social media
12 statements across 12 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2017 by Troy Carter · across every show →
Everything said about social media, oldest first
May 1, 2017 positive
May 28, 2018 positive
Dec 19, 2019 negative
Jan 9, 2020 positive
Kilgore: Founders must listen to social media attacks instead of getting defensive
“Customers will attack you all the time, especially with social media, right? So you will get onslaughts and onslaughts of people criticizing you, and you have to actually take it and think, you know what? Listen to them, because they're telling you what to do.…”
Nov 16, 2020 neutral
Modern consumers view themselves as brands rather than buying fashion brands
“People don't buy brands today, I don't believe. I think people recognize today that they are their own brands, and every day they wake up and they curate their own brands on their social media. And they don't just curate the content, they also curate the audie…”
Jul 18, 2022 neutral
Shear: Content cannot go viral on Twitch because broadcasts are ephemeral
“Unlike most social media, You can't really go viral on Twitch. It's almost, because it's live, it can't go, you can't get to, oh my god, look at this, millions of people see it. It's like, however many people saw it, it's over.”
Apr 6, 2023 bearish
Yassin: It is impossible to build a 30-year business on social media
“You cannot build a business on top of social media. Impossible. And so, so this idea that Facebook will be my livelihood, and I can build an empire for the next 30 years, thanks to Facebook's algorithm, is, is a dream that will never materialize.”
Aug 10, 2023 negative
Aug 5, 2024 positive
Oct 17, 2024 negative
Raz: Claims of 'authenticity' in marketing usually indicate the exact opposite
“I think that, that the more it's used, the less actually authentic something or someone is. And you often see this on social media where people say, be your most authentic self. And I think to myself,
You're standing in front of a camera, and you are acting, a…”
Apr 21, 2025
Spiegel: Snapchat grew via close-friend networks rather than broad social graphs
“Yeah, and it was different than social media virality because social media virality is very network-based, right? You would want to have the largest graph possible, but the reason why Snapchat was able to grow is because you really wanted to use it with your, …”
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Ferriss: Individual willpower cannot beat social media engagement algorithms
“For the last, I'd say, two, maybe three years, I've had no social media apps on my phone, because if you think you're going to use discipline to beat teams of, you know, computational neuroscientists and statisticians and computer scientists who are, have bill…”