News

“A lot of people are like prediction markets will destroy the news. I think it's way more complimentary. It's like when you're talking about an election, you're going to give your opinion, the market's not going to give you an opinion. You still need the commen…”

“I would say, on the whole, an overconsumption of news is I've seen is just one major leak people have in their life.”

“Do I think it's how people are going to want to consume their news? No”

“X has become so powerful that I was looking last night for updates on Syria, and I was getting all of my news up to speed on X from what I was looking to find. So what was interesting was X has almost become the raw material of the news.”

“I'm like, no, it's not important. What's going on. Like in most cases isn't important.”

“No, news is not a venture-backed business.”

“If all you do is read the news every day, You get bombarded with negativity, especially around technology. There's a lot of, the biggest technology stories right now are some version of, like, This is bad. These people are bad.”

“Ultimately the news is poison and it makes you view a, It gives you a perception of the world that is not real.”

“The unintended consequences that I think politicians will think in their heads, oh, if we get rid of section two 30, it will force the companies to deal with fake information and fake news and AI news because we can't do it. Right. What it will do in fact and …”

“Speaking from a business perspective, news is a lot more trouble than it's worth. It's not actually particularly good for business because it's a huge amount of aggravation and toxicity and anger and problem. And it doesn't actually drive a lot of, it certainl…”

“And for them, news is a very small and peripheral thing. You know, it's whatever it is. It's low single digit shares, even all the posts that have links, nevermind all the posts that don't have links.”

“We hear a lot about having the skills to thrive in ambiguity in order to be a successful product manager, but to be a successful product manager in news, you have to be able to thrive in chaos.”

“News is a great place to start because there's a ton of information out on the web. Machine learning is very, very good at analyzing it. And we can build portraits very, very quickly”

“I just don't think there's any upside in looking at what's happening in the moment.”

“99% of us really don't need to know about any of this stuff, honestly.”

“In the United States. Anyway, news was a requirement to have An FCC television or radio license. You had to do a certain number of hours of news as part of your public affairs obligation, right? When we took that away, then news was no longer a mandatory oblig…”

“I'm not a big believer that I really need to read the news every day. It's kind of distorting. It distorts reality too much.”

“I would say half of the news is representing some kind of mass hysteria for one side or the other.”