Adam Mosseri

21 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2023 by Adam Mosseri · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jul 24, 2023
Insight
Market Success Drives Team Morale More Than Internal Communication
“Over the long run, the thing that's going to get people the most rallied, the most excited, the most motivated, the most effective is doing good work and being successful.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 15:40 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023
Insight
Overusing Executive Veto Power Prevents Retaining Top Creative Talent
“If you do that too much, you stifle creativity, you don't create enough space, you cannot hire or retain the most creative and interesting talent, so you have to use that sparingly.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 8:37 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Adam Mosseri Uses LLMs to Summarize Performance Feedback and Edit Writing
“I write pretty detailed reviews for my reports every six months and so I don't have AI write it, but I have it take a first pass at summarizing all the feedback to make sure I didn't miss anything. I will sometimes Give it a piece. I do a lot of writing at wor…”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 1:18:40 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023
Assertion Supported
Mosseri Rebuilt Instagram's Leadership Team Across Nine Functions in Year One
“So my first year, I had to hire a head of design, engineering, product management, data science, research, HR, communications, marketing, and a COO.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 11:56 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Opinion
YouTube Is the Best Platform for Sustained Creator Revenue Payouts
“YouTube is the best at You know, doing sustained, consistent payouts with their ref share program, because long form video is, I think, a lot more conducive to that.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 56:05 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Threads Will Focus on Creator Sharing and Retention for the Next Year
“So it'll be, the two things I'll focus on most for the next year will be the creator community, specifically, not only how many of them use the app, but how many of them share the app as a place for their creativity, and then retention for the average user.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 1:07:34 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Opinion
Adam Mosseri Praises Telegram's Speed, Execution, and Ability to Pivot
“The other in the video space, yeah, the other folk who are really fast and really good and I respect a lot is Telegram. Telegram is just, the, that team is just really good, they build something really well, and they can pivot quickly, and when they decide to …”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 35:12 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Frequent Profile Picture Updates on Early Facebook Inspired Photo Sharing
“Early Facebook days, before we had photos, people just kept changing their profile picture. Like every day, multiple times a day. I'm like, oh, sounds like people want to share photos. Maybe we should build that.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 38:51 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023
Assertion Supported
Facebook's Safety Team Was Larger Than Instagram's Total Headcount
“The safety and integrity work, we were running too much of our own stuff and not leveraging the much larger teams at Facebook and in the central teams. I think there were more engineers that worked on safety and integrity at the company at the time that then w…”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 16:39 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Instagram Is the Most Popular Platform Among Creators Overall
“Instagram is the, it's the most popular in the creator community, as far as we can tell. So the most creators use it.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 56:16 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 negative
Insight
Video Is Good for Time Spent but Bad for Revenue
“Yeah, and so the thing that I think people don't always realize is video, by its nature as a format, is actually really challenging for all the old social networks. It puts a lot of downward pressure on the ads business, because if you watch one video for 10 s…”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 46:36 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Prior Facebook and Instagram Video Products Hurt User Connection
“And so the fact that video, growing video has massively grown sends, which is a pure friend-to-friend interaction, even not even, even if you take out the real shares, because they start conversation, I might send you a funny, you know, football clip, and then…”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 47:26 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 negative
Opinion
BeReal Has Struggled to Expand Beyond Initial Viral Attention
“I think it's a really powerful mechanic. I think it's it was an amazing moment. I think it was, like, incredibly culturally relevant. I think when that, when you have that explosive growth like that, that you just focus a hundred percent on just keeping the li…”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 1:26:00 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Meta Adopts Competitor-Pioneered Formats When They Become Industry Standards
“I think we're very good at optimizing things, and I think that we are willing to, when somebody pioneers a new format, to go and adopt that format if we think it's going to become an industry standard.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 36:12 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023
Insight
Leaders Must Repeat Strategic Directives Until It Feels Excessive
“If you really want to move the team on something, you need to say it until so many times that you literally want to throw up in your mouth if you say it again, and then you need to say it again, and again, and it can be Tough, because you can feel like you're …”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 7:53 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Maintaining Platform Cultural Relevance Matters More Than Raw User Count
“I care every bit about, every bit as much about making sure that the, even, maybe even more, that the platform is culturally relevant than the, sort of, the big number of users.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 58:32 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 negative
Insight
Directly Paying Every Creator Destroys a Social Platform's Business Model
“You can't just pay everybody who's a creator, because if there's tens of millions of creators, that just adds up to money that's going to just completely destroy your business model. So you have to figure out ways to give them tools to make money, in my opinio…”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 59:03 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only One in Eight Meta Employees Reads Leadership's Internal Posts
“We make a post Internally, and one out of eight employees reads it, and we move on with our lives, and we're surprised when the whole company doesn't move along with us”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 7:39 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023
Disclosure
Mosseri Reallocated Instagram's Entire Stories Team to Messaging
“Actually, at one point, a couple years ago, I think I put the entire stories team on messaging.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 23:16 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Early Facebook Design Team Had 8 to 12 Independent Designers
“When I first started, We had this amazingly talented group of designers, I don't know how many there were, eight, somewhere between eight and 12 of us, and they just did whatever they wanted.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 4:04 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 13, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Dash: Video feeds inherently constrain ad inventory compared to text feeds
“Yeah, look, I think Adam is right in that that dynamic generally exists with feed oriented products.”
Suchit Dash Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 53:49 Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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