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Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t

make anyone’s life better by making

advertisements work better.

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I want to do one thing, and do it well."

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We don't want to build a hookup app so

you can find someone weird to talk to. It's

not what we're about. We're about your

intimate relationships.

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It stinks. It’s a dead technology like a fax

machine left over from the seventies,

sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

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We're the most atypical Silicon Valley company

you'll come across. We were founded by

thirtysomethings; we focused on business

sustainability and revenue rather than getting big

fast, we've been incognito almost all the time,

we're mobile first, and we're global first.

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Comparing total registered users and

active users is like comparing Ferrari 250

GTO with a skateboard.

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It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's

working about Snapchat. Great, teenagers

can use it to get laid all day long. I don't

care. I'm 42, essentially married with a

kid. I don't give a s--- about this.

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It was so run-down that our school didn't

even have an inside bathroom. Imagine the

Ukrainian winter, -20°C, where little kids

have to stroll across the parking lot to use

the bathroom. ...I didn't have a computer

until I was 19–but I did have an abacus.

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We want to know as little about our users

as possible. We don't know your name,

your gender… We designed our system to

be as anonymous as possible. We're not

advertisement-driven so we don't need

personal databases.

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We won’t stop until every single person

on the planet has an affordable and

reliable way to communicate with their

friends and loved ones.