internet

“My claim is you couldn't build something as free and open, and that works as well as the internet today because no group would fund it. and what you would end up with is a massively stunted version of something that is highly centralized and controlled by a c…”

“Everyone thought the internet was going to be that, you know, democratizing final utopia, and instead we've seen the flip side of that, which is the development of ever specialized, ever atomized, ever more esoteric and inward looking conversations, or even I …”

“If you're designing a social product, and you kind of just throw your hands up and go, it's the internet, you're wrong. Like, that is not the era we live in, and we need to take on that responsibility as people who make these things.”

“Most people think that they're competing with people that make the same stuff that they make. That is a hundred percent not true. You are competing with this. Elon Musk smoking weed on Joe Rogan's podcast. I haven't checked the views, but I think it's probably…”

“And, you know, it held back modems. It held back the internet. It held back you know, early Usenet. It was only the dismantling of the Bell system that enabled the next generation to emerge.”

“The way I kind of like simply think about it is, is that for the last two cycles, let's call it the internet and mobile, we've moved from outcomes and attention into an area of relationships and affection. And I think that's much more dynamic and it's much mor…”

“And we think about this as the broadband moment for crypto, where when we were in dial up of the internet, you couldn't have the applications that exist today. And then gradually we scaled the throughput, scaled the bandwidth, and that led to these new breakou…”