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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…”
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…”
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.”
Simplicity in Product Design Is Not Always the Best Choice
“But I think to say it's always better is a mistake. I think of simplicity as a means to an end, and you have to be clear about what that end is. Maybe it's usability, maybe it's broad appeal, but I think that it's possible. There are instances where a more com…”
Text Feeds and Search Have the Highest Monetization Efficiency in Tech
“A text-based feed is about the highest monetization efficiency of any sort of online business I've seen. I think that and search are basically the two. Just because the number of things you consume per hour is just incredibly high because it's so light.”
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 …”
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.”
Feed Products Like Twitter Are Heavily Dominated by Key Creators
“Feeds are very head heavy in general, and so is text. So basically that's to say that you have to assume that Twitter and other feed products in general tend to have most of the content is consumed by a small number, sorry, most of the content consumed is prod…”