social media

“Like I think that VR will be the most social of all the social media ever.”

“Now that you can tell people who you are and maintain your friendships through social media, you don't need books and music in the same way. You may be interested in them, but they don't have cultural potency anymore”

“You can't make something social. It either has a dynamic that's social and authentic, or it doesn't.”

“I think things like cryptocurrency, for example, in many ways, it's a consequence of social media. If 20 years ago, someone invented Bitcoin, you'd have like a couple New York Times articles quoting some Yale economists. This is stupid. It's over. Maybe it'd b…”

“Social media is not really social anymore in a way. It's kind of gone from the social graph where you followed your friends and your family, and then now it's an interest graph where you follow just things that this algorithm is serving you.”

“The sort of social media universe covering, like, this Cambrian explosion of citizen journalism and news, but where the incentive system seemed to create sort of a pull towards madness”

“If you were going to build a modern Disney or Marvel now, you probably wouldn't want to start in comic books or in theaters. You'd want to start where the eyeballs are, which was, you know, really on social”

“The biggest thing that I always wanted to do was to charge consumers to follow us on social and everyone's like, I've been told no for, I don't know, as long as we've had social out there.”

“I think one of the most transformative things for sports isn't necessarily new technology, but it's social media. And social media has given teams and athletes a microphone to be able to be their, you know, their selves and their brands, and to be able to reac…”

“A lot of the most interesting new platforms like you know, UEFN and Roblox, which are user generated, you know, content platforms, you know, all the metaverse work that's also happening as well. You know, all of those kind of fall into user generate, you know,…”

“Even in the US, if you do the sort of, there's you know, sort of analysts that do the mapping of ideologies and political views in the US, it's only like six percent of the US population that agrees with the point of view that ended up getting built into socia…”

“Particularly if we get better blockchain crypto regulation, that we actually have a very good technological approach particularly for politicians and people in, you know, public figures to basically digitally sign content they're in, put it on the blockchain, …”

“Really it's only been in the last five years when I think almost everybody, like, let's say basically everybody under the age of 70 and a very large number of people over the age of 70 basically have shifted from top down media as their main Source of informat…”

“I think of crypto as being a second order effect of social media.”

“Social media has become the dog, and traditional media has become the tail, and they just get, like, whipped around like crazy by all these, you know, by all these shifting memes.”

“The social media is many things, but one of the things it is, is it's an x-ray machine.”

“And I think there are definitely like the thing that would break Substack is if we just looked at the same way that the legacy social media things built advertising and said, oh, we're just going to copy that. Like that's going to work because And if we did th…”

“Each viral social media meme explosion is like a two and a half day panic cycle.”

“The degree to which partisans of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams attack each other in the 1800 election is, like, Way beyond even what we see today on social media.”

“Being in the risk management business, I always know that everybody keeps doing that, and eventually you get, Canceled because you do, you know, you do something, you step over some invisible line that, you know, that nobody knew about. And so I realized that …”