Privacy

“I don't think anyone gives a shit about privacy other than hardcore technologists.”

“I think all the money is not gonna be made on who can run the most tokens fastest or build the coolest shit, because everyone will go infinitely fast on that. You'll be able to charge an enormous premium for security and privacy, but the problem is, is like, t…”

“Privacy will win over some users, but probably most, the history of the internet has been won over by convenience”

“I think video puts all of those inclinations and all of those risks on steroids. It also happens to obliterate your privacy just through giving you broader facial recognition in the world.”

“And also, you know, another, another BS thing that Apple pitched, which this is privacy thing, which honestly, like, I cannot believe how much mileage they got out of that. They kind of just painted themselves into a corner because, you know, all these other c…”

“I think there is a lot of bullshit on On privacy, where they use as well sometimes this pretext to just reposition their platform as a brand platform, and because it's brand, just spend whatever you want, and you don't track anything, and it's better for them.…”

“Privacy is like vegetables and we give it up. We will happily give it up for just the promise of a moment of pleasure or convenience. Well, that, cause, cause that's the junk food. And like, we just go for the junk food. That's the reality of the situation is …”

“And so the, when the utility greatly outweighs the perceived concerns, I think that's when these things tip.”

“I think generationally we'll find balance between like having a comfortable life on the internet and a life where you'll share with your friends and your people.”

“Privacy, users, value and experience and safety, because if you try to maximize one, you're probably going to kill the others. Or possibly kill the others.”

“I think that the pendulum starts to swing in the other direction where we say, okay, you know what? I'll eat out at Chipotle one night a week less. And instead I'm going to reallocate that money to making sure that I have, you know, some amount of privacy.”

“One of my like general hot takes is that people don't actually care that much about privacy or like the average person doesn't really care that much about privacy and won't be willing to actually pay for it with worse functionality.”

“Privacy, as far as I'm concerned, and I discussed this more with my family than others, but we believe privacy is kind of dead. There just isn't any more privacy”

“Competition conflicts, almost everything that we want to do here. Competition conflicts with privacy conflicts with everything else. You pick one.”

“That's something that we'll see what the lifespan of that type of gamified data collection is based on how privacy is trending in the United States and certainly abroad. It, That becomes a more and more difficult thing to be able to monetize.”

“I really do think this privacy is the killer feature of the 2000 and twenties.”

“Privacy is an area of human experience that does not impact the couple negatively, especially in terms of understood or implied truth you know, between them, or agreement.”

“Historically, security and privacy has not been a good fit. You know, good security has always come with not so great privacy.”

“It is explicit in the Constitution of California that privacy is a right.”

“The utility from making the trade and basically contributing personal information the utility you get as a user is just absolutely enormous, absolutely tremendous.”

“I think there's a generational thing that's starting to play out where I think new generations of people have new expectations of the benefits of being connected as opposed to the benefits of being private.”

“And Twitter is the worst because you have this constant stream of updates. That people are sharing, and sometimes you don't recognize how much you're revealing in those places.”

“I feel like privacy is going to die eventually, like it's going to be over, we can't stop it, it's already happened sort of thing”

“So I actually think privacy is not a threat. It's a business opportunity.”