Puri: Sora will replicate Facebook's viral photo-tagging growth loop
Shaan Puri · The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok · Oct 3, 2025 · at 6:02
Shaan Puri compares testing OpenAI's Sora video generation tool with friends to the early viral growth loops created by Facebook photo tagging.
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“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 picture and write their name and then You would get an email, whether you use Facebook or not, that would say, Sean just uploaded a photo and tagged you in it. And you're like, oh, I gotta go see what this picture is. Like, that's out there for everybody to see. That created this insane growth loop for Facebook. I think that's what's going to happen with this.”
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