The Former CEO of Waze Is Building A New Social Platform For News w/ Noam Bardin (Founder & CEO)
In this episode, Shamus Madan converses with Noam Bardin about his tech journey and the creation of Post. They delve into comparisons between Post and TikTok, Post's business model, and its moderation policies. They discuss user engagement, verification processes, misinformation, and the community's role. The impact of social media on mental health and user behavior, strategic growth in startups, and misconceptions about IPOs are also explored. The episode concludes with a look into Post's future and the magic of social media.
Key Points
- Noam Bardin, former CEO of Waze and founder of Post, is focused on creating a new social platform for news that aims to solve the problems of misinformation and toxicity by leveraging a community-based approach and micro-payments instead of traditional advertising models.
- Post's strategy to maintain high-quality engagement as it scales includes real-name verification for users, a reputation score system that affects content reach, and a community-driven moderation system that allows trusted users to have more influence on content regulation.
- Bardin emphasizes the importance of staying scrappy and focused on the user and product, warning against the pitfalls of startups raising too much money, which can lead to overbuilding, hiring prematurely, and clouding critical KPIs.
Noam Bardin is the former CEO of Waze. During his time as the CEO of Waze, he launched Waze Ads, drove Monthly Active Users up from 2,000 to 140 million, built up the Waze Global community, and much more. Now he is the CEO of Post which aims to develop a platform where publishers can generate revenue from micropayments where users pay as little as five cents to read individual articles. This would enable users to read the articles of their liking without having to pay subscriptions to each publishing company. The platform also combines a social component enabling anyone to create, share, and engage with the posts.
Sign up for Post here: https://post.news
Twitter of Host (Shamus Madan): @mbitpodcast
Twitter of Guest (Noam Bardin): @noam
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