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Coogan: Meta and YouTube Shorts will capture 99% of TikTok's time
“I really think like 99% of the tech talk. Time spent on that app will flow to Meta, YouTube Shorts, and then Snapchat, I do think will be a beneficiary, but maybe they capture five percent of like the bleed over.”
Coogan: Zuckerberg Promoted Joel Kaplan to Global Affairs President
“That executive's name was Joel Kaplan. Mark just gave him a promotion. He is now the company's president of global affairs and nobody at the company seems to care”
Coogan: Meta Ended Its Internal DEI Program
“Meta ended its DEI program, and Mark appeared on Rogan to basically apologize for all the censorship.”
Coogan: Bullish on Meta releasing a Vision Pro competitor with movie support
“Super bullish for Meta because they're clearly going to release like something that's equivalent. They just need to figure out the media. Like you should be able to just buy any movie on any Meta headset. And I don't know that they have a partnership yet, but …”
Mark Zuckerberg executes and envisions long-term better than original product creators
“Many of their most popular products were copycats of other products that were succeeding. Yet simultaneously, if you look at the red book, he has had this sort of like decades long vision for his company that only a generational ideas guy could actually have. …”
Coogan: Meta's Early VR Bet Doesn't Matter on a 30-Year Horizon
“Everyone agrees that that's, that that bet is very early. Yeah. But it just doesn't matter if you have a thirty-year timeline.”
Hays: Facebook's Red Book created billions in startup economy value
“The Facebook Redbook has been the same for the startup economy in many ways. So it is not just a little book. There's been billions and potentially trillions of dollars of value created from this source of wise wisdom.”
Coogan: Meta exec apologies to Palmer Luckey reflect genuine regret, not expediency
“I think it's, it is impressive, mostly because they didn't need to do this. Like, Palmer is not in charge of Meta. Meta is bigger than Anderl, and sure, they might want to align a little bit more with the new administration, but I do think that there's a genui…”
Coogan: B2B SaaS base hits reliably return venture funds over social media
“You couldn't just build a whole fund around social media investing, because if you missed Facebook, you were done, but you could build a fund around B to B SaaS, like base hits that were essentially Decacorns. And if you can build a business to ten billion dol…”
Hays: AppLovin cannot rescue brands failing on Meta ads
“If you're not making meta work, well, you're not app loving is not just going to like solve all your issues. Like it's a marketing, like excellence. It's a skill issue basically. So. You're not just gonna, like, suddenly transform your business by going over t…”
Hays: Equity crowdfunding on Facebook can yield $10 for every $1 spent
“Companies figured out if you spend a dollar on Facebook, you can drive 10 dollars of investment, so why would you not just Do that. It's like an infinite money glitch, basically.”
Hays: Zuckerberg's public image will suffer from arrogance and AI controversies
“I'm short on his public image because I think him getting cocky again and wearing shirts that say Zuck is inevitable, and Meta still being, like, basically at, gonna be at the epicenter of all this drama around AI and, you know, generated content and all this …”
Coogan: Meta's Orion prototype costs $10,000 with a two-hour battery life
“Meta announced this Orion prototype. It costs 10 K to produce right now per unit, and it has like a, like maybe a two hour battery life.”
Coogan: Meta bought a 5 percent stake in Luxottica
“And Meta, I think they bought five percent of Luxottica”
Hays: Meta's Muse will probably see strong adoption if integrated into Instagram
“And so if Muse works its way into Instagram, which a lot of people do use, it'll probably get a lot of adoption. If it's a separate app, it's a little bit trickier.”
Hays: Meta will eventually put ads into Muse AI agent
“They can get, I, they haven't monetized it yet, but they gotta put ads in this thing, and will they do agent of commerce?”
LA jury awards $6 million in Meta and Google youth addiction case
“On March, 25th, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google slash YouTube negligent for designing platforms harmful to young people. A woman who said she became addicted to social media as a child was awarded 6000004.2 million against Meta and 1.8 million against…”
Coogan: Meta Built Two Data Centers Specifically to Power Reels Algorithm
“They built two extra data centers to be able to do the Reels algorithm, because if they didn't have that compute capacity, they could not have launched a competitor to TikTok on any normal time frame, because it was actually a compute intensive project, not ju…”
Kim: Meta Will Need Six to Twelve Months for Further AI Progress
“It's going to take time. It's going to take six to 12 months before we see any more progress.”
Google Admitted Lacking Capacity to Meet Meta's AI Demand
“Because it was just within the last month that Google had said, like, hey, we don't have capacity. We don't have enough capacity for all of Meadow's demand for our models.”
Coogan: Meta staff consumed 73.3T AI tokens monthly, costing $2.65B yearly
“Meta employees consumed 73.3 trillion AI tokens in a single month, which roughly costs two hundred and twenty one million a month or around 2.65 billion a year.”
Coogan: E-commerce will adopt agentic AI shopping
“It feels like e-commerce will see agentic shopping happening. We're getting closer. Computer use is getting better. APIs are there. MCP servers and Shopify has a bunch of tools for this stuff.”
Coogan: Meta is probably building a real-money prediction market product
“The fact that they didn't try and acquire Manifold, they tried to acquire Kalshi, sort of signals like, hey, they're probably going the financially incentivized route”
Hays: Meta explored vendor partnerships with prediction market providers
“The only reason, the reason I believe that is because I believe they had, Meta. Yeah. Like, was reaching out to the various prediction market providers to try to be potential, like, partners and or vendors.”
Hays: Kylie Jenner Meta glasses look indistinguishable from normal eyewear
“If I hadn't seen the launch, I wouldn't have noticed that they were metaglasses at all.”
Hays: Meta Will Likely Release Ad-Supported Smart Glasses
“I would expect to see, just like we saw the ad supported Kindle, I think we'll see the ad supported metaglasses.”
Baker: Meta Privately Tells Investors It Will Not Monetize GPUs Externally
“Right now Facebook is, you know, Meta is telling investors there's like no chance that we're gonna, you know, monetize GPUs externally.”
Hays: Apple will build proprietary smart glasses rather than partner for eyewear
“My expectation, my uninformed
expectation is that Apple will just make Apple glasses, right?
They will probably, I, it's hard to see them taking the route at least early on of partnering and allowing another company to influence the design language”
Meta should have used a talent licensing contract to acquire Manus
“It would have been, it probably would have been easier to do something like what grok and Nvidia did or like the windsurf Google thing where like, You're bringing people over with this contract, and then, like, yes, China blocks it, but it's, like, what are th…”
Generative UI is the ultimate bull case for Meta AR headsets
“Ben Thompson wrote a big bull case for the meta augmented reality headsets, not just Orion, but also the meta Ray-Ban displays today talking about as AI models get better on the fly UI generation with less Chrome, which is like the top bar and the bottom bar a…”
Google stock rallied after Meta's IPO disproved internet cannibalization fears
“As soon as the company went public, ironically, Google's stock started working. Because they didn't come out and tell you, we want to kill Google, or we're replicating the internet. We're doing kind of something different. Both stocks ended up working.”
Kim: Meta, Google, and Nvidia engineers report severe AI compute shortages
“I met with dozens of engineers at Meta, Google, NVIDIA. And all of them are seeing crazy inference demand and AI compute shortages.”
Meta Reels reached a $50 billion run rate in recent years.
“Reels went from zero to fifty billion of run rate in like a handful of years, right?”
Ma: Nebius and Meta Agree to $27B AI Infrastructure Deal
“Nebius and Meta have agreed to a twenty seven billion dollar AI infrastructure pact, a deal. The talks are advanced to packed stage. A five-year deal, twenty-seven billion to supply AI infrastructure capacity to Meta.”
Hays: Meta Stock Will Pop Higher When Layoffs Are Announced
“I would expect this to pop even harder once these layoffs are actually announced.”
Coogan: Meta signs multi-year AMD Instinct GPU deal for six gigawatts
“Meta has shaken hands with
AMD.
They're forming a pact today.
We're announcing a multi-year agreement with AMD advanced micro devices to integrate their latest instinct GPUs into our global infrastructure with a pot approximately six gigawatts.”
Meta outspends all competitors on virtual reality by an order of magnitude
“And they're still spending more on VR than anybody. By an order of magnitude.”
Coogan: Meta's transformer-based GEM model re-accelerates ad revenue growth
“Maybe but not before Meta's transformer-based gem model absolutely destroys ad targeting and just makes everything so much better and re-accelerates revenue.”
Coogan: Meta's upcoming Avocado model will reach the AI frontier
“And I think that, I do think that we are going to get something pretty powerful. Avocado is a good name. And based on the team and the compute and the money, like they're going to jump To the frontier. Like, there's just no question that they'll be really, rea…”
Patel: Meta poached Google search staff with massive compensation deals
“They actually poached Google search people with similar size deals as, like, these crazy...”
Patel: Meta's ad algorithm drove a 9% CPM increase in one quarter
“It's clear if you look at the most recent earnings, I think their CPM went up nine percent when the consumer's weak, which means, like, if you were to, like, try and strip out, like, what is consumer spending increasing for CPM of ads versus what is the effect…”
Coogan: Thinking Machines Retains Only Three of Six Original Founders
“The exits, coupled with fellow co-founder Andrew Tulloch's decampment to Meta last fall, leave Thinking Machines with just three of its original six founders.”
Meta hits $72B in capex and acquires AI startup Manus for $2B
“Meta's been ramping up AI spending on AI, pushing its capital expenditure to seventy-two billion last year with plans to accelerate that spending this year. It's also doled out offers worth tens of millions 1000 of millions of dollars to AI researchers and eng…”
Meta sold over two million pairs of AI Ray-Ban smart glasses
“The company's Ray-Ban smart glasses equipped with AI have also started to take off. The company sold more than two million pairs, And has delayed the rollout of its newest glasses in Europe as it struggled to keep up with demand in the U.S.”
Coogan: Apple's Privacy Focus Left It Ill-Equipped for AI vs. Google and Meta
“Apple has been building a brand around We don't access your data. We don't store your data. We would never train on your data. And that put them in an awkward position where they couldn't just snap their fingers and deliver a great AI experience. Whereas Googl…”
Gurman: Meta glasses are the most successful AI device in years
“The meta glasses are far and away the most successful AI device brought to market in this era over the last two or three years.”
Bosworth: Headsets reverse hardware norms because lightness is the premium feature
“A big part of what is premium in the headset space is lightness. Is weight, is comfort. Those are premium features, and that's kind of different from the previous generation. That's not how it was with phones or laptops, where you wanted it to feel solid and s…”
Coogan: Social platforms will automate video clipping, ending human arbitrage
“Like this eventually will get competed down. A lot of this will be taken by platforms, Opus Clip, or maybe even just YouTube will do it. Instagram will do it. You'll just stream to Instagram or Facebook and it will make the clips itself.”