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Maples: Startups Without Inflections Cannot Build Radically Transformative Businesses
“Either it embodies an inflection. You just haven't thought about it enough, or it doesn't embody an inflection, which probably means you're solving present pain for present customers for present unmet needs. And you might build a reasonable business doing that…”
Facebook Killed Twitter's Vine Platform by Blocking Video Sharing
“Facebook effectively killed off fine by preventing that from being shared, which was Twitter's video platform. Facebook wanted to own video.”
Bozman: Superior technology cannot dislodge DeFi protocols with established narrative dominance
“We've seen a lot of More efficient versions of a lot of these DeFi protocols and very few of them have gone anywhere because once these teams have a narrative, once they have people talking about them on Twitter, it's just very hard to like come in and break o…”
Dixon: Twitter shutting down its developer ecosystem was a mistake
“Twitter decided to shut that down because they decided to pursue an advertising business model, which I think was a mistake, but that's what they did.”
Dixon: I would leave Twitter if I could take my followers with me
“If I had that same ability on Twitter, I'd switch off of Twitter. I'd switch C. Dixon on Twitter to something else because I don't like how they run that service. They have spam and a bunch of other things, and I'd like to switch and take my followers with me,…”
NZ Super Fund leads $10T investor coalition on social media moderation
“Post the Tragedy in Christchurch, we, together with another group of the New Zealand Crown Investors. We got together to lead an engagement with the social media companies about the, well, aimed at preventing the live streaming of objectionable content and sub…”
O'Shaughnessy: A High-Quality Twitter Following Functions Like Having an AGI
“That having a big, smart, diverse group of people that follow you on Twitter is literally like having an AGI. I believe that that is true. It's the best search engine in the world. So if you're looking for something, ask a big group of people, you're going to …”
Social Media Platforms Face Severe Problems from Pending Parliamentary Scrutiny
“And when it comes to social media companies, the House of Commons Digital Media Committee has been holding hearings in London and Washington about the role and activities of these social media platforms. And not just because I'm personally interested in it, bu…”
Sacca: Invested $25K into Twitter while employed at Google
“I wrote a check into Twitter while I was still at Google for 25 K. And that was one of the things I needed that money back. So I would show up at the company and work my ass off to try and make it more valuable because that wasn't break off 25 to be polite sit…”
Dixon: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pay zero ad revenue to creators
“Twitter and Facebook have zero dollar revenue share. Instagram is zero dollars. So Instagram makes all their money on advertising. They pay zero out to the creators.”
Cocke: The greatest value of financial Twitter lies in private DMs
“A lot of the magic of Twitter happens behind the scenes on DMs. And I have since become, I would say, very close with maybe 10 new people in my network. I trust their insights. I trust their feedback. I share ideas with them. We meet in real life. And disclose…”
Paul: Twitter Serves as the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto Traders
“Crypto Twitter is the best aggregator, which is to say, if you follow the right 50 people on Twitter, any time a good article's put out a good anything, it ends up getting posted there. Twitter is the equivalent of Bloomberg for a lot of crypto traders”
Dixon: Media consumption should be treated like a diet with books as protein
“I have this idea unpublished blog posts. I call media keto. The idea is think of media consumption, kind of like you do with food. And I think of social networks, like reading Twitter and things as like sugar. Reading the news, I consider sugar. I don't read t…”
James Clear: Choosing what to consume directly shapes your future thoughts
“Almost every thought that you have is downstream from what you consume. And so when you are choosing Who to follow on Twitter or Instagram or whatever. When you're choosing what books to read, what news station to watch, or what articles to read, you are choos…”
Quantitative investors leverage Twitter for superior peer feedback
“I think this is why so many quantitative investors use social media and Twitter especially, is Because the feedback on your ideas is so good, and the knowledge sharing is so good. And so I think that it's like going to the best section of business school.”
O'Shaughnessy: 30% to 50% of Top Thinkers in Any Field Are on Twitter
“Something like, 30 to 50% of the most thoughtful people in that domain are gonna be on Twitter talking about what they do.”
Trigg: WCM hired an analyst recruited from an anonymous Twitter account
“We hired somebody two years ago that we actually originally found on Twitter. He had a Twitter handle under a fake name. He was someone that we followed, we liked. It was very much, in a way, Paul's experience with me in the newsletter, just saying things that…”
Rochester's investment team strictly avoids using social media for investment operations
“Zero. I don't see a use for it. So we don't use Twitter or Instagram or I had a LinkedIn account. It was a personal account, which I didn't find useful. So I got rid of that.”
James Clear aims to post one tweet daily to test newsletter ideas
“My only objective with Twitter is I try to share one tweet a day. I don't always do it. I try to send one a day and it's a way for me to get feedback and see like, oh, what resonates with people or, you know, what doesn't. So that's like one way to potentially…”
Hamilton's board chair and foundation head follow her on Twitter
“So I ended up disclosing it. The chairwoman of my board follows me. The head of our foundation follows me. I told my boss about it as he was being onboarded because I want people to feel really confident that they can trust me to not speak for the institution …”