The Declining Half-Life Of Social Media — With Eugene Wei
July 19, 2023
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Episode 199 · July 19, 2023
The Declining Half-Life Of Social Media — With Eugene Wei
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The Declining Half-Life Of Social Media — With Eugene Wei
Summary
Eugene Wei is a tech analyst and product veteran, with time spent inside Meta, Amazon, and Hulu. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of social media's longevity, considering how the decay of mainstay platforms changes the incentives to participate. Tune in for a in-depth discussion of social media's longterm trajectory, examining the TikTok algorithm, Threads, Twitter under Musk, and the puzzling persistence of Facebook. In the second half, listen to an engaging lightening round, where Wei comments on the state of his former employers and his longtime friendship with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
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