#105: Why Messaging Apps Need Payments with Robby Wade

GUEST INTRO

Robby Wade is the Co-Founder & CEO of ThisApp, an all-in-one chat platform that makes it easy to connect with anyone and organize anything.

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EPISODE LINKS

ThisApp: https://www.thisapp.com

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction

1:58 What is ThisApp?

4:07 Working on an app with similar concepts

6:57 The Dunning-Kruger Effect

8:00 Messaging apps in the West and East

16:54 How WeChat became a super app

21:26 Paywalls in Messaging Apps

25:37 The struggle of building foreign businesses in China

28:24 Simplicity works well

32:31 The problems with centralized currency

35:19 Data privacy and data leaks

41:39 Innovating in the messaging space

49:19 Don’t give away your contact book

52:50 Keeping focused

56:17 Making good decisions

59:21 Working on a timeline

1:01:15 The need to pivot

1:03:40 Follow up with Robby

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