nicole

When you describe the culture and values and character of a company, not even through like the internal workings but in the way that the product experience feels when you use it, it’s almost indistinguishable from the founder’s personality. And very rarely does a company, even when it goes through multiple CEOs significantly deviate from that that ... See more

No. But somebody raised a great point to me that the world’s sort of shifted and now Instagram is a museum. Instagram inherently, I put less content on it because it’s like a showcase and it reflects on me forever. And when you go to Snapchat, my response to Snapchat, it’s like a crowded bar. There is content flying everywhere; it’s lose, it’s fun.... See more

[2:11] I keep in mind that I'm going to have less energy throughout the day and things are going to get more and more tempting throughout the day, so it's going to be much harder for me to resist things as the day progresses. Keeping these two things in mind, every single day of my week from a macro standpoint gets divided into three main parts.

They’re global companies in a market where it’s really not clear that being global gives you that much of an advantage.

With the rise of these services, it’s becoming increasingly more important to own the default channel that the users go to for leisure, for distraction, for whatever it is, because in the, you know, near-infinite nature of the internet, you can push whatever you want through that channel to reach that audience.

…this is one of the most classic examples ever of low-end disruption. You have the big thing that the enterprise people are buying with these companies that need every single last feature of Office, even though any given person only uses 5% of it. Most of them use the same 5%, but you need all those features because that's how you get the big enter... See more