Apple Hires Former Venture Capitalist Josh Elman For App Store Discovery Role (appleinsider.com) 10
As part of Apple's ongoing efforts to improve app discovery, the company has hired former venture capitalist Josh Elman for a related role on the App Store. AppleInsider reports: In a statement Monday, Elman said he would be joining Apple to "help customers discover the best apps for them." He added that he was excited to "build ways to help over a billion customers and millions of developers connect." As part of the transition to the new role at Apple, Elman said he would be stepping back from some of his active boards and investments -- including Discord and Medium.
Elman was previously a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners and led early investments in Discord and the precursor to TikTok. Until 2019, he was also the vice president of product at Robinhood. Elman's experience identifying and investing in apps that later became hits could help Apple in its app and software promotion endeavors. According to Bloomberg, the former venture capitalist could also help smooth over the relationship between Apple and developers.
Elman was previously a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners and led early investments in Discord and the precursor to TikTok. Until 2019, he was also the vice president of product at Robinhood. Elman's experience identifying and investing in apps that later became hits could help Apple in its app and software promotion endeavors. According to Bloomberg, the former venture capitalist could also help smooth over the relationship between Apple and developers.
Yes, this makes sense (Score:5, Insightful)
the former venture capitalist could also help smooth over the relationship between Apple and developers.
Yes, you need a special person for this job because nobody currently working for Apple can just, you know, talk to developers about the problems they are having and maybe actually do something to help them out a little bit.
More corporate dumbfuckery.
Re: (Score:2)
No, you misunderstand. It's about "helping billions of customers to connect." The billions of dollars, why, that's just coincidental.
But on a real note, this will probably turn out like, "Apple used Social Engineering. It's super-effective!"
First suggestion (Score:3)
If someone searches for the literal name of an app, show that app in the search results.
Re: (Score:2)
He's going to help developers' profits vanish. They didn't really want them cluttering up their bank accounts; they'd much rather pay them to Apple!
Developers will feel much better after this one neat trick.
They still don't get it... (Score:3)
Not just a VC (Score:2)
RealNetworks, LinkedIn and more as product manager: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11... [techcrunch.com]
Join all the app stores. (Score:2)
Just let us install apps from other app stores. Seriously, I cannot get some apps because changing app store will cause a subscription to stop. Ugh.