social networks
also referred to as: social network · the social network
11 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jul 3, 2015 by Harry Stebbings · said 22 times in 16 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (5), Jason Lemkin (3), Bret Taylor (3), Miles Grimshaw (2), Peter Lacaillade (1), David Tisch (1), Dan Siroker (1), Ben Lerer (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is A Stupid Concept, VC Is Ripe For Disruption & Not All LPs Are Made Equal with Michael Skok, Founding Partner @ Underscore VC
- 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
- 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about social networks, oldest first
Jul 3, 2015
Stebbings Discovered VC at Age 12 Watching The Social Network
“I was sitting in the cinema watching The Social Network with Jesse Eisenberg, and I saw Peter Thiel and Clarion Capital investing in Facebook in that film, and I thought, that looks like a pretty, pretty sweet deal. And, you know, actually I think I was about …”
Mar 7, 2016 negative
Tunguz: Google's Intent Ad Model Failed to Monetize Social Networks
“For Google, they were interesting because they generated huge numbers, huge amounts of traffic, but they didn't actually generate that much revenue. And that's because the intent model that Google was so predicated upon didn't really apply in social networks, …”
Nov 19, 2020 bullish
Ohanian: Major social networks are actively being unbundled by Gen Z founders
“We're already seeing it. Absolutely. And I'm talking to founders every day. Gen Z founders who are like the way smarter versions of me graduating college. They've seen the mess that we've made over the last 15 years. They are actively building better platforms…”
Feb 24, 2021
Nov 22, 2021
Eugene Wei: Primary mechanism of network growth is status game creation
“Status as a service posits, there are two things that explain a lot of this. One is that humans are just hardwired to seek status, or as you would call it, status, which sounds more classy. The second is that humans... Will tend to gravitate towards the most e…”
Feb 22, 2023 negative
Feb 22, 2023 positive
Systrom: Social networks must become less social and rely on behavioral affinity
“So, long time, like, long story short, I think that social networks need to become less social, and I think that something that will make up for it is this idea of learned association or learned affinity through your behavior.”
May 15, 2023 positive
LeCun: AI is the solution to social network harms, not the cause
“So, for example, there's a narrative, a very, very common narrative that AI is the culprit for a lot of the bad side effects of social networks in the past. And in fact, it's completely backwards. AI is the solution to those problems.”
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Mar 24, 2025
Feldman: Experience matters far more than naivety in complex hardware startups
“I think if you are in a business in which running a business is a benefit, then experience matters a great deal. I think if you are in a business in which you look like Your customer. There was a reason why social, social networks were started by people right …”
Aug 11, 2025 negative
Mignot: Social media algorithms must be public and auditable
“I think it should be loud, but there should be a bigger conversation about social networks and about the openness of algorithms, which don't only apply to TikTok, but, you know, applies to X, applies to Facebook. I think those algorithms should be should be pu…”