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Panic With Friends with ME (Howard).... The Stocktwits Story

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Howard Lindzon & Howard Lindzon
February 09, 2023

Panic with Friends – Investing for Profit and Joy

Good morning.

A few weeks ago I discussed how I started and built Wallstrip. I plan on doing more origin stories over the next year. I’m covering my own projects as well as those of the ten or fifteen people from the companies I’ve loved and the products I’ve used in Web 2.

In today’s episode I’m back in the hot seat covering the lessons learned from building Stocktwits. Knut and Riley join me as we talk about how we built Stocktwits.

You can listen to the podcast here on Spotify or Apple podcast and now all the episodes are on my YouTube channel as well. You can click subscribe on any of these channels and get the podcast alert each week.

You can also listen right here on the blog:

Downtown Josh Brown on the Past, Present, and F... by Panic with Friends - Howard Lindzon

I couldn’t be more excited to have my good friend Downtown Josh Brown on the show! Josh and I go way back to the early, early days of Stocktwits. He’s built what’s probably the biggest financial media brand outside of CNBCq and has managed to thrive amidst the people who like to hate on people who are doing well on social media; so I’ve got lots and lots of questions about the finance industry and media. We dig a bit into AI, crypto, web2 survivors, and where we’re at with web3. You’re going to really enjoy our conversation.

https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/STKT8917579627

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 (00:22)

  • Historic look at Web 2 (01:58)

  • Starting Stocktwits (03:25)

  • Why I didn’t wait (05:34)

  • Creating Bloomberg on Twitter (06:54)

  • Building the team (07:28)

  • Coming up with the name (08:03)

  • Raising money (09:24)

  • The first version (12:04)

  • Creating the branding (12:16)

  • The cap table (15:57)

  • Building around twitter (25:08)

  • The cash tag (18:16)

  • 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)

Related:

Panic With Friends with ME (Howard)....A Look Back at My Wallstrip Journey | Howie's List

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Host: Howard Lindzon | Producer: Knut Jensen | Researcher: Pete Weishaupt Disclaimer: All information provided is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal or tax advice, or an offer to buy or sell any security. For full disclosures: https://www.howardlindzon.com/c/disclaimer

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