Best of Panic With Friends Podcast: Panic With ME (Howard)... The Stocktwits Story

Panic with Friends – Investing for Profit and Joy

Good morning.

On last week’s episode I discussed how I started and built Wallstrip. These episodes are me covering my own projects/stories as well as those of the the companies I’ve loved and the products I’ve used throughout Web 2.

In today’s re-run Knut and Riley join me as I’m back in the hot seat covering the lessons learned from building Stocktwits.

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For more details on today’s conversation read on below…

Guest: Me!

Profile: Entrepreneur & Investor, GP at Social Leverage

Where to Find Him: LinkedIn, Twitter

Show Notes:

• Introduction (0:22)

• Historic look at Web 2 (1:58)

• Starting Stocktwits (3:25)

• Why I didn’t wait (5:34)

• Creating Bloomberg on Twitter (6:54)

• Building the team (7:28)

• Coming up with the name (8:03)

• Raising money (9:24)

• The first version (12:04)

• Creating the branding (12:16)

• The cap table (15:57)

• The cash tag (18:16)

• Building around twitter (25:08)

• Building on our own (26:02)

• Early Web 2 lessons (29:56)

• Thoughts on AI (32:20)

• Valuing deals (33:56)

• Stocktwits culture (34:28)

• Predicting the future (37:57)

• Wrapping up (39:01)

• Closing thoughts (42:58)

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