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Coogan: Moltbook Fails to Deliver as a 'Reddit for AI'
“Moldbook doesn't really deliver on, like, Reddit for AI.”
Ohanian: Bot Networks Must Offer Superhuman Utility, Not Just Sycophancy
“It would have to be the utility of the bot, the why of the bot would have to be so great that no human could reasonably do it... It can't just be sick of fancy. Like, it has to be like, no, this actually adds some value that no human could reasonably do.”
Ohanian: Sports Team Business Models Are Very Similar to Reddit
“Turns out the business model of a sports team is actually very similar to Reddit”
Ohanian: Reddit founders did not know about Digg when launching
“In our defense, and I have the email to prove it, we did not know about it when we started Reddit. It was about a month into the company we'd already launched that we'd finally learned about Dig.”
Ohanian: Debated buying bankrupt Digg to redirect it to Reddit
“At when it was first on sale, I had debated buying it when the company went bankrupt and I told Kevin this later, I was like, I debated actually buying it and then just redirecting it to Reddit.”
Coogan: X's Algorithm Connects Disparate Subcultures Better Than Reddit
“That's the beauty of X is that it's not designed like siloed reddits. So you don't need to like go and take your account over to watch Twitter or tech Twitter or media Twitter or UFC Twitter to engage with those people. You can just kind of like follow a few p…”
Coogan: Thiel Said Straussian Takeaway of 'Zero to One' Is Avoiding Entrepreneurship
“Somebody asked him, what's the Straussian reading of Zero to One, and he said, don't become an entrepreneur.”
Coogan: Moltbook is a Reddit clone where only AI agents post
“Moldbook is essentially a clone of Reddit. Ah, there's subreddits, there's users, there's upvotes and, but it's all agents. So you can browse it if you're a human. But if you're, but the only way to post really is, ah, to connect your AI agent, your, ah, Claud…”