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Chapter Thirty-Two: Snap Inc.
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Heath, Alex. “The cult of Evan: What life is like inside Snap right now” Business Insider, August 1, 2017. http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-employees-prepare-sell-stock-lock-up-ipo-2017-7
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Chapter Thirty-Three: Spectacles
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INDEX
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Academy Awards
Accel Partners
“acquihire” startup practice
Acton, Brian
AddLive
Adler, Ike
Adler, Manny
Airbnb
Amazon
Anderson, Tom
Andreessen Horowitz
Android
Angry Birds
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
API (Application Programming Interface)
Apple
“1984” ad
app revenue
and IBM
iMessage
investments in
iPhone
iPod
iTunes
and Picaboo
Silicon Valley headquarters
stores
and user activity
See also Jobs, Steve
Apple Music
Apple Pay
Apple Watch
Arora, Nikesh
Art of War, The (Sun Tzu)
Auletta, Ken
Bell, Nick
Benchmark Partners
Benioff, Mark
Bezos, Jeff
Bieber, Justin
Bilton, Nick
Binoculars Building
Bitstrips
BlackBerry
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM)
Blaine, David
Bonanos, Christopher
Bonatsos, Niko
boyd, danah
brand advertising
Breaking Bad (television series)
BroBible (website)
Brown, Reggie
“Blue Suit” nickname
at Duke
and Kappa Sigma
lawsuit
origins of Snapchat
personality and temperament
and Picaboo
at Stanford
Browning, Phillippe
BuzzFeed
Byron, Katy
Cameron, David
Caraeff, Rio
Carter, Clarence
Chang, Chi-Chao
Charles River Ventures
Cheever, Charlie
Christensen, Clayton
Chubbies
Cisco Systems
Clinkle
Clinton, Hillary
CNN
Coca Cola
Cohler, Matt
Colao, J. J.
Colbert, Stephen
Coles, Joanna
Collins, Jim
Comedy Central
Conrad, Tom
Constine, Josh
content management system (CMS)
Cook, Scott
Cooley LLP
Cornelius, Robert
Crook, Jordan
Crossroads School (Santa Monica)
Cruz, Ted
Cuban, Mark
Cutler, Joel
Cyborgology (social sciences blog)
Daly, Carson
Davis, Baron
DeGeneres, Ellen
digital dualism
Disney
DJ Khaled
Dorsey, Jack
Dr. Miami (Michael Salzhauer)
Drimal, Chloe
Dropbox
Dubie, Jack
Duplan, Lucas
Dutch Goose (Menlo Park sports bar)
eBay
Ebersman, David
Eggers, Barry
Electronic Arts
Entourage (television series)
ESPN
Etchemendy, John
E*Trade
Facebook
demographics of users
innovation and
Instagram purchased by
interest in Snapchat
launch of
lawsuits
Messenger
Onavo purchased by
Poke app
Silicon Valley headquarters
Slingshot app
Snapchat as rebellion against
Snapchat compared with
Thiel and
WhatsApp purchased by
Winklevoss lawsuit
See also Zuckerberg, Mark
Fagan, Kate
Fairchild Semiconductor
Farley, Thomas
Federal Telegraph
Fenton, Peter
financial crisis of 2008
Flickr
Flurry (analytics platform)
Founders Fund
Fox Studios
funding and investment
Series A
Series B
Series C
Series D
Future Freshman
Gallucci, Dena
Gatorade
Gawker
Gee, Garrett
Gehry, Frank
General Catalyst Partners
geofilters
Gibson Security
Goddard, Julieanna. See YesJulz (Julieanna Goddard)
Goldroom
Goldwyn, Emily
Good Luck America (election show)
Google
app revenue
Googleplex
IPO
Los Angeles office
privacy and
Snapchat compared with
user activity and
See also Schmidt, Eric
Google AdWords
Google Circles
Google Glass
Google Maps
Google Ventures
Grande, Greg
Green, Diane
Greylock Partners
group messaging
Hamburger, Ellis
Hamby, Peter
Hastings, Reed
Hatmaker, Taylor
Hawkins, Billy
Hazelbaker, Jill
Hewlett-Packard
Honan, Mat
Hurley, Chad
Hwang, Sharon
Hwang, Steve
Hyland, Sarah
Hyperloop Technologies
IBM
Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen)
Instagram
Arsenic and
demographics of users
Facebook purchase of
Instagram Stories
investors and funding
launch of
Snapchat compared with
Snapcodes and
Institutional Venture Partners
Intel
Interview, The (film)
Intuit
iOS
James, Nicole
Jenner, Kylie
Jobs, Steve
Jordan, David Starr
Joss, Bob
Jurgenson, Nathan
Justin.tv (Justin Kan)
Kan, Justin. See Justin.tv (Justin Kan)
Kerr, Miranda
Khan, Imran
Kinney, Abbott
Knight, Phil
Kravitz, David
Krishnan, Sriram
Kundera, Milan
Land, Edwin
Landrieu, Mitch
Lane, Randall
Lasky, Mitch
Lee, James
Lee Tran & Liang
Leica camera
Li, Frank
Lieberman, Tressie
Liew, Jeremy
Life Time Value (LTV)
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Line (messaging app)
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