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“I think we'll have more smaller teams and there'll be less people who manage thousands of people. And so That's not that that job will go away, but that will be less of what I'm looking for in hires because I'm gonna have less roles like that.”

“I think that you can imagine at least in a year or two. Coming that the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as their salary or their cost of employment.”

“Because we've done chronological by default and where you can make a default and you see not only does usage go down, overall sentiment goes down. The individual who made that choice might be happy at the moment, but when you just get pummeled with stuff you'r…”

“In a world where there's an abundance of synthetic content, I actually think people are going to seek out creativity and authenticity and people more, not less. And I think that that will help us. That doesn't mean that we won't have AI content on our platform…”

“We had a redesign of feed that went to the video viewer. That was a test to four percent of users on iOS. It was a not, it was not going to roll out.”

“If you look at how teens spend their time on Instagram, they spend more time in DMs than they do in stories, and they spend more time in stories than they do in feed. Yet people think of Instagram as a feed, and it's the third most important Surfers at best. M…”

“We're growing really fast. I think we're growing the fastest of the big players.”

“I actually think some of our strongest product staff are going to be converts from design and from data science who are just looking to expand their reach.”

“If you take out all the text, there are more photos and videos shared in DMs than there are shared in stories. And there's way more shared in stories than there is in feed.”

“We make a post Internally, and one out of eight employees reads it, and we move on with our lives, and we're surprised when the whole company doesn't move along with us”

“The safety and integrity work, we were running too much of our own stuff and not leveraging the much larger teams at Facebook and in the central teams. I think there were more engineers that worked on safety and integrity at the company at the time that then w…”

“All of the growth has been in, in stories and in DMs over the last five years or so. And to the degree there is growth in feed, it's all in video, it's not in photos in a lot of ways.”

“Notes are, you know, basically aim status, but better looking at the top of the inbox. Anybody above 20, like, doesn't use them very much. Unbelievable how much they've moved Instagram engagement overall, app level engagement for teens.”

“Reels is, I don't know, maybe pushing 50% of time spent in the app at this point. Not quite there.”

“Months, many months, minimum.”

“I think costs will go up because we'll just be using more tokens, not because the prices will necessarily go up, but then I think prices will come down because all of these frontier models are gonna be in a bit of a pricing war.”

“I think parents should be approving what apps to kids specifically are downloading onto their devices. We've been advocating for this at a policy level for a long time at Meta.”

“The median number of new apps, I read this somewhere, installed a month, is zero for the average person.”

“Instagram is the, it's the most popular in the creator community, as far as we can tell. So the most creators use it.”

“That number for Facebook back in the day varied wildly by country. Like in Japan it was like six, and in Indonesia it was a 106 or something bonkers.”

“So it'll be, the two things I'll focus on most for the next year will be the creator community, specifically, not only how many of them use the app, but how many of them share the app as a place for their creativity, and then retention for the average user.”

“So my first year, I had to hire a head of design, engineering, product management, data science, research, HR, communications, marketing, and a COO.”

“It was what, it was probably a small, it was a, it was less than one percent of the users who used it, but that's still, you know, millions of people.”

“Early Facebook days, before we had photos, people just kept changing their profile picture. Like every day, multiple times a day. I'm like, oh, sounds like people want to share photos. Maybe we should build that.”

“We will build over time, I think, a graph sync option. So if you want Just to have the same graph, you can, and we can make sure that stays in sync for you.”

“When I first started, We had this amazingly talented group of designers, I don't know how many there were, eight, somewhere between eight and 12 of us, and they just did whatever they wanted.”