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Palmer Luckey was pushed out and fired from Facebook for supporting Trump
“This was when he was kind of persona non grata in tech and mainstream for supporting Trump and not supporting Hillary while he was at Facebook. So it was pretty soon after he was pushed out, fired for political beliefs at Facebook, which is kind of mind blowin…”
Spiegel: Meta needed Luxottica partnership to camouflage its unpopular brand
“I think Meta needed to partner with Luxottica because the Meta brand, I think, is not something that people want to put anywhere near their face. So I think I think that Meta really needed it. I think what's, what's challenging for Luxottica is they took like …”
Leone: Meta might not exist today without its Instagram acquisition
“Think of what Meta would be Without Instagram. That company might be gone.”
Foroughi: Only AppLovin, Meta, and Google have mastered true advertiser arbitrage
“And if you do that, and what I call performance marketing is that make the advertiser an arbitrage. Very few people define performance marketing as that, and very few companies have executed. Facebook's done a fantastic job of it. Google, part of their busines…”
Spiegel: Early Facebook Was an Unfun Popularity Contest
“The way that everyone was socializing on Facebook was like a giant popularity contest. So it wasn't fun, right? I mean, everyone was competing for how many friends they had, how many likes they had. Everything was about pretty photos.”
Iovine: Meta and Ray-Ban made a good smart glasses product
“I don't know this company. I don't know the guy. I don't know anything, but I try to pair in those new Facebook Ray-Ban glasses. They made a good product.”
Ek shadowed Mark Zuckerberg for a week, attending all his meetings
“I asked him, hey can I come and learn from you? And he was incredibly gracious and we've obviously been friends for a long time, and he said sure. And so I spent the better part of what I believe the first time was like a week literally in pretty much all of h…”