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Instagram is automatically transitioning tens of millions of teen accounts to private.
“So there's tens of millions of teens that currently have public Accounts today that we are going to automatically transition to private accounts, unless they get their parents permission to stay public.”
Naomi Gleit Oct 27, 2024 ▶ 1:03:04 Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit
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Caldwell: Andreessen Horowitz passed on Instagram due to a conflict with Picplz
“And basically because Andreessen Horowitz had like invested in my company was on the board, even though they were investors in Instagram That was like a conflict and they didn't do the deal.”
Dalton Caldwell Apr 18, 2024 ▶ 1:04:06 Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (YC)
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Former tech CTOs have joined Anthropic as individual contributor engineers
“The CTO of Workday is just a member of technical staff at Anthropic, CTO, CTO of Instagram, Box, the CTO. Super.com CTO. They're just like engineers now at Anthropic.”
Lenny Rachitsky Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 28:28 This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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Rachitsky: NPC video game streamers make tens of thousands per day
“They're making, like, tens of thousands of dollars a day just so that's one way to make a living.”
Lenny Rachitsky Aug 20, 2023 ▶ 19:24 Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
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Stein: Snapchat initially did not permit photo uploads from camera roll
“Snapchat at the time didn't allow you to upload photos. It was like, you have to use a snap camera.”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 33:09 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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Stein: Instagram sharing shifted from public feeds to Stories and DMs
“You know, certainly in Instagram, there's been a big shift over the years of sharing into public, very large broadcast posts and feed into these more lightweight formats, like stories and DM, actually private sharing as well.”
Robby Stein Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 36:42 Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
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