YouTube of the future

The CEO of Patreon @jackconte recently pointed out that we're seeing the death of the follower. I took note of this because I remember @nateliason saying the same exact thing at a dinner months ago. The algorithmic ranking concept that Facebook started in the early 2010s has recently been perfected by TikTok (and now all other platforms mimicking ... See more

I want to still not only support photos, but continue to do great work in the photo space. But we've done great work for photos historically. We haven't done great work for video. So we need to catch up there. Swimming against that trend, I think, is going to be really bad for Instagram long term. We could just not enable videos. We could not try t... See more

But as we move towards a world that is more creator direct, subscribers should have the opportunity to literally invest in their favorite creators and share upside in their success.