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Harris: Safety controls on open-source AI models can be removed for $100
“I won't go into technical details, but basically for about a hundred dollars, you can retrain all the safety controls off of it.”
Best: Facebook charged creators to build audiences then charged again for reach
“And this had happened with Facebook pages at this point. They created a thing where people spent all this money getting people to like their Facebook page on the assumption that that meant they'd built up an audience. And then they said, oh, just kidding. Actu…”
Early Facebook ads let brands link page likes directly to in-store purchases
“They could track if you liked a page on Facebook and They could track that, link it to your wallet, and find out what type of products you were buying at the store.”
Wales: Fake news sites have had almost zero impact on Wikipedia
“Those kinds of sites have had almost zero impact at Wikipedia because while, you know, they might do well to share on Facebook something that comes from a publication called the Denver Guardian because, well, it looks like a news site, and Denver, everybody kn…”
Krieger: Instagram was Facebook's first acquisition allowed to operate independently
“We were the first company that Facebook acquired and sort of kept running, and then since then you've seen Oculus and WhatsApp, and, ah, I think there were a lot of things that we figured out early on in terms of the relationship, the office space, hiring and …”
Facebook acquired entire design agencies to grow its internal team
“You know, Facebook was acquiring entire design agencies to try to make their design team bigger.”
Instagram grew from 40M users at acquisition to over 1B
“You know, we sold it and it was how many million users? Maybe 30 or forty million users. And we got it to over a billion.”
Warby Parker Crowdsourced Early Frame Choices on Tumblr and Facebook
“And then, like, our community would, like, help them pick, and that was, like, a big thing on on Tumblr and Facebook. Like, we would basically crowdsource what frames people should buy, and we just built this, like, really loyal, really engaged community, and …”
Krieger: Instagram was the first company Facebook acquired and kept running
“We were the first company that Facebook acquired and sort of kept running, and then since then you've seen Oculus and WhatsApp”
Mullenweg built a pre-Flickr photo website using open-source PHP script Gallery
“Well, I used some open source software called Gallery, and it was a PHP script that would allow pre-Flickr, pre-Facebook, pre-anything to post photos and have galleries online.”
Melanie Perkins recruited Canva's CTO using a deck of his Facebook photos
“What I did was I went To his Facebook page, and I took lots of the photos from his Facebook page, and I put together a pitch deck and said why it would be such an amazing adventure to come and join and recreate the future of publishing and change the face of t…”
Raz: Thiel's $500K Facebook investment turned into over $1B in eight years
“Well, Peter can probably thank Reed for helping him become a billionaire, because back in 2004, Reed introduced Peter to a young entrepreneur who just dropped out of Harvard. Peter decided to give that dropout 500,000 dollars in angel money and Of course, you …”