social media

“That's why I, quite frankly, have probably missed most of what's happened in the whole social media and much of the consumer in the last couple years, partly because I was doing my own startup in the wine business, but also because a lot of what that was about…”

“If you look at just the top four messaging apps, there are three billion people there now. So that's bigger than all of social put together.”

“There were not, and was not a level of sophistication in Vancouver around social media, let alone cloud and SaaS.”

“And so if I were to look ahead and say, will social media be more manual and more active or more passive, I think it will certainly be more passive.”

“Time that we would have had to just kind of idly look out the window and think up things is now kind of occupied with social media or incoming messages. So I think that you kind of have to dedicate a bit more intention around the idea of using your imagination…”

“I draw the distinction between social media and social networking as to whether or not a response is required. So messaging and social networks, if you leave someone a message or post something You know, there is a social obligation to respond. To not reply wo…”

“The idea of the feed is probably the single most consequential architectural decision that we have in social media.”

“Everyone rushes to social media for their hot takes. They don't like this logo. They don't like the way this thing looks. Who designed this? This could be done by a two-year-old with a crayon. Like everyone's negative about it. And then it all fades away in tw…”

“I think the demonization of social is actually really quite unfair, because it's what you make of it.”

“We already see, of course, the fracture of the shared reality because of tribal narrow cast media, you know, each telling their own story and social media, creating bubbles of reality. And I think AI can just accelerate these trends.”

“The rules to the game is that if you don't have anything unique, if you don't bring a new perspective to the conversation, Nobody's going to give a shit about following you.”

“I think brands, trusted brands are really important, but AI isn't the thing that's suddenly going to challenge trusted brands. Social media's already done that for, what, 1015 years now. You know, the breakdown in shared truths, the breakdown our understanding…”

“What happened with Be Real in my estimation is that they did capture that why now of the authenticity But they could never earn the right to enough minutes for a consumer because the consumer was then having, you know, the dopamine hits of, you know, the most …”

“When social media was a follower based economy, I think it was a lot healthier of an ecosystem.”

“I think it should really be banned for adults more, you know.”

“So what I really, really despise is vanity. So there is a high correlation between people that post a lot. Or tweet a lot, or whatever. So using social media a lot, and efficiency.”

“Look, if I could, through a democratic process, because I believe in democracies, I believe in collective governance, get our society to agree to say, hey, what we should do is identify some topics that panels of experts can yield To a truth determination on. …”

“I think people demonize social in the way that diet can be demonized. If you go on my TikTok, Instagram, you name it, there's protein recipes, there's inspirational talks from Tony Robbins, and Alain de Botton, and great thinkers there's baby videos, I think b…”

“Yes, I think we should. I think it needs to be way highly regulated.”

“The equivalent of that in social media is Bad opinionated people drive out good, boring people.”

“Six percent of kids are teenagers that are clinically addicted to alcohol or drugs. 24% are addicted to social media.”

“We have a 60% uptick in teen suicide in the US, and I don't put it all at the hands of social or the feet of social media, but it's definitely played a role”

“A lot of the nationalism all around the world is because social media essentially struck a chord with the core issue that all the technology productivity didn't really get passed on properly to everybody in society.”

“I'm just saying be very skeptical if you assume that to be the case. Don't assume transference. Prove transference, right?”

“Agentic development is addictive. It's, I think, the better kind of Addiction than like social media or passive consumption. It's like creative addiction, which is kind of good.”

“My kids are totally uninterested in social media. Like they just don't, they completely don't give a shit. They follow links to social media sometimes, but they have no interest in being, having accounts and they don't have phones.”