social media

“And so, it stands to reason that 10 years from now, like, you know, yeah, bots really suck today. They're awful at their job. And so, you know, 10 years from now, we're gonna have a bunch of amazing bots, like, you know, commenting on all of our stuff, and.”

“The most scalable successful orgs in the world largely are number go up machines. Wall Street is a number go up machine. Social media, or like I said, media in general. One of the nice parts about it, like, is you just A, B, test your way, and a number go up, …”

“This is probably going to have some pretty wild and potentially bad knock-on effects globally. Just slight ones, because I think a lot of countries are like, wait a minute. All the social media is American. How do we feel about, if America doesn't like TikTok …”

“Listen, I don't follow shit anymore. I just get things fed to me, like a pig. It's just whatever comes up next.”

“You basically want, I think the idea is like in a social media context, designing content, That isn't going to go hyper viral broadly, but ideally most people will hate, but exactly the right people will like is kind of the zone you want to be in.”

“I think the data is abundantly clear. The science is, like, pretty hard. It's like really good science, and the science says that I think we're doing irreparable harm to an entire generation, and that it's a national mental health emergency, and that we have t…”

“I think I tend to look at data for these sorts of things. And I think the data on a lot of these topics is pretty weak.”

“All the things that used to be social networks turned into social media. You know, and so how we thought about networks versus broadcast shifted pretty dramatically, and there's probably still room for interesting networks.”

“It's like, you kind of just need to drop the word social from social media. It's just media.”

“The thing that's interesting is there's no different than social media, which is people say shitty things to each other on the internet. And like the interesting is liability moving, like how it moves, right? Because all of a sudden it's not the liability with…”

“The way I think it's similar to social media is that you need a new ad format that doesn't exist yet.”

“50% of Spotify wrapped users, so people who, like, open Spotify wrapped, share the results to social media.”

“And so my theory has been that if you take up a bunch of the spots in your mind with people who aren't your real friends, Then we, when you go off into the real world looking for your real friends, you're going to wonder where they are. And so I think that the…”

“Well, so I've been doing this experiment for the last three to four weeks. I just fully, fully quit social media. I've deleted it entirely.”

“If that's actually the purpose that most news serves for people is conversation set pieces to yell, then like it's actually fulfilling its purpose very beautifully. It's just unfortunately very not aligned with truth.”

“The thing that the social media does is it monetizes like waiting in lines. It monetizes like, people are less angry at the airport because of TikTok. Right? Because they just sit in their fucking seats and, like, doom scroll, and then they're, like, not angry…”

“Around 20 14 ish is when we hit critical mass of a billion people on social media and a billion people on smartphones. Since then, it's been really hard to create a meaningful brand that lasts more than like a drop in the bucket for a couple of years.”

“And I think that what's happening inside of whatever you want to call it, social media or tech writ large now has kind of jumped the shark, lost the bit. Like it's no longer culturally interesting, I don't think.”

“There we are in a moment right now where people's relationship with their phones in particular is deeply like filled with negative emotion, right? Like people want out of the ecosystem. It's like the combined ecosystem of social media and phones, I think has p…”

“These are actually the most sophisticated and most influential form of social media ever created.”

“Probably under 21, you shouldn't be allowed to be on social media. It's that bad for mental health.”