The Humble Beginnings ...
● Velocity residence at University of Waterloo● The Greatest Ever Insight:
“Cloud storage will never get big”● Pivot, after pivot, after pivot
The Overnight Success
● Messenger was just a little side product● Three weeks with three hours of sleep● Aviation and startups – a match made in heaven
Focused. Finally.
● Mobile revolution is reducing desktop to the mere screen
● Desktop giants can't adapt without hurting their core product
● The tidal wave of social media has reversed and Kik wants to ride it
Management Team
● Ted Livingston, CEO & Founder – dropped out at 23, donated first million at 24
● Peter Heinke, CFO & COO – successful serial entrepreneur and a public company CFO
● Fred Wilson, VC & board member – world's most successful investor in social media
Kik Messenger
● Fast, reliable and popular mobile messenger
● Yuriy Blokhin, Senior Developer
● Contact me: [email protected]
Gaping holes in the product
● Ever pressing need to choose between product simplicity and features
● Core Kik Messenger cannot fit any more features without hurting the user experience
● Unsatisfied demands of 4.5 million users
Opportunity
● Kik API lets you transfer arbitrary content and files in between Kik users
● Well defined and small project scope – ideal for weekend projects or small teams
● 4.5 million users who provably need these apps
● We will not pull a twitter on you
How to do it?
● API integration process that takes 10 minutes and 5 lines of code per mobile platform
● Small footprint: ~100kb on iPhone, ~10kb on Android
● Transfer rich content & media messages up to 10 mb
● SDK, documentation & personal technical support
● Free, fast and friendly
So, how exactly it works?
Competition
● Email & SMS – clunky, laborious and bland flow
● BBM Social API – limited only to BB users
● No other cross-platform smartphone messenger provides an open social API
Next Steps
● Go to www.kik.com/dev and download SDK
● Come up with what type of content within your app is the most “sharable” and “clickable”
● Spend 10 minutes per platform & integrate Kik API into your mobile app
● For any questions contact me at [email protected]
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