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The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors.
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Though he has a Godfather-like status in China’s tech community, he rarely appears in public or gives interviews. Instead, he prefers to have “the product speak for itself.”
Patricia Mou • vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
Mark: I understand why people would be concerned about ads as a business model. But does getting people angry and serving them provocative content make them more likely to use Facebook services over the long term? I don't think so. We are not building this for the next quarter, we want to build this for the decades to come. It's too simplistic to s... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
Whereas in the recent past the internet was organized around data, it is now, as a result of Facebook, organized around people.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
I think the most important piece here is that the virtual goods and digital economy that’s going to get built out, that that can be interoperable. It’s not just about you build an app or an experience that can work across our headset or someone else’s, I think it’s really important that basically if you have your avatar and your digital clothes and... See more
stratechery.com • [FREE] An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
For all his reality-bending intensity, our CEO was accessible and approachable. He ate his lunch in the cafeteria with the rest of us, sitting with a different group every day. You could tell where he was without looking because Andrei’s table always laughed a little too loud.
Robin Sloan • Sourdough
Zuckerberg understands that in web3 fragmentation is inevitable, as users come to own and manage their data and metadata management—even if, in the world of Meta, they’re not quite able to monetize it. After all, people still need to manage their own data not only to cart it contiguously from one platform to another but in order to experience a met... See more