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Orkut Büyükkökten

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first: 2016-12-27
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“I think magical things happen when you say hello and when two people connect. And I think technology and social networks in the future should enable us”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Connect and connecting is three easy sometimes and sometimes it's extremely hard. And I think we can use the technology we have to make it a lot easier to connect and relate.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because the desire for companionship is what gets us up in the morning and through the hummer of the days. And we all need to.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely, I think the search for finding people that understands us is the biggest problem that's even more important than the most advanced questions astrophysics.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In an ideal scenario, I would like to be able to walk in to a coffee shop or a bar and my Smart device, whether it's my earrings or my watch or my phone or my belt.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you're in a situation It's like entrepreneurships and launching new products, they always tell you you should not over engineer, over scale architect at any should launch when you're ready. And we thought you were ready, but we weren't expecting so much traffic and demand. And it's kind of scary going to India because it has a mobile user base that's 10 times as much. So you want to make sure that we get it right. So, I guess I learned from my mistake by not building it on a Windows platform, but oh my god,”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We didn't expect to get so much fan base right away. And we even got published on the App Store. The same day when we launched And as a result, our servers fell over for two weeks. We were like busy trying to fix our infrastructure architecture issues. And luckily, it took us only two weeks with Orcut.com, it took us an entire year.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of funny you ask that question because I feel like I repeated the same mistake twice. And I think when you fail, you don't fail as long as you learn from your mistakes. But with Orcid.com, something interesting happened where... Our estimates for growth were not correct, and we got so much demand right away as soon as we launched. And with Brazil, we had all of forecasts and anticipation about how fast we would grow But we were wrong with our estimates. And as soon as we launched in Brazil, We explored and we didn't even have any PR. It was a quiet launch. And what happened was just with word of mouth.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are AI solutions, but the major problem is when they come up with false negative solutions. It's their favorite word.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a problem on every network, and it's important to have the necessary tools in order to fight spam and abuse. As I mentioned earlier, it's not a solution that can scale with support, so you want to count on your community to moderate and help with policing of the content.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Online networks reflect and mirror just real life networks. And if you look at society, there are good people and bad people. I'm with any social network or platform out there, you're going to get users who are going to harass and abuse and spam the ecosystem. And there's a much bigger problem in networks where you have anonymity. And with apps like or services like Facebook or Hello, that's like harder to do because people, when they create a comp, that's actually who they are. And you can also validate people by looking at their friend network.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But not so much stickers. It is true. It's much bigger there. And then Leslie, let's talk a little bit about the idea of harassment, because one of the things that you didn't really have to deal with at ORCID at the beginning was this idea of people creating these cesspools, creating, we recently had the CEO of Reddit on. Obviously, they have big issues around that. Facebook now with this fake news and bullying has issues, and obviously Twitter is plagued by it. How do you look at that phenomena? And what do you do about it? What would you do? What do you think, obviously, I don't think that would happen on your platform because people are talking about food or travel or whatever they're interested in. It doesn't seem like a place where people will start arguing with each other”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“China is interesting because they are early adopters. It has a huge massive market and it has tons of devices that are all connected. And people love to share, and the types of things that they share and the way they use social media apps is actually very different than we do here. Some features that might be popular in China would get no adoptions, for instance, stickers. Like stickers are really popular in communication messaging apps. But if you look at the US market base, the consumers don't care about stickers.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You like it. And what about stuff in China, things that are going on there? Because they have an explosion and all the different WeChat and everything. There's so many different social networks there. What do you see happening there that's interesting?”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I see Snapchat more like a communication platform. That's how teenagers communicate, right? If you're in a movie line getting tickets, you get the Snapchat of the person in front of you and you start snapping with them. And the most common use case is communicating with.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay. So when you look at something like Snapchat, how do you see that trend coming in? Because that's a more controlled trend. There's more, they pick and choose who's on it from a media perspective. It creates a more controlled environment for its users and something where they can express themselves between and among themselves.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mentioned earlier, what is Twitter? Is it social media company or is it a social network? I don't know. That's a big question.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Twitter is interesting. With Twitter, I always see two types of people who like to post on Twitter. One is the Mimi Me type of person who is constantly posting about themselves And then you have the people that share what's out there and popular or trending at the moment. And it has a really interesting topology where your feet consists of people you are following. Which most of the time are not necessarily our friends or people, you know.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can tell that with hello, if something goes wrong, we take full responsibility about it and we communicate it to our community.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Depends on how value you execute it. But as I said, I think the best solutions include a combination of machines and humans.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you're not an editorial company hiring support cannot skill re-well, especially if you have a billion users And you start relying more on technology and machines to do that work for you.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why don't technology companies want to do this? There's two things they don't want to do. One is rely on humans. The second is take responsibility for the problems it creates. They like to say they're a platform, that they're not an editorial platform, they're not a media company, and yet they are indeed a media. It is a media company of a different sort. I think it is.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the best solutions include a combination of machine algorithms and humans. And it's always good to have humans in place that double check things that bubble up to the surface before they get a prorogated to a massive audience.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, right, which Facebook just removed those from the system there because they got pushback from conservatives that it shouldn't be done by hand, which many people think is wrong. It should be done by hand because they can pull out fake news a lot quicker than the algorithm can or the technology can. So what do you do about something like that where fake news? Because it creates a cesspool effect, I think, in lots of these social networks.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is so much happening on the technology side that we lose the human aspect of it. So, for instance, you would get a feed created out of news items and you don't actually know how those items got there because it's an algorithm or a program that generates that feed, not actual humans curating it”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With all social networks, if you arrive at a large scale, spam APUs becomes a big problem. And one of the things you do is you start to fight it back with not a big custom support base, but with intelligent algorithms and machine learning and AI to figure out what's real, what's not. And with social media, a lot of times things are almost over-engineered.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We haven't thought that far yet. Our next goal is to launch in India and we are starting with a beta program in December this month and then we are hoping to launch in January.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“US is a harder market because there are so many social apps out there. And we want to make the app perfect by iterating and having it used in different markets before we come to the US.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then our next goal is to move to India, which It's even like a larger community. If you look at Brazil, they have, let's say, 30 million mobile users. If you go to India, the number goes up to 400 million. And it's really important to be able to test the product, also like the technology infrastructure architecture with larger and larger communities.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are a couple of other reasons we were able to iterate quite a bit on the app before we went to a larger market. And we had around 5,000 users in closed beta. They were able to iterate in a lot of feedback from our user base. And then the next big step is a larger community. And we thought Brazil was a great market because of their history of social network usage and patterns. They are early adopters, they are super friendly, they like trying out new products and they are hyper-connected. We launched in Brazil, and that way we were able to test the system much larger scale and also get a lot of very useful feedback and it trade on it.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were on the Apple Play Store. And Google App Store. In And we haven't done any press in the US, but we launched in Brazil in July, and we got an overwhelming response. And we are getting ready to launch in India. And we are focusing on international launchers for that. Why is that?”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look at our community very closely. We look at quantitative feedback. And when we talk to our users, when we ask them what you think about Hello, There are like three things they tell that's very interesting. One thing is they say it's a happy place. Which is very unusual. A lot of social apps when you go there, it doesn't make you happy. Increasing anxiety. They say they have a lot of fun with it. We put a lot of emphasis on human focus design. Some people call it gamification. We have a lot of elements that you see in traditional video gaming that makes the experience a lot more fun and engaging. And our users also say that they actually meet people who share the same things or passions that they have.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe that connecting is not about how many likes you have or how many friends or followers you have online and people are so used to it. And there's so much depression and anxiety that's linked into social media usage today.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's really easy to reach out to people, for instance, if you are a sci-fi fan and if you're a movie fan and if the latest sci-fi movie comes out that gives a venue an opportunity to reach out to someone interact and talk to them.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've been able to validate that our premise is working and our community has been just amazing. They might make fun of themselves and each other and they're very authentic in their interactions.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you can have a very simple interaction where you wave hello to someone or where you're smiling at them and that starts a conversation very easily and organically. And we also recommend people that you should meet based on your passions, your locality, and also your personality. So we are making it very easy and fun to interact with people.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things we have on Hello is what we call personas. Those are passion communities. When you sign up on Hello, you pick five of your biggest passions. So you can pick like techie, yogolover, foodie, dog lover. And then we customize entire experience around it. So you get to meet people or interact with people who are also into the same things as you are. And we also reflect a lot of real life interactions and bake it into hello. For instance, a lot of times when you see a stranger, you have a very simple gesture like a wink or a smile. And we are able to replicate that on Hello with a micro emoti videos we call expressions.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With hello, we are creating a new experience. We are making social fun again, and we are making it more lightweight and interactive.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's correct. And we create trust within each other by sharing. And we need to be able to share our true selves, and that's how we dissolve the walls between us that separate us.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I could have two friends who are about to get divorced, but they would post a picture on Facebook where they're having a picnic happily. At a park, and I know it's not real, and everyone who's looking at it thinks that it is interesting.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like my life. Anyway, go ahead. What we need is we need to be authentic and genuine with our passions and interests. And that's how we can go down the road of self-love. And when I look at social media today, it's mostly like a highlight reel. And a lot of it is not really putting it.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And if you look at humanity, it's a complex, overconnected network with 7.4 billion individuals. And we have such a huge need. To connect, and connecting is getting harder and harder even though there's a lot of technology that should enable us to connect.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. If you look at the very popular social apps on Facebook, you mostly interact with people you already know. Same thing with Snapchat. Twitter, Instagram, they have a follow-up model where most of the time you don't know who is following you.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lot has happened in the past decade in social, and one of the interesting things that happened was we actually stopped meeting people and making friends through social apps and services. And with Hello, we make it really easy to make friends through your passions. We believe that passions connect you to yourself and people around you, and they defined you. And it's an amazing way to explore content and meet others who are interested.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It wasn't as popular as some of other Google's offerings like YouTube, for instance. I also see YouTube as a social platform.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Snapchat, great for communication. And then you have Google. And Google Plus was really popular in a lot of communities like the photographers who still are active on it.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Facebook has a very core benefit that it provides to its user base and it also serves as a directory. And in order to be successful in social, you have to be able to offer something that sets you apart or differentiates you. And there are a lot of great examples out there, like LinkedIn for professional use. You have Twitter or Instagram that has the following model.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who is online has a profile on Facebook and it's almost like the global directory. And that's where all your high school friends, your college friends, your neighbors, your parents, barristers, everyone you ever met your entire life is on Facebook. And that's how you communicate with them. It's a great communication platform. And it's also a great way to broadcast updates to your friends and family.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You see the first initial signs of social networking and more chat messaging apps like ICQ, IRC, where you have a contact list and you're interacting with your friends. And then the next big wave of social networks actually expose that friends list, the friend graph, where you could look at anyone and they would have a profile and you would also see who they're connected to. And if you look at all the social apps out there, they have the same two basic features that make them viable. One is a profile, like the identity of the person. In some cases, it can be anonymous. And the second one is the topology, which could be the following model, friend model, or a combination of both.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's correct, and that was the biggest mistake we did with Orcid.com not being able to anticipate the overwhelming response we were going to get.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT