The Ledger
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Morin: Jeff Bezos's wedding injected $1.2 billion into Venice's economy
“It brought up 1.2 billion dollars to the Venice economy.”
Brit Morin: AI companies are spending $332 million on Super Bowl ads
“Guys, three hundred and thirty-two million dollars from AI companies alone.”
Lessin: The Information transitioned its internal search function to GPT
“Yeah, the information search function already, we moved over to like using some GPT based stuff.”
Brit Morin: One-third of all Amazon sellers are based in China
“Do you know a third of Amazon sellers are Chinese?”
Lessin: Snap stock is trading below half its IPO price
“They're all the way back up to less than half of their IPO price.”
Dave Morin: Path achieved one billion timeline views daily at peak
“The social network that I built, we were doing a billion timelines view a day at peak.”
Brit Morin: Life360 Is Uniquely Interoperable Across Apple and Google
“And it's really the only app and network that is interoperable across Google and Apple.”
Dave Morin: ByteDance moved the TikTok feed into CapCut
“And I noticed a few weeks ago that they've also now moved the TikTok feed into CapCut.”
Lessin: Apple used the Vision Pro T-Rex demo to pitch Bob Iger
“I didn't watch it yet, but I knew about that because we reported in the information that that was the moment when they demoed it to Bob Iger.”
Dave Morin: Facebook Platform Attracted Nearly One Million Developers in First Year
“Once we put the distribution incentive in place, suddenly, you know, we had close to, I think a million developers in one year.”
Brit Morin: Mattel will open an Arizona theme park in 2024
“It's opening a Mattel theme park next year in Arizona, by the way, to start driving its experiential business.”
Sam Lessin: 'Adventure capitalist' term first appeared in the Communist Manifesto
“Marx goes on and on about the adventure capitalists and how the adventure capitalists. At least that's the first place historically I've ever seen. I ever saw it.”
Morin: U2 altered Sphere show because visualizations put audiences into trances
“They actually had to during the U two residency, they had to slow down the show for like the middle, 45 minutes because it was putting people into a legitimate trance and they had to change all the visualizations because it was too much.”