social networks

“The biggest sin to any of these networks is artificial promotion, because you end up with a bunch of people that are actually not interested in your contact and orthogonal to what you want, and it makes the experience absolutely terrible for you.”

“The social networks are going to do the smart thing, which is they're going to say, screw it. This isn't worth the pain, right? We're just not going to like care about that. We're just going to demote this stuff just as we've done globally. Like we can't, it's…”

“So I think the mistake is this idea that, you know, if you think about figuring out what's real or not real online, it's like a hot potato. No, it's an unsolvable problem. It's a war of attrition.”

“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.”

“I think the new onboarding flow for social networks in a bot age, instead of it being like you show up, You're like, who are you? And then who do you want to follow? It'll flip around or you show up and you're like, hi, I'm Sam. And it's like, who do you want …”

“I just don't think you can build a social network where financial You know, where monetization or incentives is at the core of the network. I think people have to join these things because they want the utility of whatever the network is. And that is how you s…”

“I just don't think you can build a social network where, where financial You know, where monetization or incentives is at the core of the network. I think people have to join these things because they want the utility of whatever the network is.”

“Like every social network since forever knows that bikini bikinis are the real influencers, right? Like that's like what drives the traffic.”

“The only thing I know about a non ad supported social network is that if it really works, it becomes an ad supported social network.”

“Truth is social is dead today, right? There are no more social networks that anyone uses because everything, you know, followers don't matter. Your friendships don't matter. There's no actual functional social relationships inside of any of these systems today…”