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social networks

also referred to as: social network · the social network

14 statements across 11 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Benedict Evans · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Everything said about social networks, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Assertion Supported
Evans: 800B photos shared in 2014 vs 80B taken in 1999
“About eighty billion consumer photos were taken in 1999. This year, about eight hundred billion photos will be shared on social networks.”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 5:28 Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Peretti: Multi-platform sharing provides a stronger quality signal than single-network reach
“If someone is sharing it across three or four, you actually realize, okay, this is something that people like in different contexts. It's a stronger quality signal, so it allows us to make better content”
Jonah Peretti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:23 a16z Podcast | For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Peretti: Social platforms have a blind spot regarding cross-network content sharing
“One of the things that's, there's kind of blind spot for social networks, which is that they have huge amounts of data. They have huge number of logged in users, but they're only seen sharing within their network. And what ends up happening is sharing within t…”
Jonah Peretti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:19 a16z Podcast | For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
What-if
Evans: Adopting ten different social networks was impossible on desktop browsers
“Which would have been impossible on the desktop. No one would have used 10 different social networks on their web browser.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:27 a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Evans: Network effects do not translate to building smartphone hardware
“In a funny sort of sense, it's like you could be too far up the stack to do this, just as you could be too far down the stack to do this. So just as it doesn't really make sense for a mobile operator or a handset maker to try and build a social network, it doe…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:57 a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Chan: Social networks struggle to combine private safety with stranger discovery
“It's very difficult for most social networks to pull off both being private and safe, but also being a place where you can meet new people.”
Connie Chan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:23 a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Thompson: Social media feeds never accurately reflect broader public opinion
“It's the illusion that your social network is accurately reflective of the world. And we should just try to build the instinct to think that it never is. That just because something seems ubiquitous to our local communities almost never means that it's necessa…”
Derek Thompson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:50 a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
Nov 16, 2022
Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: A nation is a densely connected social network subgraph
“My definition is it's a densely connected sub graph in a social network.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 48:43 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Apr 14, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Much of future e-commerce will originate directly on social networks
“A lot of e-commerce of the future will actually come from social networks because ads and commerce are actually very symbiotic and naturally should go together.”
Connie Chan Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 7:22 Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Jun 6, 2025
Insight
Olivia Moore: AI social networks fail because they lack real emotional stakes
“To work, a social network has to have, like, real emotional stakes. And if you can generate the content in a way that you like it, and you always look amazing, and you always look happy, and you're always in a cool background, like, it doesn't have the same se…”
Olivia Moore Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 11:13 The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
Jul 9, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Simpson: No major social network was started in the last decade
“If you look at, like, all of the big social networks, none of them have been started in the last decade. And that's not true just of crypto. It's true in general.”
Arianna Simpson Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 19:27 Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: Crypto, AI, and social networks form network state cores
“This is the center of society and they've got their deterministic law with cryptocurrency and their probabilistic guidance with AI and their social network that binds the whole thing together. So those three technologies are like social technologies that are a…”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 0:14 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Every culture will have its own AGI, crypto, social network
“I think is one very useful macro frame means every culture has their own AGI and eventually every culture has their own social network and cryptocurrency and AI.”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 0:02 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
Nov 19, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Boyle: 'The Social Network' Was 2010s Tech's Most Defining Movie
“I've always said that I think the social network had probably the greatest influence of the twenty-tens in terms of being a defining movie of what technology means.”
Katherine Boyle Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 14:09 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
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