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Rodney Comegys – The Mechanics of Indexing at Vanguard (EP.498)
- ▶ 36:34 Rodney Comegys Facebook came public, and the story was Facebook's going to go to the moon and beyond. 3 times in the scene
Gavin Baker – Truth-Seeking and Crossover Investing at Atreides (EP.489)
- ▶ 31:05 Gavin Baker And then I reengaged with venture right around the time Allen and company started bringing growth stage equity opportunities to big mutual fund managers, which is so important to own Facebook privately in 2010.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 25:05 Jonathan Lewinsohn Then you can feel comfortable that not only do you have a really important company of consequence, the Metas, the Amazons, the Microsoft, the Googles,
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 44:59 Alex Sacerdote There was a view that, oh, the whole finance industry would be rebuilt on top of the blockchain, or we're going to rebuild search on top of the blockchain, or we're going to make a blockchain version of Facebook where no one has our data,…
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 43:07 Josh Wolfe You've got Facebook issuing twenty-five billion dollars of debt. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 Josh Wolfe Coincidentally, Meta bought that for a little under a billion dollars, started by this guy Reardon.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 46:00 Ted Seides And there's another, say like a meta
Anthony Pompliano – Building Influence and Capital to Live an Extraordinary Life (EP.430)
- ▶ 5:16 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Pomp's passion for competing, leading, and problem solving, formative business experience at Facebook, translating lessons to build a social media audience, and
- ▶ 10:57 Anthony Pompliano When I went to work at Facebook, I was a product manager, and a product manager's a very interesting role at a company like Facebook, because technically, the engineers don't report to you, the designers don't report to you, the data…
- ▶ 13:58 Ted Seides So take me through to your time at Facebook. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 Anthony Pompliano And so I first started working with a team that was focused on Facebook pages, which is kind of their business product.
- ▶ 19:10 Ted Seides How'd you take the lessons of building up Mark and Cheryl's Facebook following to doing it for yourself? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:19 Anthony Pompliano I learned this at Facebook. 4 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 14:30 Alexis Ohanian The extent of it was Facebook, which was still in colleges.
- ▶ 53:40 Alexis Ohanian There's definitely a Facebook demo that is getting duped on the daily, which is hilarious, but if you're a sophisticated internet user, you're like, ah, something's a little off.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 8:50 Chris Dixon And then over the following decades, new services were created like Facebook and Twitter and Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:52 Chris Dixon In the 2000, RSS was a legitimate competitor to Facebook and Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:38 Chris Dixon And I think there's a similar thing with blockchains and in many ways blockchains are the bizarre to the Facebook cathedral. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:24 Chris Dixon And then of course the next five years with Facebook and everything else changed that, but at the time it wasn't.
- ▶ 33:29 Chris Dixon When can we get to the point where someone can come along and relatively easily create a social network that really truly rivals Facebook and Twitter from a feature point of view, but also offers economic incentives and better take rates…
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 8:42 Magnus Grimeland The most visible one on campus was Facebook. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:56 Magnus Grimeland You go to Silicon Valley, you obviously have the PayPal mafia, the Facebook mafia, and so on.
Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
- ▶ 45:48 Brad Jacobs So we use a platform called Workplace by Facebook. 2 times in the scene
Michael Carmen – Late-Stage Private Investing at Wellington (EP.332)
- ▶ 16:56 Michael Carmen And being able to talk with a Brian Barbata who's covered the internet and social media stocks for the last decade and take that know-how, what he's learned from covering meta and
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)
- ▶ 45:23 Chris Douvos And so he sat out, and then that fund ended up being the Facebook fund, and I look like a jerk, right?
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 4:53 Ted Seides He's been a successful serial entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:05 Avichal Garg You see this Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:16 Avichal Garg Look at YouTube and Facebook versus the newspapers or the TV companies. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:10 Avichal Garg Running your business day to day is going to be different to community building and customer acquisition, which is very different in this space because many of the traditional customer acquisition channels you can't use like Facebook and…
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 6:01 Regan Bozman This was kind of like a few years after Facebook had come out and like, it definitely still was not cool to be into startups and entrepreneurship.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 7:25 Chris Dixon With web two, you democratize publishing, and that was services like Twitter and Facebook. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:09 Chris Dixon Twitter and Facebook have zero dollar revenue share. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Chris Dixon Just going back to the 2000, if you told even the most bullish people that Facebook would be as big as it is today, I think they would think you were crazy.
- ▶ 20:26 Chris Dixon And of course, as I mentioned, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, zero. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:25 Chris Dixon So for example, two interesting ones were spin outs of Facebook DM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:47 Chris Dixon And you'll see a lot of people who, you know, I finished Stanford computer science, and now I'm going to go work at Facebook for four years. 2 times in the scene
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 31:52 Olaf Carlson-Wee Could we build an open source Google that is competitive with all of the proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms that Google and Facebook and the other big tech companies have by using an open source protocol to reward people that…
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 17:02 Stephen McKeon Facebook, Google, Netflix.
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 57:00 Sahil Bloom Like Facebook existing meant that MySpace was not going to exist, but very few markets really have that.
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 10:06 Roseanne Wincek What everybody with half a PhD in biophysics does, which is start a company that made Facebook apps back in the crazy Facebook app days, which was really fun until it wasn't like I was kind of that entrepreneur that Renato was talking… 3 times in the scene
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 10:01 Arjun Sethi There was this inflection point where I had contracted with Facebook, I had contracted with MySpace, Google and Orkut open protocols. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:26 Arjun Sethi And so if it's users, if it's usage, if it's integration, it's like number of share count on Facebook, it was something called an object that changed it over time.
- ▶ 25:34 Arjun Sethi And so what I give credit to this for Chamath, he built his team at Facebook this way.
- ▶ 1:01:38 Arjun Sethi But one thing that never changes, and we've seen that across every company, we've been a part of Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Lyft, et cetera.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 23:20 Josh Wolfe I literally had my kids sending video messages to try to convince Reardon and the team and the board to not sell to Facebook. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:07 Josh Wolfe You have people that were born and raised in Nigeria and Ghana and Kenya who have gone to Silicon Valley and trained at Stripe and Google and Facebook and Amazon and are coming back, and they're coming back
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 29:13 Aydin Senkut I just want to tell you that everybody thought for the longest time, Googles and Facebooks can only happen in Silicon Valley, but very quickly it became more democratic and international.
- ▶ 39:39 Aydin Senkut But one of our biggest advisor was from Facebook and Facebook was their first major client.
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 38:30 Ted Seides What's been the place in this ecosystem for all of these technologists that have done incredibly well because they were early at Google or Facebook or Amazon and they have capital and they want to be involved.
Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- ▶ 27:58 Jamie Montgomery This is where Facebook first presented.
Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- ▶ 14:48 Justin Fishner-Wolfson Facebook was a much smaller company back then.
- ▶ 17:47 Nat Frazier But another company you mentioned that you saw at Founders Fund was Facebook. 4 times in the scene
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 18:29 Bill Trenchard He's now running a lot of the entertainment products at Facebook.
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 32:24 Jordi Visser Right now, 18% technology without the F-A-A-M-G, but when you add Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google as a separate group, that's about 23% of the S&P.
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
- ▶ 41:57 Stefan Kaluzny They're staggering numbers, but we've embraced influencers in Hot Topic in a way that has evolved from even three years ago where we had embraced traditional social media, Facebook and Instagram, and that had evolved from
Daniel Graña – Janus Henderson Investors Emerging Markets Equity (Manager Meetings, EP.13)
- ▶ 49:05 Daniel Graña I underappreciated that when social media first showed up on the scene, I had to join Facebook to understand what is it that people are talking?
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 59:56 Jonathan Lewinsohn And he uses a lot of Facebook and Google data that he was given to analyze like really interesting things, such as how weather impacts people.
Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- ▶ 53:52 Alex Rodriguez MySpace was first, Facebook won.
Dan Ariely – The Human Capital Factor (Capital Allocators, EP.195)
- ▶ 39:40 Dan Ariely What does it mean to work in Google or Facebook right now when we question their role in the destruction of democracy and all kinds of other things?
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 10:59 Jesse Walden So like, repaste it on Facebook.
- ▶ 14:18 Jesse Walden So one way to think about what's happening with NFTs is we're building this universal open media library on top of which any developer can build the next Spotify or build the next Instagram or build the next Facebook.
- ▶ 54:00 Jesse Walden Again, when you contrast today where only the developers who work at Facebook or only the developers who work at Twitter are
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 25:55 Jeff Hausenbold Many of us have come out of Facebook or Airbnb or
- ▶ 30:02 Jeff Hausenbold And then the success of Silicon Valley and the success of the first wave of companies from Cisco and eBay to the second wave of Facebook and Twitter to now the third wave of the DoorDashes and the SoFi's and the Airbnbs are leading people…
- ▶ 39:18 Jeff Hausenbold And I think 88 passed when market Facebook was looking to raise capital, right?
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 50:14 Paul Salem Chairman of the board of a amazing nonprofit called Europe and Europe takes inner city kids, urban young adults, and we get them jobs in places like Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 36:18 Chris Dixon Or Facebook made some commitment, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:13 Chris Dixon I don't have a Facebook account.
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides Chamath previously was an early employee at Facebook, a prolific angel investor, and co-founder of the venture capital business that was the first version of Social Capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Chamath Palihapitiya And at that point I joined Facebook and I worked there for the next four and a half years or so, five years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Critical growth areas, and in charge of mobile, in charge of international, in charge of the Facebook platform, so I had a really broad scope, but yet again, it was sort of me bumping up against my own psychological landmines.
- ▶ 9:19 Ted Seides What did you learn in your time there that led you to leave to go to Facebook? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Chamath Palihapitiya And so at Facebook, we created this very famous committee called the Conflicts Committee. 3 times in the scene
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 32:07 Morgan Housel One of the examples I use is Mark Zuckerberg was offered a billion dollars to sell Facebook to Yahoo in I think, which at the time, it was like getting a billion dollars for your two-year-old social network. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:46 Morgan Housel Like in the last 10 years, it's been Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix.
James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- ▶ 1:05:40 James Aitken I do not use Facebook.
Peter Kraus - Widening the Aperture on Alpha (First Meeting, EP.14)
- ▶ 1:13:15 Peter Kraus They're posted on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 58:36 Beezer Clarkson I don't know if Facebook and Instagram are fair places to do diligence on people since it becomes so personal.
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 47:16 Gregory Zuckerman They compete with Facebook and Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Gregory Zuckerman I try not to get caught up in fights on Facebook, but, and my wife tell me all that. 2 times in the scene
Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12)
- ▶ 1:04:36 Jason Karp I haven't looked at my Facebook in probably five years, so I'm not in the conventional channels.
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 17:42 Ash Fontana And she managed huge engineering teams at Facebook and VMware and whatever else.
- ▶ 18:32 Ash Fontana And to us, it was really obvious, because we'd all been in the technology industry for a couple of decades each at that point, and everything from Mark working in that Stanford AI lab in the early eighties, to me working on a big data…
- ▶ 1:02:44 Ash Fontana Don't get me wrong, like, DeepMind is an amazing institution, and Google has a huge amount of talent, and so does Amazon and Facebook and Microsoft and whatnot.
- ▶ 1:09:49 Ash Fontana Like, I haven't been on Facebook for many years, and on Instagram, I follow people that weld bicycles, but that's about it.
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 29:28 Jonathan Tepper So Google and Facebook essentially are an ad duopoly in terms of the ad market. 8 times in the scene
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 8:16 Joe Lonsdale There's this long list of things, and of course, Peter was also at the time a big investor in Facebook, so I got to know the Facebook founders really well. 2 times in the scene
Matt Whineray – Leading New Zealand Super Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.108)
- ▶ 55:32 Matt Whineray So, big group of investors who are concerned about this issue where, and so that engagement is with the likes of Facebook and Google and Twitter, aimed specifically at preventing that distribution and live streaming of those things.
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 23:16 Scott Kupor World like Amazon or Facebook or others, and then there's of course other stuff like financial services that has been obviously heavily dominated now by new innovation and software, and that's led us into lots of other industries over time.
- ▶ 33:38 Scott Kupor We all want to win, and so when there is the A round for what we think is the next Facebook, we're each going to go basically put our best foot forward, and we all have our playbooks about how do we sell effectively our own wares, and how… 2 times in the scene
Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107)
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 6:30 Mike Novogratz You know, you didn't have the internet back then, you didn't have Facebook, and so, like, your little universe was a big universe.
- ▶ 38:42 Mike Novogratz And, you know, listen, will Facebook be the guy, you know, Telegram is something to watch. 3 times in the scene
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 1:16:34 Ash Williams And the number of people I know, and I see this in my own kids, whose idea of understanding the news is whatever their Facebook feed tells them, that's scary.
Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 11:02 Paul Rabil So at the time where Facebook had just launched its fan pages. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Paul Rabil So while people used to grow up in the same market where they lived the rest of their lives and go to the local ballpark, and they had that geographical affinity because teams and leagues were far bigger than athletes, you fast forward to…
- ▶ 33:55 Paul Rabil We were certain we were going to get a network deal, because we had all the interests from CBS, NBC, Fox, Turner, ABC, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter.
Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
- ▶ 29:57 Jordi Visser One of the major reasons was because we had this shift to where these mega companies, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft, all of them dominated from the oh eight period.
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