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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…”
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…”
Balaji: Digital networks decoupled geographic proximity from cultural proximity
“So if somebody lives in a city, in an apartment building, they often don't know their next door neighbors, may not even recognize the person who's living 50 feet away from them, right? Literally this person is living, eating, sleeping there, but you walk down …”
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…”
Puri: Businesses dominating a single closed market can replicate across similar ones
“A lot of businesses are like this where they're what I call pond businesses. It works in one pond. It'll work in all ponds. Businesses like any app that takes over a high school will actually be able to take over every high school.”
Mark Zuckerberg personally coded Facebook Poke to combat early Snapchat
“So Zuck, when Snapchat came out, I remember that he recognized the threat that was Snapchat so early on, and created Facebook Poke. He literally wrote code into the Facebook Poke, like, their competitor that they, I think they released it in nine days, or like…”
Puri: Justin Caldbeck was an early investor in Snapchat, Grubhub, and Stitch Fix
“He was an investor early on in like Grubhub, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, like Boom, like just like a bunch of companies that have done really well.”