internet

“There's nothing you are good at all of a sudden because the communities went from being locally bound and physically bound to infinite and digital. And in that world, what you're seeing, I think so much is explained by this because I think what you see is one,…”

“If you take a huge amount of data and play guess the next word, you can do amazing shit with translating languages, and it's super valuable. You can, for sure, make more compelling ads. Like, you can make, Fake porn that, like, is really titillating. Like, you…”

“The reality is the economics and the incentive of the internet are as an entertainment machine, right? And that's actually what we've been able to instrument and optimize. That's what the incentive structure works like that.”

“The internet's doing a very terrible job at distributing this stuff to people right now.”

“The internet is going back away from feeds to destinations”

“What's now happening, I think is that like our generation owns the internet, right? And the younger generation desperately wants to own things. They're searching around. Okay. Is it crypto? Is it AI? Like we need a narrow, they need something valuable, but the…”

“I think that the IRL experience realm is more interesting than a lot of VCs give it credit for, and we're still waiting. I don't think there's like a waiting thing there. The problem is it's so high friction and so non-scalable, and such a shitty business mode…”

“The internet is so big that like anything you do IRL is just going to be like an irrelevantly small number of people.”

“In a constrained mass media environment, you're super, super scared of like one wrong thing going through the pipe, right? In, in internet era, the reality is like, it's just noise. It just raises the volume of more noise there.”

“And also the reality is almost all Google searches are for like six things, right? Like the internet is actually much smaller. People's demands are much smaller than people think they are. The internet is very large, but the actual used internet is actually qu…”

“In 20, 21, the average daily time spent on digital video on the internet was three hours. Four years later, it's like Four hours. So it's increased by a significant amount just in four years.”

“Europe's largely killing the internet right now.”

“The internet is very large, but the actual used internet is actually quite small. And so I do wonder to what degree that this is a little bit of navel gazing of all these great uses for I'm going to do all these great things when the reality is, Is like, peopl…”

“That like you have this thing where like, oh, you want to have it both ways. So you think it's okay to break the economics of the underlying internet you're leveraging, but then you're mad that someone's doing it to you.”

“The internet was supposed to be in like technology. Everyone had this vision that it was going to be this decentralizing force, and it's hilariously done exactly the opposite, which is it's hyper centralizing. Like technology turns out to be hyper centralizing…”

“One is between like engagement and the, on the engagement side, just for pure entertainment, you don't care what's real, right? Versus truth and information where the network and who's saying things and sources really matter. And it just turns out the internet…”

“I think we're going to get desensitized, especially with AI porn of all of us going on the internet soon.”

“The problem with the internet and the economics of internet is that the best strategy is to always be more extreme, right? And the way, like, because what happens is any extreme you pick, Eventually that with so many people online, there are too many people in…”

“And both Sam and I are separately sitting there thinking the internet has killed this art because, which we realized later when we brought up the point, because basically these people who, you know, in their world would have been like the juggler, the town ren…”

“And like, you know, I think with the follow on of the internet, what happens with that is it forces everyone towards the fringe of weirder and weirder stuff to right size communities. They can be the best of blank and whatever. And so you end up with like thes…”

“The reason the internet is valuable is because it's an economy. It's not valuable because of technology. It's valuable as an economy. And that economy was set up in such a way to pump interesting information and unique commentary into it and like products and …”

“Now that you can generate anything you want on the internet for free and that like the internet's just like full of infinity content, I do think actually these offline, truly offline experiences like are going to become extremely valuable.”

“It's like, you can't stop this from moving cross border. Right. And so the basic point with all this stuff, again, is like, it's one thing if you're just like, okay, like the Chinese models are bad. And like, we're going to put up a trade embargo on like copyi…”