Social Graph
topic on 5 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
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9 statements about Social Graph, every show
Rabois: Social graphs are no longer defensible moats for platforms
“Well, I don't think the graph is defensible. I think there are other assets that are. I think the graph has kind of been weakened by, like TikTok has kind of shown that on social products, The graph may, certainly isn't, is not indispensable to success. It may…”
Bryan Kim: An AI-native social graph has not yet been built
“What I think is missing potentially is connection. Like this social graph, this thing hasn't rebuilt on AI yet, and That may be just a white space or something that we just continue to see what develops there.”
Komoroske: Resonance across disconnected subgraphs signals an idea's virality potential
“If something is shared and it's shared within a some of the people who were at the beginning are all highly densely interconnected in the social graph, then the implied ceiling is relatively small. You only know it works with that audience, but if it people th…”
Paik: Social graphs are becoming obsolete compared to content recommendation engines
“The social graph works and worked because of the idea that who people select for in their social graph is a proxy for their interest. And so in some ways you are using somebody's social graph as spark notes for the integral, the fully like, you know, my new in…”
Steph Smith: Social Media Shifted From Social Graphs to Interest Graphs
“Social media is not really social anymore in a way. It's kind of gone from the social graph where you followed your friends and your family, and then now it's an interest graph where you follow just things that this algorithm is serving you.”
Mignano: Social graphs are commoditized and inefficient for content distribution
“The social graph, as I said, is completely commoditized. Now, every social product that comes out can instantly have a social graph just by ingesting your contacts list, right? So you and I meet on the street somewhere. You say, Hey, Mike, what's your phone nu…”
Solivan: Facebook's social graph creates sufficient trust for peer-to-peer services
“And so I saw Facebook as a way to leverage the social graph to build trust between people. So if I could tell you that, You know, you need your dry cleaning picked up, and the person that was gonna pick up your dry cleaning was two degrees of separation from y…”
McKeon: Crypto's biggest use cases will map the social graph, not finance
“We think that actually the biggest use cases in crypto are not going to be purely financial in nature. They're actually going to be things that map the social graph.”
Temkin: Shared media content acts as an icebreaker for new social graphs
“So the content really is the icebreaker and the thing that draws people together, but then what we see is once you come in for some specific type of content, you'll branch out and we can watch that social graph develop around related content or related communi…”