Chris Paik
12 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 9, 2023 by Chris Paik · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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May 9, 2023 neutral
May 9, 2023 bearish
Paik: Social graphs are becoming obsolete compared to content recommendation engines
“The social graph works and worked because of the idea that who people select for in their social graph is a proxy for their interest. And so in some ways you are using somebody's social graph as spark notes for the integral, the fully like, you know, my new in…”
May 9, 2023 neutral
Paik: Misalignments peak when venture participants play final-round games
“I think the Mac, the areas of maximum misalignment are when it feels like the reputation does not carry over in between iterations of the game, or that's the final iteration of the game that any one participant is playing for. Because then people are incentivi…”
May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023
Paik: TikTok could not exist before Twitter due to bandwidth constraints
“There's a very clear reason why the order of founding went from Twitter first, to Instagram, to Snapchat, to TikTok. And it is because mobile as infrastructure and bandwidth in its earliest stages, supported the lowest packet size, text. And then next compress…”
May 9, 2023
Paik: All human behavior is driven by the seven deadly sins
“I actually think the seven deadly sins are really core motivators. They describe why people do things. And I would go far as far to say, like, honestly, They're the only reasons why people do things. I think it's possible to distill down any individual behavio…”
May 9, 2023 neutral
May 9, 2023 positive
May 9, 2023 positive
Paik: Startup moats are intentional and embedded in product from day one
“So if you were to look at the system design behind companies that ultimately developed modes at scale, it's not something that like happens magically overnight once the company's up and running. It's like embedded in the core product from day one. And so I thi…”
May 9, 2023 bearish
Paik: Multi-billion dollar bloated VC funds will unwind over a decade
“I don't think all, I almost, like, definitionally, I don't think all of them make it. I think we're gonna see over the next, here's the thing, like, it's gonna take a long time, it's gonna take a decade plus for this stuff to unwind, but they're gonna get lost…”
May 9, 2023 negative
Paik: Acquisition retention packages create founder-VC incentive misalignment
“One of the biggest areas of misalignment between founders and investors is probably management incentive in an acquisition. So management incentive in acquisition is basically when the acquiring company says you, the management team will have this compensation…”