social networks

also referred to as: social network

5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2021 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 18 times in 13 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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May 5, 2021 negative
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Balaji: Early social networks became zero-sum status games without crypto value transfer
“Social networks were invented and scaled 10 years, seven years ish before cryptocurrency. And so because of that you could only transfer status online And not value. And what that means is that everything basically boiled down to status games, leaderboard, wha…”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 9:50 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
May 5, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Balaji: I underestimated social networks by dismissing early platforms as frivolous
“I underestimated, when social networks were basically voyeurism and exhibitionism and time wasting and zombies and so on, I did not really think through their social impact”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 2:05:46 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
Nov 3, 2021
Insight
Shaan Puri: Early conversations on new social networks are 70% about the platform
“Anytime you build a social network, at first, 70% of the conversation on that social network is about the social network.”
Shaan Puri Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 57:13 The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
Nov 3, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Al-Naji: Next social wave will separate blockchain backends from apps
“I think that with this kind of next wave of social, I think what we're going to see is kind of a separation of concerns where you have this blockchain, which is the diesel blockchain that powers, you know, kind of the back end of all of these things. And then …”
Nader Al-Naji Nov 3, 2021 ▶ 6:28 The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
Oct 17, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2043
Puri predicts social networks will eventually be user-owned via crypto tokens
“I think I would bet that in the long horizon, let's call it 20 years These networks will be built in with, these networks will do this. They will have a currency for the users on the network. And so the users will, the users who contribute to the network will …”
Shaan Puri Oct 17, 2023 ▶ 17:31 Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
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