MySpace

“When we were building Facebook in the 2000, we knew we had beaten MySpace when they started selling the homepage to the Hulk movie, and the Hulk started, the Hulk, like, punched through the MySpace homepage.”

“Given that there's no network effects, or don't, or not yet any network effects in LLMs, that feels very fragile. Like, you know, if you remember, you know, I cannot, you know, remember, like, everyone used Yahoo, and then everyone switched to Google, because …”

“And so at the time they launched their platform, I think they were maybe like one fourth, one fifth the size of, you know, something like my space or even friends or orchid, like some of these are some of the names.”

“I was one of the investors in MySpace.”

“And that's what makes it different than all these other social networks. Myspace existed. Friendster existed. But anyone could sign up for these. And in part, that meant that they had more explosive growth, because there was no governor on the growth. And we'l…”

“So MySpace only allowed you to have eight photos maximum at the time.”

“And also, a year before, MySpace had gotten bought for five hundred and eighty million dollars.”

“MySpace. Well, they died because their product got too slow.”

“One of the clever things that Friendster created, for those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about, this is way pre-Facebook. It's even pre-MySpace. Part of what it did to get people to put in a picture was it put a little gray question mark.”

“If you have a crappy signup page that looks like it was made on MySpace in 2006, like that's setting the tone for your product. So they don't have to be immediately wowed, but you need to start giving them kind of the vibe of the product right from the very ge…”

“My space was bleeding cash and was actually bigger than Meta at the time or Facebook.”

“And he sells Myspace for five hundred eighty million dollars and he pieces out.”

“The name of the game is basically like, that's why I read biographies. It's just copy what others have done that's worked and try to avoid the mistakes that cost them a lot of like headache. And I'm not trying to invent anything new. We can, I can get real phi…”

“If you think about a lot of, it's not just Snap, Instagram, Facebook, MySpace, they all started with the young female users. Pinterest, maybe older female users. I think Reddit's really the only big social media example that started with a primarily male audie…”

“In fact, most category creators lose the market. Like what happened to MySpace? What happened to Ask Jeeves? It didn't work out so good for them. Most category creators actually get overtaken by fast followers.”

“Meta, back when it was Facebook, innovated by moving from activated confirmed registered users to monthly active users. And no one talked about that before. They were still talking about their registered user base back then. That's what MySpace talked about.”

“Most markets don't have winner take all either. There's going to be a few people. Consumer social has been one of the areas where there's been real winner take all. Like Facebook existing meant that MySpace was not going to exist, but very few markets really h…”

“That democratization of the campaign, even though we maintained a lot of discipline within it, combined with our innovations with social media and the internet, which again required us to give over power to a bunch of 23 and 25 and 27 year olds who understood …”

“The fact that MySpace came before Facebook doesn't in the slightest in the way I think about creation diminish the creative act of all the things that Zuckerberg and others at Facebook have done to make Facebook a great company. So first mover and invention to…”

“MySpace didn't have that viral coefficient because the products were so they had so much friction.”

“And this is one of the great facts about our industry is that you cannot turn Money into great products as a kind of mechanical operation. If it were possible, there would be many more great iPhone competitors. Facebook would have been long since eclipsed by M…”

“He had called me and said, you know, Carter, I got this girl that I saw in MySpace that I want you to check out, and he brought her in, And she played her music, which was great, and was Lady Gaga.”

“MySpace was eighty million users. We were just shy of two, maybe actually less than two million at the time.”

“When I was working for Governor Mike Huckabee in 2007 and 2008, our main two online platforms were MySpace and Facebook just became more and more important towards the end of the campaign.”

“Being able to do with a 200 person tech team what previously they had done with a 2000 person tech team”

“Right media never became our customer. And that's a different story, but MySpace did become a very big customer of ours.”

“That was back in 2007 where MySpace, you know, had kind of was at the height where probably Facebook is today.”