Badoo - 新しい出会い

Instead of other places that are perhaps in the past. Silicon Roundabout is I guess the U. Figuring out when to start really pushing monetization. In terms of your second question about the startup scene in London and in Europe, I think some people would be really surprised to see actually how vibrant it is.

Right, like how many can you name, off the top of your head. I also think Shaker is really interesting because it is a different approach which is refreshing. That only goes so far, at some point you have to start making money.

Badoo - 新しい出会い - So all the monetization elements are woven throughout the site…. So one of the components of the site is definitely for dating, or at least for meeting new people.

Jessica, could you tell us a little bit about how the company got started? Sure, we got started in 2006, originally as a social network, so very similar to how everyone talks about social networks today. But very quickly, Facebook came along and like with many other social networks, we realized we needed to either change things up or basically get quashed. So what we did was we looked at what we thought was missing. Great and so how large is the network now? Great, and so how do you guys handle monetization? And what is your strategy there? We have micropayments that help you rise up in search results, get more visibility, and things like that. But the core of the site is free to use. And the interesting thing is we feel very very fortunate to have hit well over a hundred million in our terms of run rate and so forth. So we spend most of our time looking at how do we improve the product for users? And so what do you think is like the most interesting feature of the service? What I like about it is just the flexibility ability it gives you, right. Now, I know some start-ups have been trying to tackle a similar space from actually a 3D perspective. A company called The Shaker won the TechCrunch Disrupt award this year. Could you tell me, how are you guys doing with more people moving into the space? I also think Shaker is really interesting because it is a different approach which is refreshing. From our perspective, we want to give you something that brings you into the offline world, right. And so what we want… we are a lot more visually driven perhaps than Shaker in the sense of its not avatars and so forth. Okay, now I know you guys took a big funding round a few years ago. Have you guys… do you still need more money or is the monetization of the service funding itself now. No, I think we are in a very nice position in that we can entirely fund our own expansion with the profits that we made. Could you tell me a little bit about the experience of trying to, to gain new users from Facebook. So, even when the drop initially happens, I think there certainly was worry internally, what does this mean. But it actually gave us the opportunity to really go in and do analysis of what did those Facebook app users mean to the business. That only goes so far, at some point you have to start making money. How did you guys tackle that issue. Figuring out when to start really pushing monetization. And how early in the user experience do you sort of edge them urge them to make a purchase. So all the monetization elements are woven throughout the site…. A lot of things that are done today and particularly on mobile apps, to me are really surprising because they strike me in some ways as almost back to punch the monkey style. And from a user experience that is actually taking you at least for a few moments outside of that app and outside of that experience and is that necessarily a good thing at the end of the day. So one of the components of the site is definitely for dating, or at least for meeting new people. If somebody is lonely and they want to meet new people, Badoo can be a great place for them to go to do that. But what er… did you guys experience the same problem of of churn that most dating sites have. And maybe you end up meeting someone who is a friend. Maybe you end up meeting someone who has something in common with you. And so on and so forth. It really is, what is it that you want at the given point in time that you are interacting with someone. So it kind of can be all things to all people. Just look at the number of European pop bands that have crossed over the US. Right, like how many can you name, off the top of your head. Start ups might be a bit different, but I think there is something a bit similar in that most of the tech stories that you hear here are coming out of the U. I think Baidu from a, to the degree that I can be objective, from a numbers perspective in terms of the number of users or the profitability and so forth. I think Pretty interesting story. But not having feet on the ground in the U. In terms of your second question about the startup scene in London and in Europe, I think some people would be really surprised to see actually how vibrant it is. I heard you mention Silicon roundabout before Could you tell me a little bit more about the scene in London, specifically. Silicon Roundabout is I guess the U. But there is a lot of interesting things happening there, and not just in terms of home grown UK companies, but also american companies are coming and choosing to base operations there. Instead of other places that are perhaps in the past. I mean Dublin is still, I think for tax purposes and so forth, is still a pretty attractive place for a lot of people. Also so finally, if you had any advice to startups that were looking to build a service that really requires a huge user base to really get going, what would you say to them what would you say is, like, a great tip or strategy? And what was the problem that needed to be solved. And B, what was something that was so local, that it could be very, very successful initially, on a small scale, but had the drivers behind it to make it appealing globally. And I think with Badoo, the idea that people really want to meet other people, and that everything, I think so much that happened in technology and in this space, is a whole bunch of people sitting behind computers, looking at all this data. And on some level almost assuming that humans behave in this rational way, and that we can predict the way people are going to interact. And predict exactly how they need to be matched up, and so forth.

So what we did was we looked at what we glad was missing. That only goes so far, at some point you have to start making money. A company called The Shaker won the TechCrunch Disrupt award this year. Silicon Roundabout is I guess the U. And so what do you think is like the most interesting feature of the met. Sure, we got started in 2006, originally as a social network, so very similar to how everyone talks about social networks today. Great and so how large is the network now. But there is a lot of interesting things happening there, and not just in terms of north grown UK companies, but also american companies are coming and choosing to baboo 出会い operations there.