Mark Zuckerberg, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mark Zuckerberg comes up
Token pricing
- ▶ 13:59 Benedict Evans Well, we've just seen Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg jump in from zero in the last six months. 2 times in the scene
The spring updates on AI
- ▶ 5:18 Benedict Evans Well, so this is, so this is, these are quotes from Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar actually from last year saying, you know, for those companies, the risk of missing this is bigger than the risk of over-investing.
- ▶ 25:09 Benedict Evans You knew the internet was going to happen, but, you know, we knew Larry and Sergei were in grad school, were undergraduates, and Mark Zuckerberg was at junior high.
How does OpenAI compete?
- ▶ 16:32 Benedict Evans Because in tech, Meta was like, Lama was a joke, and you know, they screwed it all up, and Mark Zuckerberg had to go out and give people a hundred million dollar salaries to get back in the game.
- ▶ 18:33 Benedict Evans Mark Zuckerberg is in junior high or elementary school or something.
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 6:15 Benedict Evans Yeah, well, you know, it's a, it's a famous story that, that Mark Zuckerberg asked, um, Mark Andreessen, what was Netscape?
Apple's Vision Pro
- ▶ 9:00 Benedict Evans I mean, when Apple announced the things, it was Mark Zuckerberg said, well, there's nothing in there that we don't plan to do.
Threads
- ▶ 0:32 Benedict Evans Um, Elon Musk took it sufficiently badly that he threw a, um, a far right insult at Mark Zuckerberg and then suggested that they measure their penis sizes.
- ▶ 10:16 Benedict Evans And Zak has said very explicitly, no, we think this can be a billion people.
- ▶ 40:03 Benedict Evans All the people who jump into a mention saying, you know, that saying that, that, that Martin Zuckerberg is the
Vision Pro, two weeks on
- ▶ 9:52 Benedict Evans And so Mark Zuckerberg, a couple of days later, kind of an internal all-hound, said, well, it's kind of a relief. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:55 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, there was, it was a moment years ago when, um, Mark Zuckerberg, when, when Facebook was trying to do, this is the early days of Android, like, 2013, 14, so 10 years ago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:21 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, there was a story that Peter Thiel had kind of gone and chatted at, at, at, at Mark Zuckerberg and said, stop wasting all this money on this stuff.
How many metaverses?
- ▶ 2:30 Benedict Evans And, um, it's the next platform, and we are sort of, on that view, we are sort of where mobile was in sort of 2002 or 2003, and this is why Facebook renamed themselves Meta, because Mark and a bunch of other people there think that this is…
The future of Twitter
- ▶ 34:03 Toni Cowan-Brown And if you look at Mark Zuckerberg, that job doesn't look fun at all.
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 19:51 Benedict Evans But, but it gets you to these sort of interesting questions of, well, if you don't have Mark Zuckerberg to say, we're going to do X and Y, this is a problem.
The Meta reality
- ▶ 0:14 Benedict Evans So Mark Zuckerberg has been talking about metaverse for quite a long time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:27 Benedict Evans And so if you, you know, Zuck, I remember Zuck saying this when they launched it and thinking, but that's, yeah, I know why you think it's a social device, but that's not how I look at my phone. 5 times in the scene
Bezos and the Amazon machine
- ▶ 0:46 Benedict Evans Um, I thought, like, the interesting place to start, like, a couple of throwaway observations, um, because a journalist had basically asked me this the other day, and this is the framing I came up with, is, um, that this leaves Zuck as the… 5 times in the scene
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 5:35 Benedict Evans Um, there was a weird thread a while ago of somebody saying, I spoke to Mark Zuckerberg, and he said he watched, he likes to play Civilization and watches other people on the internet play.
- ▶ 9:22 Benedict Evans And certainly that's why Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 41:36 Benedict Evans I mean, I wrote this about the newsfeed that, um, Zuckerberg's law plus Dunbar's number. 2 times in the scene
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 3:55 Benedict Evans You can argue that the FTC got a whole bunch of internal emails, but frankly, for them to say, oh, we had no idea that Facebook thought Instagram was a competitive threat until we saw this email from Zuck.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 21:26 Benedict Evans And like, that's not what Zuck says, but like, from a financial point of view, they are not making money out of this.
What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles
- ▶ 2:43 Benedict Evans So with streams of comments from random people around the side and like swear words and people attacking Mark Zuckerberg in the side as Boz is talking about the Facebook VR product.
- ▶ 21:52 Benedict Evans And there was a, um, you know, internal document from Mark Zuckerberg where, you know, he's talking about why are we buying this thing.
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 5:56 Toni Cowan-Brown Is what happened last week, and it, it's a weird parallel, but I think it explains a lot, which was, so last week, Zuckerberg and Facebook announced that ahead of the 20 20 elections, they were gonna, um, won't let people place new…
- ▶ 12:33 Toni Cowan-Brown It's interesting that piece about the role of government, because I think this was what was surprising to me with the announcement last week of Mark Zuckerberg saying that for the week before you won't be able to run any advertising is the…