Shaan Puri predicts Kevin Systrom's news app Artifact will fail
Shaan Puri · The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415) · Feb 3, 2023 · at 2:06
Sean Puri reacts to Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom launching Artifact, an algorithmic feed app described as 'TikTok for text and news.'
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“I don't think people want to read a bunch of news in the same way that they're willing to like swipe through mindless videos for entertainment. And so I think that's where Has this problem that a lot of Silicon Valley ideas have, which is they try to sell you what you should do instead of what you want to do, and it sounds noble and high and mighty, and when they go to dinner parties and they say, this is what we're gonna do, everybody, you know, pats them on the back, but I think that this is not gonna work for news, so I'm out.”
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