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“The web started off worse, but it got better at a faster rate by getting this flywheel of entrepreneurs, and developers, and users”

“I'm more optimistic about the crypto stuff happening sooner because it's software-based, meaning the hardware's already built out, and now we just need to like a few quick, you know, a few clever incentives and some nice software, and you suddenly have like, y…”

“You know, the idea that today was a fait accompli, and like, it's obvious, like Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road Ahead predicting what's gonna happen in the future. It's 95. This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscap…”

“What the smartphone did was unbundle the internet from the web and amongst many other things.”

“All of this sort of, this kind of Berlin wall that you have between the web and native code is fading away.”

“Because those have existed in newspapers for, you know, decades, it's considered ok, but then, you know, you have slidey things, and lists, and everything else, and because it's new, it's like, oh god, the web is destroying western culture.”

“And then you layer any discovery mechanism that you lay onto that works until you try and encompass the whole of the web, and then it just collapses under its own weight.”

“Facebook, those are push channels, whereas the web is a pull channel.”

“So when I think about the failure of the web as the platform, it's because it's so heavy. It's because, you know, ad blockers are in ascendancy because the web is so slow for most of the world that we don't have sensitivity to that. And so when it comes to ide…”

“So we're going to be seeing in the future blockchain applications, and blockchain applications do not need the web. They go and attach themselves directly on the internet.”

“So we could argue that the web as it is today 20 plus years after its first commercialization has become a bit too, too centralized for our liking.”

“So just about every version of anything that we see today on the web will have and might have a version of a decentralized version of it.”

“It was easier for platforms to build a network, I would argue, on mobile more than web.”

“Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road Ahead predicting what's gonna happen in the future of 95. This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right? T…”

“Him and then also the academics and other people who made DNS, for example, like the fact that it was permissionless, the fact that a hobbyist in a university could be on sort of level playing field with Disney on the web, right?”

“But like, just as an example, the web, and when it was originally conceived, didn't have images.”

“If we can build the right agent experience around the web, that will make it possible again to build really wild and creative experiences, but still allow any person interacting with them that also have agents helping them to interact in whatever way they want…”

“And same with homework helper apps. Like, those are really blowing up on mobile as compared to web.”

“A lot of the voice-first consumer products that we are seeing working actually are on mobile versus web because it's easier and more natural to talk into your phone for language learning or for companionship or other use cases than it is to maybe talk into you…”

“The web is the ultimate software platform. Like everything should go on the web.”