A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
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A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
anyone who makes stuff on the Internet knows that Web2.0 is over. The Discord’s general consensus is that for many, growth is flat. Reach on social platforms is harder than ever to achieve. And it’s pretty much pointless to promote work from one platform to another. Either because nobody clicks on links anymore, or links out to other destinations a... See more
Facebook is context collapse - the social graph includes so many people. TikTok's social graph isn't built on a graph of people you know which avoids the context collapse.
Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
Ezra Klein asks: what comes first? the design of the internet, or what advertising needs on the internet? Tim Hwang think there is a deep path dependence in funding of platform companies. We have religious faith that if you aggregate a lot of attention online you will become the next Google/Facebook. We don't have a lot of examples of subscription
... See moreTim Hwang • Opinion | How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works
Today, it’s not as easy to build the “tool” part when so much of that landscape has already been mined and when scaled networks have learned to copy any tool achieving any level of traction.