Tech Platforms
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Snyder: Employees Deeply Distrust the Confidentiality of Corporate Software Platforms
“There's still tremendous amount of distrust when it comes to tech platforms that a company is deploying and the anonymity, the confidentiality of the interactions that you're having with that which I think in, in some cases is unfounded and in others is well-f…”
Thompson: Publishers must rely on tech platform incentives, not goodwill
“None of these partners can be trusted, right? Not because they're bad people. They're good people. They're friends of mine, right? They, but they're capitalists, and they're self-interested, and they would rather they make money than you make money, and if you…”
Nadella: Tech platforms stay relevant only by tracking developers and startups
“If you don't follow, Where developers are going it's hard to sort of be relevant in terms of tech platforms, and then you really need to understand the new workload in order to build a tech platform. Those are the two things that at least I've kept, and so the…”
Nash: Tech observers suffer survivorship bias regarding enduring platforms
“We have a survivorship bias. We are remembering the big platforms that continue But what tends to happen is we lose focus on the last generation, two generations, three generations ago of winners, and a lot of them get folded in to other companies”
Sam Lessin: Tech platforms should never attempt to moderate private groups
“Under no circumstances should you be trying to moderate private groups. That's a terrible idea, right?”
Suleyman: Nuanced Platform Liability 20 Years Ago Could Have Reduced Polarization
“And I think that had we taken a little bit more time to debate that and think it through, then some of the emergent effects that have to do with this kind of, you know, spreading of misinformation, this very polarized and outrage driven environment that we now…”
Dixon: Tech platform abuse is pushing developers toward crypto protocols
“Meanwhile, you've got a whole group of developers who have been, frankly, kind of abused by platforms for a decade. You just arbitrarily get banned, you know, or if you're lucky, you get to pay them 30%, right? So there's a deeply unhappy group of developers a…”