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
Opinion
Troy Carter: Lady Gaga pioneered leveraging social media in music
“She was brilliant, and you know, one of the first music voices who really knew how to use and leverage social, and it really worked”
Troy Carter May 1, 2017 ▶ 28:55 Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter
May 28, 2018 positive
Opinion
Lady Gaga Was an Early Adopter of Social Media for Fandom
“She was brilliant, and, you know, one of the first music voices who really knew how to use and leverage social, and it really worked, so we started building these sort of underground followings,”
Troy Carter May 28, 2018 ▶ 29:17 Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018)
Dec 19, 2019 negative
Opinion
Systrom admits social media is not a force for kindness
“Is social media in general a force for kindness? No.”
Kevin Systrom Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 11:39 Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
Jan 9, 2020 positive
Insight
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.…”
Marcia Kilgore Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 11:42 Live From The HIBT Summit: Marcia Kilgore
Nov 16, 2020 neutral
Insight
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…”
Kenneth Cole Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 1:13:03 Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
Jul 18, 2022 neutral
Insight
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.”
Emmett Shear Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 1:15:05 Twitch: Emmett Shear
Apr 6, 2023 bearish
Insight
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.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 24:01 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Aug 10, 2023 negative
Insight
Tang: Ad and data business models inevitably force attention maximization
“Doesn't matter what you do, doesn't matter what product you're trying to create, as long as you're making money from advertisement or users' data, there's no way out. You will have to maximize their attention and time.”
Kai Tang Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 18:58 When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
Aug 5, 2024 positive
Disclosure
SmartSweets enforced a mandatory 12-hour response time across all social channels
“So across the board, we always had a twelve-hour response time for social media, whether it was DM, in our comments, hashtags, posting photos of smart suites. When we came to emails, it was 24 hours.”
Tara Bosch Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 1:01:10 SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
Oct 17, 2024 negative
Insight
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…”
Guy Raz Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 10:40 Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
Apr 21, 2025
Insight
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, …”
Evan Spiegel Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 16:50 Snap: Evan Spiegel
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Insight
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…”
Tim Ferriss Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 4:30 Advice Line with Tim Ferriss
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