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121 statements across 78 episodes · 51 bullish · 25 bearish · 30 people on the record · first statement Feb 3, 2015 by Jess Lee · said 1,123 times in 229 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Shaan Puri (646), Sam Parr (198), Chris Koerner (24), Noah Kagan (18), Ben Wilson (14), Balaji Srinivasan (14), Jesse Pujji (12), Sabri Suby (11)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 27 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand
- From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
- 4 dumb ideas that made people rich
- Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
- Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
- Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 153 mentions in 40 episodes 4 per episode
- The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”
- From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of
- Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
- Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- 32 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 286 mentions in 57 episodes 5 per episode
- Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
- How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive...
- The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
- $20M In ONE Day?! (#544)
- 5 Business Ideas To Start Today With $0 ft. Shark Tank's Sabri Suby
- How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)
- The 2024 Milly Awards
- 49 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 132 mentions in 24 episodes 6 per episode
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507)
- Facebook's Stock Is Up 43%, Jack Butcher's NFT Makes Millions & More Tech News (#418)
- Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- 3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
- Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 114 mentions in 26 episodes 4 per episode
- How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
- From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378)
- Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
- How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
- Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
- BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
- Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 387 mentions in 70 episodes 6 per episode
- Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More
- The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
- Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- Why You Should Spend 5x Your Budget on an Engagement Ring | My First Million #201
- How to Build a Unicorn Around the NCAA Reg Changes | My First Million #198
- From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
- How to Build a Community | My First Million #213
- How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193
- 62 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
- What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020
- Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality | My First Million Podcast 03-10-2020
- How to Navigate the Upcoming Depression | My First Million Podcast | 03-24-2020
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2015 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Facebook, oldest first
Feb 3, 2015 positive
Mar 12, 2020 bullish
Puri: Buying FAANG stocks outperformed top VC returns over 10 years
“If you had just brought, bought the fang companies, so Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google in the 10 years it outperformed all VCs or sorry, It outperformed even this sort of top like expected returns of venture capital. So the public market, if you just bought th…”
Apr 3, 2020 negative
Apr 5, 2021 positive
Apr 7, 2021 negative
Sam Parr: Snapchat fired Anthony Pompliano over refusing Facebook intel request
“It was Anthony Pompliano. He worked at Facebook. This is all public. This is, you can read the deposition, or I believe it's deposition... And basically, according to the records that we read, he worked at Facebook. He decided to work at Snapchat, and they sai…”
Apr 19, 2021 neutral
Puri: Early Zuckerberg chat transcripts show he favored Wirehog over Facebook
“There's chat transcripts of him talking at that time. Like, you know, Facebook's cool, but like, yeah, like I think Wirehog's the thing. You know, like, so even them, it's not obvious at that time. And whereas people try to project that these guys are visionar…”
May 5, 2021 bearish
May 5, 2021 negative
May 13, 2021 bullish
May 13, 2021 positive
May 14, 2021 positive
Jun 18, 2021 bearish
Jun 23, 2021 bullish
Puri: Next Facebook successor will be hands-free wearable camera glasses
“I think the next Facebook is not going to be an app. It's not going to be another social network. It's going to be some kind of hands-free, always on camera. So it's going to be something you wear, either glasses or a lapel or something, a fucking drone that's…”
Jul 7, 2021 bullish
Jul 9, 2021 neutral
Jul 14, 2021
Puri: Renting out time rarely creates wealth; equity ownership is required
“You'll never get rich renting out your time, which is, you know, 90 something percent of people are employees somewhere. You are basically renting your time to an employer and you'll never become wealthy or you rarely become wealthy. With that path you become …”
Jul 17, 2021 bearish
Puri: iOS opt-outs cause Facebook to miss 40% of ad conversions
“Even when you send it, you show a Facebook ad to somebody, they click it and they go buy a product from you. Facebook's only catching like 60% of those conversions. It doesn't know about the other 40% because they've opted out of tracking or it didn't work.”
Aug 25, 2021 neutral
Puri: Facebook failed in Russia because VK copied every feature in 24 hours
“And in Russia, they just could never beat VK for, like, a combination of, like, slightly political reasons, but also I've seen interviews with Zuckerberg where he's like, Dude, they're engineers. These are like the most brilliant mathematicians ever, and they'…”
Aug 25, 2021 positive
Puri: Native selfie UGC consistently outperforms polished commercials on social media
“Almost all digital advertisers have realized that this selfie style content that looks like native content, if you're on TikTok, it's got to look like it's going to be a funny or cute or interesting or amazing video. Or if it's on Instagram, it's got to look l…”
Oct 5, 2021 bearish
Puri: Antitrust enforcement will prevent Facebook from acquiring emerging rival networks
“So the next one that takes off, Facebook can't buy, and that will, because of antitrust, and so they're just gonna lose their stranglehold because that was their previous way of, like, extending their lifespan was to acquire the next best social thing and brin…”
Oct 5, 2021 bearish
Parr: Google and Facebook will lose their tech dominance by 2031
“I actually think that if you told me this could be like crazy wrong in 10 years, if Facebook and Google are not like
I think they'll exist, but if they're not like the big shots, I actually, I'll be surprised if they're still the big shots.”
Oct 22, 2021
Alpha Paw Founders Ran Zero Ads and Sent No Emails Before Acquisition
“This case the two founders were not doing any Facebook ads. There was no paid acquisition happening at all. And even though they had a, These inside customer database, they were not emailing even existing customers, let alone trying to capture, you know, a car…”
Nov 3, 2021 negative
Shaan Puri: Facebook and Twitter pay zero ad revenue share to creators
“Us, the dancing monkeys that go sit on Twitter all day, coming up with interesting ideas, giving them the interesting content. We get zero, right? So like if I go check my Twitter ad split or my Facebook ad split, and Facebook made, I don't know how many tens …”
Nov 3, 2021 negative
Al-Naji: Ad business models force platforms to keep content databases closed
“Today, you know, Facebook, Twitter you know, they're really about monopolizing content. Like you said, keeping it under lock and key so that they can show ads on it. And if they allow anyone else to build an app, like if they allow another company to build an …”
Nov 5, 2021 positive
Sam Parr: Breaking Up Facebook and Google Would Make Their Founders Richer
“If Facebook and Instagram had to compete with each other it would actually make Zuckerberg richer. Same with YouTube and Google. If they had to compete, it would probably make them better. And thus the owners a little bit more rich.”
Nov 11, 2021 neutral
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 15, 2021 neutral
Ad platforms ban zero-nicotine herbal cigarettes like Oklahoma Smokes
“You can't advertise for this on Facebook or, like, pretty much any ad network, because they don't want you advertising cigarettes, even though this is, like, a nicotine-free, tobacco-free, and he's like, so it's all just organic, like TikTok, basically people …”
Nov 15, 2021 negative
DTC customer acquisition costs hit all-time highs due to Facebook changes
“The cost to acquire a customer is stupidly high right now. It's, I think it's the highest it's ever been at least the highest it's ever been. Yeah. Correct. But particularly with the Facebook change and competition, it's just getting high.”
Nov 23, 2021 positive
Dec 31, 2021 negative
Wilkinson: Facebook Acqui-Hires Potential Competitors Solely to Shut Them Down
“Facebook basically just buys companies to shut them down. Right. They find promising social networks that might compete with them. They go buy them for tens of millions of dollars before they turn into anything. And they bought his company and it's kind of lik…”
Dec 31, 2021 bullish
Jan 4, 2022
Puri: Middle American women are the easiest audience for Facebook ads
“The easiest thing to sell on Facebook is stuff that appeals to like white women in middle America. So like, how do you sell to a 35 to 65 year old woman that lives in Texas? And like, that's the persona. That's like the most easy to fish for on Facebook.”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Dharmesh Shah: Big-name press release hires are wrong for early startups.
“If we felt like we ever hired someone that was worthy of a press release, we did it wrong. Right. That's not the kind of person we were looking for because they may have done amazing things at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, pick your company of choice, but the s…”
Jul 12, 2022
Dharmesh Shah: Most massively successful ideas are derivative rather than brand-new.
“Most ideas that have been super successful are not complete new from old cloth cut, right? They're like, and I don't like the cliche of building on the shoulders of giants, but it's like just about everything that's ever been done is derivative to some degree.…”
Jul 12, 2022 positive
Dharmesh Shah: Economic downturns are net positive for early-stage startups.
“So my position is I lean more towards kind of Paul Graham and the spectrum, which is, I think it's either neutral, that it doesn't matter. It's one of the things you're suggesting towards positive. And the positive elements of being in a kind of downturning ec…”
Sep 15, 2022 bullish
Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Sep 15, 2022
Oct 18, 2022 bearish
Puri: Record label pricing power prevents Spotify from generating tech-like cash flow
“To deliver music, you have to have the rights of the record labels. They can always, they own the pricing power. And that's why, you know, Spotify after, you know, like building the best in class product, getting everybody to use it after 15 years or whatever,…”
Oct 25, 2022
Luckey: Oculus rejected Facebook's initial $1 billion acquisition offer
“First time we talked, I think basically we were offered a billion dollars to sell. And we said, no, we're not interested. We think this company is easily going to surpass that value. We think it's not going to be a problem for us to make more money.”
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Luckey: Oculus founders maxed out multi-hundred-million earn-out in two years
“We had an earn out. That was a, it was a huge earn out. It was hundreds of millions of dollars for the founders of the company. If we could hit certain sales targets, And user user, like hours, hours of time targets. And we actually had four years to hit those…”
Oct 25, 2022 neutral
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Luckey: Facebook had unique incentives to push VR over Google and Microsoft
“Facebook was one of the very few companies that had a strong incentive to make virtual reality and immersive computing writ large to come about as quickly as possible, because unlike Google, unlike Microsoft, they did not benefit from the status quo in the har…”
Oct 25, 2022 bullish
Oct 25, 2022 neutral
Nov 3, 2022
Rose: Selling Digg secondary shares funded early Twitter and Facebook checks
“I sold a little bit of my dig stock enough to give me the ammo to go and do small C checks, you know, and put, you know, 25 K into, you know, Twitter's seed round and put, you know, 25 K and, or it was more into Facebook, but they're a little bit later stage.”
Dec 16, 2022 bearish
Shaan Puri: Campus Marketplaces Are Too Small for Venture Capital
“I wouldn't personally invest in this because I don't think it can be that big. You would have to basically take a Facebook path where you would say, we're going to go get every college. We're going to dominate that college. It's going to be like the way that y…”
Jan 24, 2023
Ali: A friend turned $50K in 2008 Facebook stock into $8 million
“Somebody else came to me and was like, hey I've got Facebook stock to sell to, and so I hooked up a friend of mine with that Facebook stock, and he bought 50 K worth of stock, And that 50 K ended up being worth, like, eight million dollars for him, which is ki…”
Jan 24, 2023
Ali: Paid $75K penalty to back out of 2008 Facebook secondary
“I signed a contract to buy some Facebook stock, like, a 150,000 dollars worth, and the stock price, you know, it was private, but in the private market, the price went down by 50%, and I called my father and was like, oh, you know, if this happened to me, And …”
Feb 10, 2023 positive
Feb 10, 2023 bullish
Shaan Puri: Invested $250,000 in Meta stock after the 2022 crash
“So I took I don't know, 250,000 dollars, like, I don't know, three or four months ago, and I bought meta because I was like, why is everybody down on meta? And I was like, did they forget the number one rule? You don't bet against Zuck.”
Feb 10, 2023 positive
Shaan Puri: Facebook talent was far superior to Twitch, YouTube, and Discord
“The difference of talent quality between we interviewed with we talked to YouTube, we talked to Twitch, where we ended up going to Facebook, to discord, to a bunch of other players. And Facebook was so much more, so much better, so much more impressive.”
Mar 28, 2023 neutral
Puri: Mark Zuckerberg recruited Stan Chudnovsky for over 10 years
“Stan's currently not at NFX, which is where, where James is, the thing that they, I think they co-founded together, maybe they didn't co-founded together, but they were, you know, they've been doing business together for 20 years. Naturally, he would have been…”
Apr 20, 2023 negative
Apr 29, 2023 bearish
Puri: Big Tech will reduce AR captioning hardware to a software feature
“And they're going to get there first, most likely, as to having the lightweight form factor. And at that point, captions might just be a feature Or an app on top of their thing. And so you're gonna waste a ton of money. I think doing, trying to get the hardwar…”
May 4, 2023 negative
Parr: Facebook algorithm changes destroyed Little Things' $100M revenue acquisition deal
“They're at a hundred million in revenue.
He had a deal sell.
They went through due diligence.
The deal was going to close in two weeks.
That change that you just referred to, it happened to Little Things.
At the time, Little Things was the most
Trafficked webs…”
May 16, 2023 bullish
Aug 23, 2023 negative
Facebook algorithm change crashed a website's sale from $200M to $30M
“He was about to get a two hundred million dollar check for the sale. And it was a, like a, one of those like click baby websites on Facebook that showed like top 10 lists. And then Facebook changed the algorithm and the sale, sale dropped from two hundred mill…”
Sep 19, 2023 bullish
Oct 13, 2023 bullish
Meta will replace Zoom as the largest work platform in 10-15 years
“In 10 to 15 years, Facebook is gonna be, Facebook, like, Meta is gonna own the largest work platform, so I think that they're gonna be the Zoom, the whatever, because this experience where it looks like you could feel like you're in the same room as a person, …”
Oct 13, 2023 bullish
Oct 13, 2023 positive
Oct 20, 2023
Haque made millions trading metaverse tokens after Facebook's Meta rebrand
“Well, aside from Anamaka, I had a bunch of other token investments, especially when Facebook renamed to Meta. Remember, I was buying up all the MetaVest coins, Decentraland, Axie, Sandbox, and so I experienced, you know, making millions of dollars, like, liqui…”
Nov 27, 2023 neutral
Parr: Facebook created the Like button from its $50M FriendFeed acquisition
“After that, he started this social networking site called FriendFeed, which he sold to Facebook. And Facebook incorporated it. And one of the big things that Facebook took from it was they actually created the like button because of it. He sold that for about …”
Nov 29, 2023 neutral
Dec 6, 2023 bullish
Puri: Plunge acquires customers on Facebook for $387 on a $5,000 product
“The CAC on Facebook, so the cost to acquire a customer on Facebook for them is 387 dollars. They're selling this thing for 5000 dollars, so you can see you're paying, you know, just under 400 bucks to get somebody to pay you 5000 bucks.”
Jan 17, 2024 neutral
Nagpal: A Facebook co-founder repeatedly took his viral personality quizzes
“One of the Facebook founders actually took that quiz multiple times. And I know that because you get their Facebook user ID in the database. So user ID number, I'm not going to tell you which number it is, is, was in our database.”
Jan 17, 2024 neutral
Jan 17, 2024 neutral
Nagpal: How Peter Thiel shielded $27M in PayPal gains using a Roth IRA
“What he did is he bought his founder shares at PayPal with his Roth IRA. So he spent like 2000 dollars to buy PayPal shares that became worth twenty seven million dollars when PayPal sold. And then he had twenty seven million dollars to just make all kinds of …”
Jan 29, 2024
LittleThings reached 250M monthly uniques and $90M revenue in four years
“And so within four years, they were the most shared website on Facebook, bigger than Viral Nova, bigger than BuzzFeed, bigger than HuffPo, all these publishers that were huge in the 2014, 15 era. And it started getting something like two hundred and fifty mill…”
Jan 29, 2024
LittleThings lost a nine-figure exit and died after a Facebook algorithm shift
“They built this entire company, littlethings.com, on the back of Facebook, and they got, ah, an LOI to sell the business, and they were literally three weeks from selling. They were gonna sell for hundreds of millions of dollars. Facebook puts out this annual …”
Feb 2, 2024
Noah Kagan: Leaking email expansion to TechCrunch led to Facebook firing
“And I let Arrington at TechCrunch know like, Hey, Facebook's opening up to at Microsoft and at corporate emails in the morning. I think you should write about it and get and talk about it. Cause Facebook wasn't going to do any press. And he wrote about it that…”
Feb 2, 2024 bullish
Feb 5, 2024
Shaan Puri: One prestige brand logo is enough to carry a resume
“And one is enough. One is enough. That's the key. I think one problem people can do is they go logo collecting. One is enough. If you got Harvard, Awesome. You don't need to also go get another MBA from some other place. Or if you have Facebook, you don't have…”
Mar 25, 2024 bullish
Mar 27, 2024
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Mar 27, 2024
Pompliano: Big tech resume cachet fades after the first 500 employees
“Working at a place like Facebook, unless you're one of the first maybe, like, two to 500 employees it kind of just is like, all right, you're, like, kind of legit. You know, you worked at a place that has some sort of high bar. But now there's 80,000 people th…”
May 15, 2024 bullish
May 15, 2024 bullish
May 22, 2024 bullish
May 22, 2024 positive
May 22, 2024 positive
Puri: Facebook crowdsourced user translations to localize globally overnight
“Facebook had to do like a Wikipedia thing. Cause there was, you know, there's 186 countries that they had to deal with. And so they were like, we need users to basically re re translate the site for their local region. And they incentivized people to do that. …”
May 22, 2024 bullish
Jun 13, 2024 bearish
Jun 21, 2024 negative
Corporate values without explicit trade-offs are just meaningless corporate posturing
“And once you go to speed without breaking things, you're now Subway eat fresh painted chicken. You're bullshit, right? It's now a unusable, non-useful value. It might be something you put on your website, but it's never going to have any weight. You're never g…”
Jun 25, 2024
Jul 8, 2024 negative
Aug 26, 2024
Pujji: Ampush got a $5M interest-free loan in exchange for aggregate Meta data
“So this guy, Peter, he's a good friend of mine now, he gave us a five million dollar loan, so we didn't have to pay any interest to our bank to do working capital, and all I had to do was basically give him a real-time feed from our Tableau or whatever, our ag…”
Aug 26, 2024 positive
Aug 26, 2024 negative
Aug 26, 2024
Parr: Noah Kagan lost $100M in unvested equity when Zuckerberg fired him
“Noah was the 32nd or 30th employee employee... And Zuck goes to his desk and he goes, you're fucking with my company. You're out. And he fires him on month nine. So Noah was three months away from his first invest. And Noah's told me, he goes, had I just made …”
Aug 26, 2024 positive
Pujji: Zuckerberg outlined Facebook's expansion roadmap in a 2005 phone call
“To his credit, he outlines the entire strategy that Facebook has executed. He goes, first we're going to go to high schools, then we're going to go to workplaces, then we're going to go into pods, then we're going to like, he had the whole strategy. This is in…”
Sep 11, 2024
Puri: Zuckerberg spent years personally recruiting Stan Chudnovsky for Facebook
“For many years Mark Zuckerberg personally tried to recruit Stan, and he always said, no, no, no, no, no. And Zuck just kept reaching out, kept trying to recruit him, and eventually got Stan to join Facebook, and he ended up running Messenger, the, you know, th…”
Nov 2, 2024
Jared Kushner Convinced Donald Trump to Treat Facebook Ads as Revenue
“That came because Jared Kushner came to him and convinced him that instead of all the other things in the campaign where consultants are begging you to spend money and it goes out the door, that you can make this a revenue center by fund by through, for fundra…”
Nov 8, 2024 positive
Shaan Puri: Content-first storytelling drives runaway growth for DTC brands
“The smart brands in the DTC space are basically content first right now. They know how to tell their story on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube, and that's where they're getting just like a sort of runaway growth compared to everybody else who just doing very b…”
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Dec 30, 2024 bullish
Shaan Puri made 500% buying Facebook against Chamath Palihapitiya's short thesis
“Chamath tweets out the growing short case against Facebook, and he says, regulation is a problem, tax is a problem, antitrust is a problem, all this stuff. I bet on Facebook I'm up five X, so I made 500% on that trade, and so basically they went anti-Bitcoin f…”
Jan 10, 2025 neutral
Early Facebook monetized by selling campus sidebar ads for $10 daily
“And at this time, Facebook was limited to college campuses. And the way that they monetize Facebook at that time was you could set up a flyer. So like I went to Carnegie Mellon, I could pay 10 dollars a day to have the sidebar at Carnegie Mellon. And it was ba…”
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Tech Employees Leak Info Out of Ego, Impatience, or Grievance
“People that would leak stuff to me that worked at Apple or Facebook, some of them were so, just so excited to say, oh my god, I worked on this thing, and it was like, and they just want it out there, and they don't have the patience, and you know, and others o…”
Mar 12, 2025 bullish
Shaan: Meta has an uncontested lead in smart glasses as rivals fail
“I think it's interesting because it's kind of uncontested right now. Like maybe Apple will get in the game. Maybe. If they still have, like, the juice to do it, Snapchat seems to have fallen out. The famous, like, I forgot what the thing was called. Magic leap…”
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Currier: Isolating in an incubator instead of joining Facebook was a mistake
“Our structure of the incubator wasn't super network centric. It was creativity centric. It was isolated a little bit, and that was a mistake. And had I gone and worked at Facebook and learned more about that ecosystem, or had I gone and become a venture guy or…”
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Alex Hormozi: Simple 60-second iPhone narrative ads work well on Meta
“Advertising works. It's not like meta ads don't work, right? It's like you just needed to get the process down. But if you just do a very simple narrative ad with your iPhone demonstrating the product and the problem that it solves and keep it under 60 seconds…”
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Oct 3, 2025 neutral
Oct 3, 2025 bullish
Shaan Puri: The next major wave of AI applications will be multiplayer
“Every AI tool right now is single player. He's like, ChatGPT is just a tool you use yourself, and same thing with the image creators, and same thing with almost all of the tools are still single player, but the internet has showed us that, like, all the most p…”
Oct 3, 2025 bullish
Oct 3, 2025 bullish
Puri: Sora will replicate Facebook's viral photo-tagging growth loop
“And if you remember one of the big growth levers for Facebook was when they introduced friend photo tagging. So they made it super easy where not just you could upload photos. That's a solar player experience, but when you could just click on somebody in the p…”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Isenberg: Open-Source AI Video Is Already Viable for Commercial Ads
“I mean, it's 100% good enough to use in ads. Now I wouldn't use, you know, Tyler Swift in an ad because you might not get approved by Meta, but, you know, people are using JFK You know, JFK and Plato and you know, things that are in the public domain that you …”
Nov 19, 2025 negative
Puri: Bebo Messenger hit #3 globally with 1M week-one users before collapsing
“We built a messaging app that got to number three in the worldwide charts, I remember, above Facebook, which was kind of incredible, but Had no retention. Incredibly viral, but no retention. I think we got a million users in the first week or something like th…”
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Horowitz: Facebook Executives Attempted a Coup in 2007 to Force Yahoo Sale
“The Facebook traffic had flattened and
The current, the executive staff that he had at the time was trying to run a coup to force him to sell to Yahoo. So they were leaking all this stuff to Valleyrag at the time and Valleyrag was, you know, calling for Zuck t…”
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Parr: Instagram videos generate substantial revenue despite maxing at 80,000 views.
“You don't need that many people to watch it. Like I'm seeing it's changing our, like, we're getting customers. I've made a lot of money off of it already in a very short amount of time with very few views. I think my most popular thing is getting like, 70 or 8…”
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
DHH: Surveillance advertising monetizes low-intent traffic by targeting identity over context
“Surveillance Capital flipped it on its head that it did not matter whether intent was there. If we know everything about everyone at all times, all that matters is eyeball time, because now we can pinpoint whether an ad should be shown or not shown on the basi…”
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Apr 22, 2026 positive
Meta's Dave Wehner: Jeff Bezos Gives Full, Unbroken Attention in Conversations
“He's one of the only titans of industry who I've ever met. When he looked me in the eye, he was never looking around to see who else was in the room. And he was like, I was a little, kind of a small fry compared to all the people who could be around. He looked…”
Apr 22, 2026 positive
Meta's Dave Wehner: Mark Zuckerberg Is Even-Tempered and Never Lashes Out
“He said he's a pleasure to work for. I swear to God. He said he's even tempered. I'm not joking. This sounds like I'm brown nosing. He said he's even tempered. He's like, man, he's been a great boss. Like he's been, he never like is lashes out. He has always e…”
Sep 7, 2026 neutral
Yeung: Meta ad buying is commoditized; creative assets now handle the targeting
“Ad buying is like a commodity, right? Now, yeah, before, a few years ago, you have to be really, really good at ad buying, but now Meta does all of that for you already, right? You don't need to do the targeting. You don't need to do all this stuff, right? All…”