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Gil: Startups captured 80% of Internet value, while incumbents won mobile
“So the internet was 80% startup value. It was Google, it was Amazon, you know, it was all these companies we now know and love. Meta, you know and then mobile, the mobile revolution was probably 80% incumbent value, or 90%, right? And so that was, mobile searc…”
Housel: Social Media Prevents Younger Generations From Appreciating Objective Material Progress
“I think by comparison, they won't appreciate it in greater degrees than we didn't appreciate our progress because of social media, because they have only known an era when, which not just there are some, but there are literally tens of hundreds of millions of …”
Clear restricts his Instagram to plain text as a creative forcing function
“I do this with my Instagram account. It's like a very weird Instagram account. You know, there's no photos of me. It's just text. But it's kind of like a peacock's tail, you know, in the sense that it's a very useful hindrance. Like it's very visual visual and…”
Between 80% and 98% of Dwayne Johnson's Instagram posts are ads
“When you look at The Rock's Instagram, for instance,
Count for me next time, just for shits and giggles, how many of those pieces of content are an ad for, like, his energy drink, for his face cream, for his next movie, for his, you know, XFL, for WWE.
Almost …”