x 3 scrolls away":

Zoom

@Zoom

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Ever wonder how great a meteorologist must feel with their weather visuals behind them as they present? Navigate to the advanced tab when you select 'Share Screen' to have slides as your background and add that “wow” factor to your own presentations on Zoom! #ZoomProTip

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Shout out to @evanspiegel — today is one of those days we product people say “damn, Evan nailed it”.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

So cool to see all the different use cases that are emerging on Clubhouse. Just a quick shoutout to my dear friend @joshelman who, for most of houseparty’s 2018 board meetings, had right intuition to push for public audio rooms that people can just listen to 🙌🏻🙌🏻

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

In 19 hours: Join me on stage with @JoshConstine at #TCDisrupt @Techcrunch #meerkat http://t.co/RZIbehEFtZ

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

A little bit buggy, and a lot of work ahead. But these are the moments we built Cameo for http://t.co/Z7Ev8przBt Thank you @kevinjonas 👏 👏 👏

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

Whoa this morning actually started with almost double the streams as yesterday. 😱🚀🚀

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

“Building the Internet’s Living Room” by @houseparty

Building the Internet’s Living Room

Conventional wisdom says all these screens under our noses take time away from meaningful, face-to-face relationships. But what if the…

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

We are looking for a pm who understands how to grow the # of users that fall in love with HP 😍 (vs get more users) 👉

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Houseparty’s product thesis is in it being a substrate of shared intimacy — A focus on # of ppl for (consumer) convo shows how bigcos can miss the entire point. When was the last time u enjoyed a dinner table where 50ppl had equal access to ur attention?

Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic

Facebook is introducing new products to fend off competition

www.theverge.com

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

6 years

Seriously ⁦ @ticketfly ⁩?! Service fee is 42% of ticket price? On behalf of all music lovers and myself; fuck you.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Tiktok should launch American Idol HQ Trivia (RIP) style, where the community gets to show their talent while Cardi B playing judge from the couch. When in season, two pushes a day. audience participate in voting, clapping all virtual. I'd like to produce that actually.

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

OMG SO COOL http://t.co/KepY67F0bX cc @katchkats 🙌🙌🙌

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Ben Rubin

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2 months

When building @houseparty , the goal was always to bring groups of people together We created a dashboard to track this "magic moment"; how many daily users were in parties (green), with 1 person (yellow) and alone (red) I love looking back on these things

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

Just became an American citizen. Grateful for the incredible opportunities, life long friendships and my journey here. And for my amazing partner in crime @asergeeva ❤️

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Ben Rubin

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1 month

I build apps to connect people in the best way possible. With @houseparty , we built an app to bring groups together in the most human way possible through video. With @townsxyz , we're building an app to bring groups together in the most natural way possible through secure chat.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Why are people protesting? - US Police fatally shoots x100 times more than the German Police - People die in US Police custody x100 times more than in UK Police custody - US police is x4 times more likely to use force on Black People than White People

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

3/ twitter's move here shows how significant meerkat has become.

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

Proud of the team for this new look! Houseparty Evolved – Houseparty – Medium

Houseparty Evolved

Be you, be there, be together

medium.com

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9 years

In 9 hours: talking about Meerkat at @demo on stage #meerkat http://t.co/ZbKevOY151

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

@andrewchen Cloud to table

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

Our team has been building in the live video space for almost 3 years now. 4 products, layoffs, shut downs, & finally, the space awakens 🙏🙌👏

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Ben Rubin

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3 years

Quick update on @slashtalk for the 2463 teams who applied; earlier this year we began testing extensively w/ a few dozen teams. During this phase, we've seen that our current product is perhaps too radical for the workplace. We're rethinking /talk & we'll keep you updated soon 🙏🏼

Ben Rubin

@benrbn

4 years

I’m excited to share a new company I’m building with @brianmeek5 called @slashtalk . /talk is an anti-meeting tool that decentralizes conversations so teams can move faster in an exciting new way. Check it out and apply to pilot here also we're hiring :)

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

While I believe Instagram’s intention to make it the safest place on the internet... I would like to remind everyone that in tests, hiding likes meaningfully increased sharing among teens (posting by gen z) which is a mission critical kpi for the team :-)

WIRED

@WIRED

5 years

BREAKING: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has announced that likes will disappear from the platform for US users starting as soon as next week.

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Ben Rubin

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5 months

About two years ago, we started a journey to build better hometowns for online communities. We wanted communities to own their spaces, transparently benefit from their value add, and protect them from de-platforming. Initially, we planned to put user entitlements and social

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Story time. In 2018, a few years after @houseparty launched, we noticed that high schoolers made up a large % of our core user base. To the point that during school hours, traffic was low, and after school it would spike. We took it upon ourselves to figure out how to grow the

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5 months

One of the things I learned from building Meerkat and getting blocked by Twitter is how much open networks matter. I don’t think it’s inaccurate to say that Meerkat paved the way for live streaming as folks know it today.

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

4/ this is a small bump for meerkat - a product built in only 8 weeks by one person

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Ben Rubin

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1 year

I'm convinced we entered a post-web2-networks era. core usage sticking to OEM apps, & new social apps should be treated (& funded) like movies; seasonal, timely, make you feel something new, biz model is upfront "pay to feel". things get different with introduction of (1/2)

Sasha Kaletsky

@SashaKaletsky

1 year

BeReal's weekly US downloads (down ~95% from their 2022 peak) show how difficult it is to keep up a consumer app's growth once you have crossed the chasm An amazing product, team, some great investors, but this shit is hard

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

I immigrated to America 7 years ago, this election was the first one I got to vote as a citizen, and today I’m proud to be an American 🇺🇸❤️ Congrats to @SenKamalaHarris , @JoeBiden , Science and Decency for a fantastic race.

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

1/ We are incredibly proud to have a team that built a breakthrough product that people love.

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

Current dog owner level: I spot good sticks on the street, just walking by myself.

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

Uber’s “Arriving Soon, 1 MIN” is the biggest bubble in tech that needs a needle.

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

“A New Breed of ‘Kat” by @AppMeerkat

A New Breed of ‘Kat

Here’s an email we sent to the team about it

medium.com

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

|LIVE NOW| Interviewing with the @cnn crew. #meerkat http://t.co/51tpH8vgCx

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

7 years

Weed is officially legal in CA today! Excited for us as opioid addiction will drop by 30% in our state, we will send less minorities to prison and taxes will go to help people in need.

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

Congratulations @SimaSistani - games and media on Houseparty, let’s gooo!

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

9 years

. @teroterotero u can reach out 2 me anything and I'll provide data that will help u sort out the meaning of "dying" http://t.co/lcjCIISYPi

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

|LIVE NOW| About to start AMA on PH from TLV http://t.co/7l3fV6Xi4i #meerkat http://t.co/bRXOapPP3U

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

Yay! @houseparty is one of The 50 best apps of the year by @time

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

6 years

SoHo house bought the armory!

SF Weekly

@SFWeekly

6 years

SF Armory Sells for $65 Million

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

OMG http://t.co/SD2G8v3AZb

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

5/ and a sad day for the Twitter developer community who build amazing products that help us connect with each other ( @fabric )

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

We’re excited to introduce Facemail right before the holidays 😍 ” @Houseparty adds Facemail, a way to send recorded video chats to friends” via @Verge

Houseparty adds Facemail, a way to send recorded video chats to friends

It’s like voicemail, but for teens

www.theverge.com

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

|LIVE NOW| talking about Meerkat at @demo on stage #meerkat http://t.co/5oAnwEXkT9

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9 years

2/ Yevvo's (now meerkats) backend tech was built over almost 2 years and is awesome and we will continue to innovate and pioneer this space.

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9 years

If you r building a product and you don't believe there are already x10 other super smart teams working in the same direction, switch idea.

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

The biggest lesson I keep learning as a founder (& seeing others fail) is that ego is the single most expensive thing you'd ever pay for.

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Ben Rubin

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7 years

When your mom tries to pull off your outfit 😆

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

Twitter adding Meerkat to their AppStore keywords :) http://t.co/DTroPi8y5l

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😁😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 http://t.co/nj3dHOGl2a

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

In a way, I kinda feel the same about building communication platforms and its hype cycles. Getting rid of the people who saw “the social network” movie & wanted to become the next Zuck, and it gives us an opportunity to keep making progress while everyone else gets distracted.

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@benrbn

9 years

OMG @jimmykimmel JUST JOINED

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@benrbn

9 years

Hi @dickc ! today @ 6:30am @twitter blocked all outgoing tweets posted via @appmeerkat even though we work well within the Api -any idea why?

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

Meerkat swag at goodwill 😂

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Ben Rubin

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1 year

Sriram and I used to take long walks in SF and jam about new models of communications, growth and empathy. It's a wholesome feeling to close a circle and partner with him and the team!

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

@nikitabier True for teams of 4-6 ppl, but a great PM with a bigger team has 4 jobs in my mind: -Articulate what a winning product looks like -Rally the team to build it -Iterate until they get it right (data/instrumentation/costumers) -Editor: "in the pixels" to edit the work NOT render it

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

So we r trying to do a nice web experience for SXSW…Today we give u the “LineUp" - Gonna MK from SXSW? list yourslef http://t.co/C5eBPVypf9

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

2 months

River network going live today!!

Decrypt

@decryptmedia

2 months

River Protocol Takes on Slack, Discord With Messaging Apps on Ethereum L2 Base ►

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Ben Rubin

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2 months

Somehow it took my apps +100M users and +$100M in venture capital for one of them to collect revenue. @townsxyz had its first paid users sign up over this weekend! 🎉 TownID :) 0x7f3A337e7dACF4F82976b8D904298e28d214984D

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

6 years

I was trained in the IDF in urban counter terrorism + deployed few times. The last thing active shooter scene in urban setting needs is untrained person to engage while civilians run in chaos. Kids will get shot by friendly fire & teachers r in risk to be mistaken for the shooter

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Armed Educators (and trusted people who work within a school) love our students and will protect them. Very smart people. Must be firearms adept & have annual training. Should get yearly bonus. Shootings will not happen again - a big & very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States.

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9 years

In 5 hours: Producthunt Radio w/ @rrhoover @eriktorenberg @carmeldea #meerkat http://t.co/yOvWmfHgxG

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Ben Rubin

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8 years

This FB live TV ad gives a pretty direct nod to Meerkat ❤️️ hilarious 😂

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

9 years

Number #14 on my bucket list: 'get @levie to do magic tricks on your app' --checked 👊👌👍🙌💥🍻 http://t.co/njth23lAkf

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

In 22 hours: Interview w/ @nireyal for Nir and Far blog #meerkat http://t.co/vqpWapxgFw

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

Why you would never want to work for Kanye....

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

9 years

|LIVE NOW| join us @digitas #newfronts #meerkat http://t.co/nBp96pOMMz

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9 years

Thanks @MartinSFP 🙌🏻 12 startups that made an impact in 2015 via @thenextweb

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Ben Rubin

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5 years

Just learned about a magical concept called "EDBITDAM" -- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization & *marketing* -- just remove user acquisition costs, why not?! PS -you should also try my new diet of Eating before carbs, snacks, desserts & appetizers.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

I’ve worked with Sarah for many years. Such an incredible human being. I’m so heartbroken about this vile attack. Praying for her to find Chloe back, and for SF to start healing, it’s getting out of control.

Liz Kreutz

@LizKreutzNews

4 years

SAN FRANCISCO ATTACK: Sarah Vorhaus says she was assaulted at gunpoint by three men while on a walk with her dogs in Russian Hill tonight. She says they punched her in the face and drove off with her 5-month-old French Bulldog, Chloe.

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Ben Rubin

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3 years

Started rolling out pilot.. 🤞🏼😬🤞🏼

Ben Rubin

@benrbn

4 years

I’m excited to share a new company I’m building with @brianmeek5 called @slashtalk . /talk is an anti-meeting tool that decentralizes conversations so teams can move faster in an exciting new way. Check it out and apply to pilot here also we're hiring :)

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

The revolution will be live streamed.

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

Proud to be part of the first beer infused podcast @pkafka !

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Very sweet to see people find joy in houseparty at these times ❤️❤️

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4 years

Spent today’s perch time bonding with the team via HouseParty. We had so much “virtual” fun!

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

Happy 2 c @youtube helping us w/reinstating @katchkats streams & unblocking the account -Meerkat is committed to its 3rd party dev community

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5 years

When a founder says “Crushing it”.

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9 years

In 4 hours: someone is launching a chocolate company. I'm going to the party. 😁🎉🍫🍫 #meerkat http://t.co/rC8u65uUqc

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. —Facebook is shutting down Bonfire, its Houseparty clone for group video chat - The Verge

Facebook is shutting down Bonfire, its Houseparty clone for group video chat

Guess that one didn’t work out.

www.theverge.com

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9 years

|LIVE NOW| live at @bloombergtv #meerkat http://t.co/ne3JHtt3Xv

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9 years

OMG @facebook surveying users about MK. The biggest a-sync company thinks realtime & referring MK -that's exciting! http://t.co/MGjMd3l8N8

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Ben Rubin

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9 years

avg. subscribers per upcoming stream has tripled in the past month. --avg. upcoming posts per user has doubled. Pretty awesome.

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Ben Rubin

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4 years

Why traditional growth accounting is not enough to get a complete understanding of a product's health, and how is it all related to swimming?! -- Really enjoyed chatting with @HarryStebbings on @twentyminutevc , hope you will too! 👉🏻👉🏻

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Ben Rubin

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6 years

Random FB Lasso notification for no reason what so ever. No context, not a msg. — That’s a perfect example of the cheap growth mindset that FB buys now and we the people pay for later on a much bigger scale. Can someone pls tell me how this translates to “time well spent”?

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Ben Rubin

@benrbn

5 years

Some next level bar setting for your long weekend goals

Eric S. Yuan (he / him / his)

@ericsyuan

5 years

@s_abtin @saranormous @zoom_us Hi Abtin, I am the CEO of Zoom. Our NPS score is 72 and we have tons of very happy users. If you can share me in detail, then I can write the code to fix the issue this long weekend. Cheers and have a great weekend.

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Today we give u "upcoming"-10 most subscribed streams of SXSW! & yes, u can subscribe on web, & get pushed in app :) http://t.co/AXQVvLvDxH

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