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  1. “Oh man, lots of crazy stuff. Gifts in virtual reality, gifts in your glasses, gifts outside of computers, gifts on paper, you know, a whole new kind of search engine that no one's ever seen before, where everything moves, which resembles all of life. Just think of what you look at in the world and how that actually behaves in your real life. That's how we want the internet to behave. Everything shouldn't move. And so we're working on it”

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  2. “Yeah, I mean, my parents had me send them a little explainer to send to their friends because they want to use them more often. And I think we're on the cusp, I won't lie. But I think it's our job to make it really easy for everyone to grasp and not just like yourself and myself, everyone who works at Gify or who sort of like a first order citizen of the internet.”

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  3. “Yeah, I think, you know, we still have scale to go. We're big and we're the biggest player in the space. But, you know, it's still something my parents from time to time have some trouble with. There's a giant group of people out there that don't know what gifts are still, that don't know how to use them. And our job is to make sure they can. And they make sure that's easy. And so you want to make gifts as fluid as what once was making a phone call.”

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  4. “Oh my goodness, this is tough because I haven't had a lot of time to read that much interesting things these days. I read deal book pretty much every morning from New York Times. It's just sort of their finance catch-up newsletter. I do that a lot. I catch the information and email a bunch. That's pretty good. I honestly use Twitter a lot to get my news. I figure if it's really important, it'll find me through the Twitter list that I've got. Those would be the three.”

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  5. “Oh man, my favorite gif is I have to send you a link to it. I can show you what it is. But I think if you Google my name and favorite GIF, it comes up somewhere. But it is these two women at a concert. They're at like a rave slash EDM concert. And they're just in the audience. And they are just having the wildest, best time of their lives. And you can just see them losing their minds. And they're just doing all these funny dance moves and sort of facial expressions. And they're just really into the music. And for whatever reason, for me personally, like every time I watch that GIF, I find something new. And I just think it's hilarious and amazing.”

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  6. “Thanks, Steve. Great. I have a lot of hair. So the book goes into the hair routine. Nothing. I use shampoo and then I dry my hair with a towel and that's it. It is pretty much simple.”

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  7. “My favorite book and why is East of Eden, John Steinbeck, and I don't even like John Steinbeck novels, but I like this. Which is crazy because it's just an epic story, it's beautiful, it has highs and lows. It talks about the depression. It talks about being a businessman. It talks about family. It talks about all these important things that touch our lives. I don't know. It just moved me when I read it. I've never forgotten it.”

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  8. “No, that's actually good for us. We actually power that button. We power the gift button inside of Twitter. We power the gift button in Facebook. We power gifts in Slack Yeah, that's been part of our strategy all along is make sure that people can find the gifts they want wherever they are. And so, yeah, we work closely with all these platforms to pull that off.”

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  9. “Search behavior and that intent and monetize it much like Google does for their own search more from an information standpoint, same idea. And so we're looking at the idea of turning gift search into something that can be contextual, that can be highly relevant, highly targeted, where you're getting delivered content against a query that is directly related to what you're looking for but may have been paid to be put there. And it's just basically a paid search model. And as we grow to become the leader in, I guess we are the leader in GIFs, then we have a really big opportunity to monetize that search behavior. And that's our path to making sure that we're going to be a global profit making business.”

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  10. “Oh, yeah, it's super simple. So we've been really careful to grow our brand in a deliberate way. We've made sure that we are the number one brand in gifts. We're the brand that not only platforms trust, but also content owners and IP owners trust. We work very carefully with both sides and closely with both sides to make sure they're getting what they need out of the platform we're building. That means they get the right gifts at the right place at the right time. That means content owners make sure they're getting the right distribution to the right audiences and they get the benefit of all the technology we're building to create and distribute gifts at large. But if you think about the platform we're really building at its core, it is a search engine. It's a giant giant search engine for culture, probably the best and biggest there is. And so if you are searching for what happened on the video music awards last night and you're on Giffey and you're looking for that content, you're looking for it inside of Twitter, you're looking for it inside of Facebook, you're also looking for it on Giffey.com or on our app. There's an opportunity for us to take that.”

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  11. “Thank you, Steve. Another great investor. He's a good guy if you ever get the chance. You should definitely hang out with him to grab some coffee with both Spencer and Steve. All right. So how do we have this global icon turn into a global profit-making leader? Is that what it was?”

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  12. “Could you go to road trip with someone that you're in the room with and at the end of it not want to ring their neck? And that's been a pretty good litmus for making sure everyone gets along and it's good. Yeah, I think everybody worries that at scale, you know, if we have to grow to several hundred people, can you maintain that? I think you can. I just think you have to do it carefully. And I think if you give everyone here the information, the power, and the knowledge to make those decisions, then they will definitely stand by that because they want to work at a great place too. So everyone will sort of be bought in to do that. I think it's really more about empowering everyone else to understand the culture and try to expand it.”

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  13. “I mean, we're definitely picky about the folks we bring in. So, like, we have this sort of casual thing we called the road trip test, which is like, would you be able to go on a road trip with someone?”

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  14. “Which is a lot of fun. I think we're like the best group of weirdos you could ever put together. And we really, really been passionate about maintaining that. You can be yourself. You can be kind of out there. Everyone's got funny jokes. Everyone's got funny points of view. And then we've also made sure that people are able to sort of foster their ambitions and their interests. And they are widely varied, which is great. You know, we have people who have masters in journalism, masters in film studies. We have artists. We have musicians. Obviously, we have engineers and hackers and technologists, but we even like Tiffany, one of our editors, is also a host on TCM, right? She's like literally a TV host for classic film. We have a couple of folks who are featured on Spotify with great bands. So Danny Newman has a band called Slymoth on Spotify. We go see shows. Yeah, I think we've just been able to make sure everyone feels and is able to be open and pursue everything.”

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  15. “Yeah, I think it's doable as long as everybody's professional. It's something we've been able to do pretty well. And everyone was an adult. And so, you know, we've all had jobs before and we know what it's like to work hard and we know what it's like to work for something. And in many cases, we've actually all worked together at one point or another. And so this wasn't like a complete blind faith leap. We'd done this. I'd worked with Alex before. I'd worked with Dan and Randy, a few other folks here. And they worked with other folks they brought on. So we all knew this was something we were open for and would work really well. And so first, you know, we got a lot of our friends in. And that made it really easy. We knew each other already. We had previous working relationships. We sort of knew everybody's strengths. We knew how to work together. And that was awesome. And then, you know, from that, we all have very interesting, funny interests. A lot of us have philosophy backgrounds. A lot of us have art and media and tech backgrounds. Some of us are designers and previous lives and things like that. So there's a lot of creativity in GIFI, a lot of creativity. And then everyone sort of like oddball goof.”

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  16. “Oh man, so Alex talks about this too. And we've basically been very, very lucky but also very deliberate to put together a really excellent group of weirdos and creative folks and designers and everyone just has a very, really awesome, interesting, and varied background. First and foremost, because we hired our friends, which is a lot of fun. We've worked with a lot of great people.”

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  17. “Increasingly mobile, and we have more and more channel fragmentation. People are going to be looking for the most efficient way to express themselves maximally, and GIFs are really that amazing sweet spot of making a point but having to do very little to get it across.”

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  18. “I don't think we intend to, we don't want to eliminate any modes of communication. I think we enhance and we're additive. But I really think where the either or happens is in context. And maybe this is another part of why GIFs. We talked about our natural predisposition. We talked about what the market dynamics are like and the penetration of technology. But the other thing is if you think about the modes of consumption, if you look at all the feeds and all the channels and all the social networks and all the new apps and all the new broadcast methods and all the new sort of over-the-top messaging and VOD, we are consuming a giant amount of content at a pretty rapacious pace. And so there's not a lot of time for stuff. And in addition, we're always mobile because our phones are in our hands. And so I think gifts are not necessarily the elimination of text. It's really the efficiency of expression. And that's what's happening when you send a gift like you sent the little guy dancing. You might have been in front of a keyboard. It might have been easier to write. But as we are...”

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  19. “Much faster. You always pick up the image faster. And so these things being true, GIFs sort of came to the fore because there's this quick, easy hit of visual information and this visual information is inundating us because now there's movies and TV shows and snaps and Instagram and all sorts of other types of content floating around the web. We can wrap all these things up into these tropes and these little pieces of self-expression that really travel fluidly throughout this web that we've got this highly visual now. So part of it has to do with technology and part of it has to do with our predisposition to be visual.”

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  20. “And so you see screens in everyone's hands again, even in developing markets. And as a result, that means it's very, very easy to move imagery. Imagery became cheap. And so now you've suddenly seen this whole visual renaissance on the web because the market dynamics are such that it's very, very fast, easy, and effective to move images. And then the reason why we're going to prefer images is because basically we're biologically wired for it. We are visual animals, first and foremost. You know, before we were writing in letters and characters, there were drawings on caves, drawings in the sand, paintings and such. And that's because we had to be able to distinguish, you know, predator from prey. We had to distinguish objects in the foreground or the background. It was something that was vital to our survival. And that's something that still lives with us today. It's also true that we process images something like 60,000 times faster than words. If you think about it, like read the definition of a hamburger and then just look at a hamburger and which one of those will you understand?”

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  21. “That's why illuminated texts were so rare, are so sought after, are so desirable, so expensive. Then you move forward a little bit and you get into the modern age of printing. Still, it's black and white because it's cheaper. Then you get into technology and processing speed is slow. Transport cost is high. Bandwidth is slow. Cost of technology is high, right? To buy a computer in the 70s was kind of a crazy thing to do, to buy a computer in the 80s was still expensive. Even in the 90s, I remember my computer, I saved forever to buy that thing. Processor speed was also slow. And so again, imagery was hard to move. And that's why the initial web was very textual. And that's why Google was so good at indexing stuff because it was all filled with words and not with images. Then you fast forward to today and you've got processing speeds going through the roof. You've got bandwidth penetration very, very prevalent throughout the world, even in emerging markets. You've got technology penetration also high because affordability is down. Everyone can, well, not everyone, but many people can afford smartphones and mobile phones.”

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  22. “Harry, you're 20, you're plenty cool. You're cooler than me, man. I got gray hair in my beard, so you win. So why gifts why now? We'll start with the why now part first. So a lot of reasons for why now are technology and economic space. The market dynamics for moving imagery for the last 50 years have been really, really shitty. It's been very, very expensive to move an image from point A to point B. And even if you go 100 years back or 200 years back, it was still very expensive. Market dynamics prohibited imagery from being widely circulated because of how pricey it was. And that's what the printing press afforded people just without the images. The printing press happened. It was a system. It was repeatable. It was consistent. It was replicable. So you can make a book happen. You could put it in a binded object and you could shift that thing around the world. It was really, really easy to do, relatively speaking. But if you wanted to put an image in there, then you had to like carve it out. You had to use color, which is more expensive. You had to lay out more paper, which is more expensive. Suddenly it became prohibitive to move imagery.”

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  23. “I think the writing's on the wall. I think if you're telling yourself to keep going too much, you're like, you're maybe in denial. I think that's what I was doing a little bit, which is like, oh, no, the beetle, we could just get around this corner. If we could just do this one more thing, if I could just get this one more deck done, you know, this VC is totally going to give us money. Oh, we'll totally be able to raise around. This thing's going to start. You know, when you start dealing in too many what-ifs, you probably know it's done. I think that's a good signal. And it's not to say that your idea isn't great. It's not to say that you didn't put in a lot of hard work. It just might not be the right time, the right place, the right fit. There's always a way to come back around. This startup in particular dealt with personal data. I wanted to turn people's personal data into currency and let them spend like money. I was not the first to try this. I've not been the last. I think it'll come around again and again and again. So there's always more opportunity.”

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  24. “To get it done. The second is obviously no one to stop. I would actually say with Moyural, I stopped a little too late. I could have done that a little earlier. How do you know why?”

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  25. “It's something I tell everybody, honestly, is that you better love the thing you're going to build because if you don't, you're going to find out really quickly or you're going to find out way too late and it's going to be upsetting. It's going to be sad. But it's also going to be a big frustration and a waste of time because you would risk all this stuff. You'd risk this time, this cash, this energy to just be met with adversity and then give up versus, you know, if you love it, you're willing to go through hell to figure it out. And you could be objective still, which is like, if you go through hell, Winston Churchill likes to say keep going, but honestly, you know when to give up and you know like you're cool with adversity, you're cool to do the things that are difficult and it doesn't bother you, but you know that you like I can't be homeless forever. That's not sustainable. It's not the right move, but you just know in your heart like when it's time to be done. But if you start with like a false sense of surety, it's going to catch up with you pretty quick. So one is, you know, love what you do and be passionate about it and make sure that you'll drive hard.”

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  26. “Against another guy named Joshua Schachter. He built delicious. And it took out ads against John Borthwick, Josh Auerbach, who else, some guys at first round, I think some guys at first mark. Yeah, just anybody in New York I could get a hold of and anyone I knew who wrote online. And that wound me up on the front page of a lot of main tech news sites, which was awesome. And so that all pointed at my registration page for Voyero. So we got like 50,000 signups. Then, you know, lo and behold, we turned the service on and it goes great. And everyone's talking about it. We're on CNBC. We're in New York Times. Nashville Tech Crunch and Gadget, Gizmoto, Harvard Business Review, Newsweek. I mean, it was crazy. It went great. And then it didn't because it's a startup. So it was a lot of fun. I learned a lot. And then I had to shut it down because honestly, we couldn't raise the money. It was very expensive for me to fund personally.”

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  27. “The main screens, all that kind of stuff. So we had that built. So then I had this package that I could go merchandise. So then I used that and I networked like crazy to try to find people and I found a couple of really nice fellows that were distributed. One was in California, another one was in Ohio. And we got together and we decided we wanted to build this. And so we did. And we built this product. And it was pretty incredible to see it come to life. It was pretty incredible to see it, you know, those designs move, to see everybody interacting, to see everybody using it internally at least. And then it came time to launch it and I had to get people's attention and I didn't know what to do. So this was like phase two of the hustle. Phase two was I started taking out search ads against prominent VCs and reporters in tech so that when they Googled themselves, they'd get an ad from me and it worked astonishingly well and it wound me up on the front page of TechCrunch. This is when MG Siegler was still a reporter at TechCrunch and I took out an ad against him.”

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  28. “Rent, but I didn't have anything to rent, so I paid that rent into a savings account and built my own fund. At the same time, I'd crash on couches. I slept to the office a bunch. I did sleep outside a few times in New York. I showered at the gym and do all the stuff that made it look like I had a home, but I didn't. And I lived out of a messenger bag and the goodwill of a lot of good friends and the office and some other things. And after that, I built up a fund that allowed me to build my first startup. And I used that cash to recruit a team. So I put a team together. I used that cash to help design a product, to design the product. I used the cache to help launch it. And I used it to help do a little bit of clever PR. And so then the next thing was, okay, I have cache. Who do I get? So then I start working with a buddy of mine in AdLand to design the startup. So we designed it. I should say the product. And it was called Voyural and it has a stream and it had login and all this stuff. So we worked on all the flows, the user flows, the user pages.”

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  29. “Nothing. And I think I have this amazing idea of a thing that I should build. I realized, well, I'm a big believer of sort of put your money where your mouth is. And part of my motivation for doing this, for doing this hustle that I'm about to tell you about, is because I saw a lot of people in AdLand criticizing technology, criticizing new products, criticizing startups or betas or alphas. And when I dissected all of it, it was very clear to me that those people who were criticizing really hadn't done anything. They hadn't built anything themselves. They hadn't taken a great risk. And it felt weird to have someone criticize these objects and not have done it themselves. So I'm thinking, listen, if I want to be in tech and I want to be in startups and I want to do this and I want to have an opinion on somebody else's hard work, I better have done it myself. So not knowing anyone, not having a team, not knowing what to do, but just having an idea, I actually gave up my apartment and I went homeless for a year. And instead of quitting my job, I kept my job and I paid rent like I would pay.”

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  30. “A couple of other different sort of apps and platforms. I happened to pawn an idea I really wanted to execute. I was very passionate about it. It was called Voyal, a really bad name, by the way. That's one of the mistakes I learned quickly. It was a cool pun, but a terrible name. And it was a combo of Voyeur and URL. And it allowed you to look at everything everyone was looking at on the internet. As long as you installed our plugin, you could sort of voyeuristically look over the shoulder of everybody looking at stuff online. What I did was, because I didn't know anyone in startups, because I didn't know anyone in VC or seed funding or anything for that matter, I did a lot of research and I came to the conclusion that I'm screwed.”

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  31. “Oh man. All right. So the hustle stories are interesting and fun and ridiculous, but I don't get to tell them often, so I'm kind of excited that Spencer sort of leaked it a bit. I got the Giffi because I got there through like six or so, seven years of startups and doing stuff and making things and breaking things and failing of things and starting again and trying again and failing and getting a team together and then pissing people off and then making people happy. But the first thing they ever did was I wanted to start a startup and I didn't know how to do it. Tech was really new sort of in New York and I had always been a fan of the web and internet and technology and sort of what people have been doing to hack technologies together. And that was something I specialized in at an ad agent. And I was working there for quite some time. And I would come up with digital products for our clients. And I kept using them as ways to experiment with building. So I built a video game. I built a VR kind of thing. I built a check-in type object like kind of Foursquare based. And I built...”

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  32. “Thanks for having me here, Harry, and thank you as well to Spencer. Great investor Giffys, and always a good referral. So I'm glad we connect. Thanks.”

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