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“This was actually what I was working on when I was at Facebook, I had a side project. Me and a few guys were in Atherton, and we got kicked out of Atherton because we were making so much noise. But we were building a project called ASRAM, the assisted ramjet, …”

“We were like 45 people when the Facebook acquisition was announced.”

“Model view controller leads to centralization because technologically we couldn't represent global state. We couldn't decentralize the database. Okay. We had to have it a central hub like a Facebook or a Twitter or a PayPal which are great companies. Don't get…”

“I mean, I looked the top nine out of the top 10 sites on Facebook are conservative sites with Donald Trump and Hannity and Ben Shapiro and others.”

“Facebook has information that Instagram is causing depression and anxiety about teenagers.”

“I don't, Think that Facebook should have been allowed to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp.”

“In fact, you know, in the book I write about how I thought it was a mistake for Twitter to take down some of this stuff about Hunter Biden or Facebook to do that. And I think that story was total hogwash. I think Joe Biden was unfairly attacked because of his …”

“Like I take the side of Meta on if we are not able to connect small businesses through advertising to the people that are interested in their products, we have a worse world.”

“I totally disagree with Dustin Moskovitz's thing where he's like, oh, you can work 40 hours a week and be just as successful. I'm like, I know they were working 90 hours on Facebook for the first several years.”

“Like we originally went after Facebook when there were white supremacists organizing through Facebook groups and we track Extremists. We saw them doing it. I brought up the company's attention. They didn't act. And that was why we said advertisers should pause…”

“Corporate America, you're seeing again, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Facebook, Meta, all dropping a lot of their DEI and ESG policies.”

“I actually posted about it myself right when it happened, and my Facebook account at the time, I don't have one anymore, but my Facebook account got throttled for talking about the lab leak because I thought it was the obvious thing, and they censored me on th…”

“When you're running a big org, if you can articulate to a person or a team, make this number go up, right? I don't care how you do it, just make this number go up, right? And if this is going to be doing a good job, that actually allows for an incredible amoun…”

“The reality is the internet in general, not just Meta properties, not just Facebook, but the internet in general, it's an incredibly good machine for engagement and attention, right? It's incredibly entertaining and why it's incredibly easy to measure. You can…”

“You know, I'd actually argue in the last bunch of years, the factory shut down. Right. Because what happened was in the public markets, everyone came to realize that you'd rather just put more money into meta than back the five billion dollar baby Public compa…”

“He and a bunch of my friends have a school that's, like, sort of anti, anti-woke, because the school of Facebook was super woke, and so they all had to, like, build something else.”

“I would argue Facebook was probably even worse. YouTube may have been worse. We don't even know, but.”

“I remember they had to ask Peter Thiel if you, if he could be openly gay for the Facebook board because it was important to count for the number of people.”