Eugene Wei

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 22, 2021 by Eugene Wei · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Nov 22, 2021 neutral
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Wei: An Amazon recruiter hired him after saving his unqualified cover letter
“I wrote a super long cover letter. This is the era before companies had computers just screening resumes, and I wrote this really long, impassioned cover letter, and a recruiter read it and said, well, he's obviously not qualified for this job, but this cover …”
Eugene Wei Nov 22, 2021 ▶ 4:30 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
Nov 22, 2021
Insight
Wei: Intuition Is Data-Driven Knowledge Accumulated Over Time
“I think that in fact, our intuitions are informed by massive streams of data accumulated over many years of living in the world. We just don't have a way to describe what that is.”
Eugene Wei Nov 22, 2021 ▶ 42:20 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
Nov 22, 2021
Insight
Wei: Disrupt incumbents by directly inverting their primary core strength
“The way that you want to attack an incumbent is typically by going after their biggest strength and doing something that's the reverse of it because they derive most of their power and revenue from their biggest strength. It's also the thing that they're most …”
Eugene Wei Nov 22, 2021 ▶ 20:24 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
Nov 22, 2021
Insight
Eugene Wei: Decision-making mediums dictate outcomes and must match decision type
“I've come to think that the process or medium you choose to make a decision actually can affect what decision you make, and so it's really important, in my opinion, to choose the right process and medium for the decision. And different processes lead to differ…”
Eugene Wei Nov 22, 2021 ▶ 5:37 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
Nov 22, 2021 neutral
Opinion
Eugene Wei: The Feed Is Social Media's Most Consequential Architectural Choice
“The idea of the feed is probably the single most consequential architectural decision that we have in social media.”
Eugene Wei Nov 22, 2021 ▶ 17:22 20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
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