Founder Breakthroughs
Every week, Inc 500 Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Durso interviews brave founders, uncovers their epic stories, and elicits profound insights about what has helped them achieve breakthroughs in their business.
Founder Breakthroughs
How products go viral and scale to millions of users – with Vincent McPhillip from Knomad
We’ve all seen products over the years that fizzle out or go sideways – and other products in the same category that achieve explosive growth and quickly scale to millions
Likewise, we’ve seen companies enter red oceans with tons of competitors – only to quickly go viral there and dominate. Google did this in the crowded search space of 1998. Facebook did this to Myspace.
But – how do they pull this off?
I’m so excited to bring you today’s guest – Vince McPhillip.
A trained social scientist and entrepreneur, he’s spent his career thinking about how to design for massive virality.
And he’s already done it once, launching the Pi network to over 3 million users during his tenure – and over 45 million users at its peak.
Now he’s at it again with Knomad – tackling one of humanity’s longest standing challenges – trust.
LinkedIn provided a huge breakthrough to the space back in 2003 – but has been about as innovative as a snail since then, and may have set itself up for a Myspace moment of its own.
Vince and I had a fascinating discussion about what goes into the DNA of products to make them go viral – and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did as you hear his plans for launching Knomad.
Links:
Knomad: https://knomad.io/