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Laffont: ChatGPT lacks inherent virality unlike historical consumer apps
“I guess, by the way, those apps had inherent virality, as you know. I mean, you're kind of the expert of that. This doesn't. This has no virality to it.”
Gerstner: Meta AI productization is just an unimpressive search box
“As incredible as I think Zuckerberg and Meta are and the advancements they made, I have not particularly been impressed by the productization of Meta AI, right? It's basically just a search box stuck at the top of Instagram or stuck in my WhatsApp thread.”
Gerstner: Buying Perplexity Would Cannibalize Google Unlike Meta's M&A
“With Instagram and WhatsApp, it was not, they were not facing innovators dilemma. They, those deals did not cannibalize their core business in the way that perplexity would cannibalize, at least in part, the core business at Google.”