Will Leavitt

Growth PM @Google | Prev: monetization strategy @TikTok_US | Startup advisor | @NorthwesternU alum | 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@omooretweets Social commerce is about to (already?) get flooded with AI content. Might work great short-term, but long-term viewers are just going to retreat back to authentic creator communities for genuine recommendations.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

My friends will pay a ~2x premium on a nighttime, short ride (<$30) to be in driverless car because of the personal safety benefits.

Recently rode in one myself, and was blown away. Excited to see where this goes!

[Zach Coelius @zachcoelius]

It is fascinating how many of my friends massively prefer robot taxis vs humans in SF - especially women.

People are significantly underestimating the adoption as they expand availability and distribution.

This is going to be another started slow and blows up phenomena

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Stripe, live: https://t.co/CtyT1XIhrL.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

Omw to buy the Quest 3

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Education will never be the same... 🤯

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

Jim Clark’s MyCFO_V2

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

Preliminary driven by disposable income, US ARPU is a strong multiple of other regions (e.g., 11x APAC).

So, global monetization is a numbers game. Something that WhatsApp very much has (2.7B)

[Rihard Jarc @RihardJarc]

Get ready for some great years of growth at $META because of WhatsApp.

There are so many product releases and monetization options being opened lately at WA.

Also love how strong WA is in India where a ton of future growth will come from.

Expectations are too low IMO.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

RIP

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

Some big news today. “Wake Me Up” by Avicii is the first song by a Swedish artist to break 2B streams on Spotify.

It’s so amazing to see Avicii’s influence and remarkable work continuing to bring joy to so many around the world.

Kudos to @AshPournouri for believing before anyone else.  💚🇸🇪

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@AdamSinger Keeping the media theme, a livestream studio for social commerce could be super cool here.

Hardest thing for merchants is going live for the first time, and camera / hardware or knowledge barriers could be overcome through centralized collaboration.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@michaelmiraflor Just saw a consultant do this on his resume with his main client. It was a sexy name, but so misleading.

Massive 🚩

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@rmranmo Give it a quick read! Could be inspiring haha

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@rmranmo Very much reminds me of “The lifecycle of software objects” short story in Exhalation by Ted Chiang!

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@rex_woodbury However, adoption of the sport has also created positive health and social outcomes.

Curious if the benefits, such as improved fitness and thus reduced long-term healthcare costs, can outweigh the short-term injury costs.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@towheretobegin @samuel_spitz Well, I would assume that item count is likely a better indication of usage, which itself is correlated with repurchasing (and would further drive the market).

And, market value can still be skewed by high-priced secondhand items (e.g., luxury purses / watches).

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

Hot take: Rooms aren’t named like this so more time is spent bumping into XFN colleagues around the office to encourage impromptu dialogue / creativity.

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

Hot take: This is the best way to name rooms and every other idea is bad.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

Now there’s no need to imagine your public speaking audience in their underwear…

An AI / VR use case I’ve never considered!

[Roberto Nickson @rpnickson]

Using ChatGPT to improve your social skills at a party.

A VR developer named Tore Knabe created a party simulation featuring ChatGPT-driven NPCs, including a 'coach.'

There are some interesting use-cases here for improving your cognitive abilities:

‣ Practice a presentation in front of an audience.
‣ Simulate a job interview.
‣ Practice difficult conversations.

...the list goes on.

As mixed reality devices and other hardware improves, paired with AI, it could even simulate gestures and body language.

You could train models specific to the simulation as well.

Wild times.

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@stephmui And it’ll stay that way until businesses recognize that it’s more than just a cost center

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

As an active alumni interviewer, I think that you can learn more about an applicant from a 20 min conversation than from their resume.

Also, existing automated interviewing solutions, such as HireVue, are limited.

So, maybe college admissions should use AI to enhance their operations, but not replace humans entirely?

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@MartinGTobias Pivot = change of direction

Hail Mary = same direction, 100% of resources

[Will Leavitt @LeavittWill]

@FluentInFinance Travel abroad, get jet lagged, stay “jet lagged”