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Menlo Ventures

A venture firm investing from seed to Series B.

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Retention and engagement1

Read retention curves, not distribution size, to predict the winning platform▶ 32:05Facebook was smaller than MySpace and Friendster in 2007 but had better retention; ChatGPT has roughly 10x the MAU of Claude and better retention.Lenny's Podcast · Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour

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