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Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 12:28 Bret Taylor You can see those founders really transform from being one thing to many things.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 44:04 Rory Sutherland Well, it's all about short-term transactional, uh, bottom-of-the-funnel, um, click-through, you know, how can you shovel money to meta in a slightly more efficient way?
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 4:33 Lulu Cheng Meservey So when you see people right now covering hires at Meta for their new superintelligence, they're, they're covering what is the long-term goal of this, and how is it progressing over time, and what is it like?
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans I'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet, and Google and, um, Meta had an advantage on mobile, and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs.
- ▶ 12:13 Benedict Evans Which is you need such an enormous amount of generalized text that the amount that Google has or that Meta has is not actually enough to move, to be a kind of a fundamental difference in what you can train with. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 Benedict Evans It was very easy, actually, to get people to switch back and forth between MySpace and Facebook and Bebo and, and, and Friends Reunited and whatever the, um, um, Orkut and all these other things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:01 Benedict Evans So even the absolute numbers are faster than they were for Facebook 20 years ago, 15 years ago, because there's way more people online now, yes.
- ▶ 1:00:37 Benedict Evans Like, this was a technology that had been kind of floating around before ChatGPT, 3.5, and everyone kind of saw that it didn't work very well, and then ChatGPT works, well, no, actually it works well enough, and then there's this explosion… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:09 Benedict Evans I think meta and Google, there is this sort of big question around where the ad revenue goes and how much the ad revenue gets pulled away to different places. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:36 Benedict Evans This is why Meta made it open source, because they want to make it commodity info that sold at cost, and they differentiate on top with Meta stuff, with Facebook, social, Instagram-y stuff, and they want the model itself to be just…
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 3:50 Elad Gil Um, that'd be early Facebook, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:43 Shane Parrish Like how, how did that happen where you, you had Apple, you have Stripe, you have Coinbase, you have Facebook, you have, uh, walk me through that.
- ▶ 22:24 Elad Gil You know, a Facebook team solved diplomacy, right?
- ▶ 34:46 Elad Gil Meta, you know, um, and then mobile, the mobile revolution was probably 80% incumbent value, or 90%, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:09 Shane Parrish What do you think of Facebook? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:23 Elad Gil Think of all the stuff he's done across politics, and the Thiel fellows, and the funds, and Palantir, and Facebook, and all this stuff.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 0:16 Garry Tan You know, sometimes I sit there and I run into a bug, whether it's a Google product or an Apple product or, you know, Facebook or whatever.
- ▶ 14:12 Garry Tan You know, one of the things I feel like I learned from Paul Graham interviewing alongside him so many years was that sometimes I'd go through and this person would come in, they had an incredible resume, you know, they're like had a PhD or…
- ▶ 52:42 Garry Tan You know, I mean, sometimes I sit there and I run into a bug into in, you know, whether it's a Google product or an Apple product or, you know, Facebook or whatever.
- ▶ 1:06:28 Garry Tan And so in the same way, I think that whether it's OpenAI or Anthropic or Meta's Lab or Deep Seek or some other lab that wins, like, I think that we're going to have a bunch of different labs and they're going to serve a certain role, like…
- ▶ 1:09:40 Shane Parrish Not meta the company, but like meta as in all of them.
- ▶ 1:15:29 Shane Parrish What's your read on Facebook almost doing a public good here and spending, you know, I think it's over fifty billion at this point, and just releasing everything open source? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:17 Garry Tan Like I went to Facebook Blue app recently, and I was going to Vietnam, and I just wanted to say, okay, Meta AI, you're so smart.
- ▶ 1:56:19 Garry Tan Um, but short of that, I mean, maybe Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, 4 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:44 Shane Parrish The mastermind behind Google Maps and the former chief technology officer at Facebook, Brett reveals the brutal truths about leadership, AI, and what it really takes to build something that endures long after you've reached the top.
- ▶ 4:44 Shane Parrish One of the unique things about you is that you've started companies, you've been acquired by Facebook and Salesforce. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Bret Taylor And I think as you see, um, uh, founders, you know, grow from doing one thing to growing, to be in a real meaningful company like Airbnb or Meta or something.
- ▶ 58:24 Shane Parrish The different models competing, and then the one that really throws me for a bit of a loop is Facebook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:34 Shane Parrish Facebook, on the other hand, has spent all of this money already, and with, you know, an endless amount, presumably in sight, or, like, not in sight, an endless amount to go, but they don't have a revenue model specifically around AI,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47:31 Bret Taylor I absolutely, uh, intend Sierra to be an enduring company and an independent company, but to be honest, every entrepreneur, every company starts that way, and so, um, you know, uh, I'm really grateful for both Facebook and Salesforce for… 2 times in the scene
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 4:26 Josh Wolfe Is going to become the next Afghanistan, that that region in the Sahel, all these coups and cascades of these coups of failed states where you have Russian mercenaries, violent extremists, Chinese CCP coming in with infrastructure and…
- ▶ 24:27 Josh Wolfe My Facebook, which I don't really use anymore other than when Instagram, you know, cross posts to it.
- ▶ 26:31 Shane Parrish So aside from meta, what counterintuitive sort of public companies would you say have like really interesting data sources? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:02 Shane Parrish One, at what point do you think active managers and analysts is replaced by AI in the same way that Zuck is saying an engineer at Meta is gonna be replaced by AI?
- ▶ 1:25:05 Josh Wolfe It was, you know, but being able to search your life instantly, I think it's going to be a generational change in the same way that people were not comfortable, you know, posting on Facebook
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 26:17 Alfred Lin And so the early days of the removing of that friction was to get connected through Facebook Connect so you can check someone out and check out their Facebook pages and who they are and to see if this is an authentic person. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:31 Alfred Lin Um, other things that, you know, I'd say we try to avoid is, um, things that are roadkill along the way of a company like OpenAI or Google or Amazon or Meta.
- ▶ 1:47:21 Shane Parrish So how important do you see what Facebook's doing then, where they're spending, you know, 50 to a hundred billion, but they're making it open source?