Twitter

“There's an, so I've debated on my show literally Mark Cuban about this whole story before it became obvious what this was, and I appreciate the apology he gave me on Twitter yesterday.”

“And actually with the Codex app the team who initially got it up and running and we're working on it we're super, again, user focused, tight iteration loop, really dog food at the thing, like mainline to the app as much as possible to get get everything right …”

“They had two bidders going for them at the time. And that was very, very interested in them at around, I'll say within 20% of that number, and, ah, one of them was Twitter, and the other one was TikTok, the founder of ByteDance, and founder just, you know, he …”

“If we were to look at purely social media, like if you really, you know, if I were, you know, if I had to really pick, Facebook likely is interesting because I actually do think it is most sort of a default version of people because you go to LinkedIn, it's ve…”

“Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal.”

“He bailed out his XAI people. He bailed out his Twitter people. He bailed everyone out, right? So Elon gets to be the guy who makes everyone money, and if you're a SpaceX shareholder, you're like, whatever, you kind of got robbed on a few things, but number bi…”

“Clubhouse, I believe had an acquisition offer at some point from Twitter to be acquired for like multiple billions of dollars. They turned it down and Twitter ended up cloning. Clubhouse and it worked.”

“If you look at my Twitter, like posts as an example, or even my LinkedIn, it is the exact same thing. Remix every 90 days, like full stop. That is all that's happening. And that, when you get enough information, like a bigger enough corpus, you have, you basic…”

“The first one is like, if you truly find product market fit, like if you managed to bottle lightning, doesn't matter how badly you screw up the organization of it.”

“What I definitely learned is like most of the time you hear it's really complex. It isn't leadership's just weak.”

“People in Japan tweeted six times more often than people in western markets, and it was largely when we spoke to them because kanji lets you say heaps more in the same number of characters than you know, a romance language did.”

“What's broken now on the social platforms is that my followers don't see anything I post unless it goes medium viral because everyone is now in the algorithmic feed. So I follow someone. It's just like this little drop in the signal and it kind of breaks that …”

“Twitter's influence is amazing, but it tends to be elite kind of inside group influence. I think Instagram, Facebook still, YouTube, Is where you get to the early majority.”

“The platform has so much staying power. Like it's really hard to replace. Like you can change the name. You can destroy the brand and you, and the platform will still be very valuable.”

“As three inveterate Twitter junkies here, we know what the action is, and it ain't on threads, okay?”

“So we believe that Suno has, you know, I'm using this term loosely, but unlimited upside potential. You know, if you look back at the history of media on the internet, and you think about the generational platforms that truly democratized a medium, right? YouT…”

“That if you truly had the American internet or, like, the French internet, this can be global in various ways, it is so much more moderate than what you get on Twitter, right? Like, it would, like, it would be so much more moderate”

“We got a billion views in three months, and all we did was take news from other platforms and put them on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram in a manner that Jen's guest didn't understand it.”

“Most people hear agent and imagine a fully autonomous employee. And that's how you get these demos that you see on Twitter and they don't really work and it ends up being a bad business.”

“Claude or ChatGPT is probably less polarizing than Blue Sky or Twitter.”

“Saying, Biden is obviously too old, Democrats, you're gonna lose unless you replace him. Like, that, even though it's a stance that, like, literally 80% of voters agreed with, will make you, like, seem like a heretic on Twitter.”

“When I talk about AI or when I conceive information about AI on tech Twitter, it's obviously very techno-optimist. We're excited about it. With anything being blasted to mainstream, there's Always a lot of skepticism around big tech, a lot of skepticism around…”

“We build a connect with Twitter, working with the team in India where consumers can check in on Twitter. So you didn't have to go to an airline website. And the thought process that time was, at least the way I thought was, you got to be where the consumer is.…”

“There was this broad perception on Twitter that was much more exaggerated than what actually happened within the business.”

“The Twitter debt was a resale of the financing debt that was offered when Elon bought the company. Morgan Stanley sat on it for a while. It was deep underwater. When it got close to par, they decided to sell it. Most credit investors were really scared and ner…”

“Twitter's, Twitter's just, growth has fallen off, it's shrunk 50% since he bought it.”

“Like, honestly, the worst job I ever had was being the head of HR at Square. So I ran these financial services products, and I ran HR. And the HR job at Square Could have been okay, but for the fact that Jack is running Twitter, and any time that there was dra…”

“My advice to people who are having taken a company public before and are about to do it is you need to prep the team for, hey, we're about to go into a world where the price of the stock can change even though nothing particularly happened today. Like the stoc…”

“We could even have beat top line And EBITDA. And grown, you know, bottom line more than we said we were going to grow it. But if we missed an MAU number, the stock would be down.”

“I think Twitter's text posts are, have been extraordinarily resilient. It was like, it's like this, you know, it's ability to survive The changes in the way people use TikTok and reels and social media.”

“For all of the crap it takes, it is really good at certain, very, very specific things. It's an idea-finding mechanism. It's really good.”

“Twitter proved it, right? Cutting 70%, and then it's running better or as good as it was before.”

“Posturus was dead simple blogs by email. It grew to be a top 200 website on the internet, and then Twitter ended up buying it for about twenty million dollars, so that was sort of like my first bag, really.”

“What really happened at Twitter was that the advertisers, you know, I don't know what the situation is now, but they pretty much conspired against him, and, you know, it had nothing to do, my understanding is it really had nothing to do with the cost cuts, mor…”

“And so like you look at the usability of the platform and the teams, the engineering teams are much smaller and they're innovating a lot faster.”

“Under the prior administration included things like global engagement center censorship efforts that were the subject of the Murphy Supreme Court litigation, where the State Department Along with other organs of the executive branch would contact Twitter or Me…”

“Like, we have seen tech workers make decisions, for example, that you should, it should not be permissible on Twitter to call a convicted sex offender, a male, which he is.”

“I would argue that it's the most consequential moment in terms of Elon buying Twitter, kind of, you know, displacing the trust and safety team there and kind of, you know, changing, I would say, the kind of nature of free speech for a lot of the country with t…”

“All the platforms are penalizing outbound links. You know, I think ex-Twitter has gotten a lot of, took a lot of heat for this, like, Elon did this thing that's like, what, now everyone has to post the link in the comments below, but the truth is, like, they'r…”

“Which why I think VCs don't have the best, I think, information landscape, because a lot of them just live on, on Twitter, but the world is much larger than that.”

“Would I prefer, on a standalone foundation model, lab bet, would you prefer to own Entropic than X.AI plus Cursor plus the Frankenstein of Twitter? Yeah, you would, but at least it's a full-stack story now.”

“Sometimes when you see these screenshots on Twitter that they're not always fully honest themselves in terms of where they came from, either because there's some memories that Are behind the scenes that tweak the answer in a certain way or hidden instructions …”

“Right when we launched Cowork, I think one of the users that went most viral on Twitter X was clean up your desktop, which is of course silly. That's such a smart thing, right? Like you don't need a model to clean up your desktop.”

“Elon owns Twitter now. It's X. Yeah. Right. Pre post is like a massive difference in the mix of sort of ideas that can get out there. And again, you're allowed to be optimistic about things where maybe before everything had to be negative”

“There were these founders that had been admitted to Y Combinator. It was like these two 18 year old kids. And essentially they had forked some technology, some AI wrapper essentially, and they didn't read the source licensing for the code. And essentially they…”

“When I invested in Twitter in 2009 there was 30 something people, no revenue.”

“Twitter could have been infinitely a more interesting company, but VCs got involved and created politics, and they fired Jack Dorsey early, and I don't know if that was right or wrong, but they created issues, and the company was pretty messed up.”

“We did that investment less than 30 days from the time I met the team and the time we closed, and it turned out to be a watershed investment for the company”

“They not only kicked him out of Twitter, they tried to write him out of the history, and I know this very well because I was reading at the time The reports, and they would mention Biz, and they would mention Ev as the founders of Twitter, and they would omit …”

“Both engineers and PMs, 70% of people said they are enjoying their job more. And about 10% said they're enjoying their job less. Designers, interestingly, Only 55% said they're enjoying their job more, and 20% said they're enjoying their job less.”

“Text isn't the best interface for ads. Obviously visuals are generally better.”

“Because you can't do Twitter without getting canceled a few times. You can't do Twitter without getting hate a few times, without people saying the meanest things about you for the world to see. You can't, you just can't do it without it. And no, most people d…”

“I find that there is an increasing level of hating the successful, hating the rich. I see it on Twitter. I think in Europe it's even worse, but it's come to America, unfortunately.”

“So it has zero access to my Twitter account. And so you want it only access to things where can't really mess things up and it's not susceptible to trickery.”

“And, so we sit there and we're like, yeah, cancel the cards. Immediately, I get three back channels from software companies who are like, hey I know you're helping Elon. I saw a story in the New York Times. Our bill stopped getting paid. Can we come in? And I'…”

“We have emails that have leaked from some of these NGOs. So one of them, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Which is a British NGO whose leader was the target of some of our visa sanctions. There are emails exchanged with Democratic politicians in the Uni…”

“I mean, hilariously, Barack Obama had a follow back bot on Twitter, I think throughout his entire presidency.”

“You know, I was, you know, I was an angel investor in Twitter angel investor in LinkedIn, you know, they both, you know, became kind of key parts of the censorship machine at certain points.”

“I don't mean the whole Twitter build in public where you document the process of you building your SaaS. I genuinely think that's a whole bunch of rubbish, but that's my personal opinion on it.”

“If you want to make money, LinkedIn is your best shot. Twitter is cool, Instagram is cool, but LinkedIn is so much better. There's just not, no competition at all.”