Mark Zuckerberg

“I feel like this could be net positive for Mark's reputation.”

“Les, this is so stupid. I'm still looking over this patriarchal blah blah blah bullshit, and like, just let two women figure this out together.”

“I think, more importantly, at this phase, it's a media circus, and I think everyone's playing into it, and I think both of them are playing into it, because it's good for their platforms.”

“And it was a lot about, we had actually just had an engineer that took down the entire site, and the engineer was feeling absolutely terrible because the, you know, the change he made in the code caused us to lose some ad revenue that day. And Mark was looking…”

“And so I think when you think about, there's a whole story about open versus closed, distributed power, distributed risk versus centralized risk. But it is funny that this week we had the Zuckerberg letter in Lama three talking about, let's make sure we decent…”

“Cause it turned out almost none of them became Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel's monopoly thing didn't really play out, right? Outside of like one or two cases.”

“All of this suggests that he's gone hard right.”

“At Facebook when I was there, You know, we kept switching between a functional design, right, where like PMs report to PMs all the way through up, and like product groups. We say, okay, this product cluster all reports through this person. And the basic conclu…”

“And I think it's interesting that the Chase Center was not even remotely full. Like, we had 6000 people or so that showed up. That's a place that can hold, what, 30, 40,000? And the, you know, the boxes were largely empty.”

“You know, I think like Elon is a complicated character, but he just candidly, he just seems angry. Right. In a lot of ways.”

“It's hard to not say that this is a year that Apple, to be less bullish on Apple, not more bullish on Apple, and shockingly more bullish on Mark and what's going on at Meta in terms of being like, oh my God, did these guys actually start producing hardware”

“I don't honestly think Mark is looking at it. I think he's just doing what he wants, and that's great. I think he just really wanted to record a song with T-Pain.”

“All you have to do is look at Facebook's data set to know that like these types of pop culture moves are what drives engagement, right? Like MMA drives engagement. It just elected the president, like these types of things. T-Pain is having a huge resurgence in…”

“I think that he's a leader on a global scale, almost on the scale of the American president.”

“I actually think from a first principles perspective, this is the right thing to do, and it has been for a long time. It was a mistake to go down moderation in the first place. And this is an incredibly opportunistic moment where, oh my God, it's actually poss…”

“Behind President Trump's family was not his cabinet members or, you know, people who have served in his administrations in the past, but the CEO of every major large tech company, except Microsoft, which we could circle back to Bezos, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Elon.”

“For me, the meta story is it's like in the perfect position. They have no liability around this stuff because they're not Google. They have no search business. Like they don't like, they have the perfect use case for AI, right? Which is Optimizing ads and atte…”

“If the Democrats take the House, we're talking in 20 months, there will be a corruption committee convened, which will have Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and whoever talking in great detail, but every penny that was directed, and, you know, and I t…”

“I think it's just, like, in some ways cool that Zuck still has enough control of the company to, like, make shit happen like this, which clearly, like, is mostly just in his interests.”

“We put it, yeah, I mean, we fixed with the viewers couldn't hear us, but our control room, we could hear the control room. So while I was interviewing Mark, the control room, which was melting down, was in both of our ears. So actually we both did that intervi…”

“Look, and I say this as a huge, enormous fan of his and believer in him and, like, the whole thing. I just, it's not as crisp as make the world more open and connected.”