Evan Spiegel

“Snap | Social media/hardware company | CEO Evan Spiegel betting heavily on $2,195 smart glasses despite the fact that "Snap has never posted an annual profit, its shares are down more than 30% this year, and roughly 500 employees are working on Specs"”

“It really felt like Evan Spiegel and whoever was around him were doing things in a very principled, very intentional way where a product like the camera could be just as good for texting as it could be for broadcasting.”

“One thing he said is that our goal is to build FOMO for the next decade and he mentions that him taking some secondaries early on was really important for him saying no to Meta when they came to acquire.”

“The TVPN guys gave me the Mod Retro like video game, the Game Boy remake thing... Pokemon Yellow. It's awesome.”

“Computing needs to be in service of humanity, that ultimately humans are the ones that decide how technology is adopted. And I think too often in the technology industry, we're focused on technology first rather than people first. And I think that's a huge mistake.”

“We're about to reach a billion monthly active users... We're also on the verge of net income profitability... and specs are coming to consumers for the first time later this year.”

“I think you already knew we found is after they added a certain number of friends, they got to a place where they actually didn't know who they were friends with on Facebook... people felt really uncomfortable posting.”

“The problem with camera glasses, if you're really successful... you're going to get undercut on price very, very quickly.”

“specs are coming to consumers for the first time later this year.”

“The team was using, like, a, you know, an enterprise service for bug reports... cost, like, $100,000 a year. Or today, you know, they built a replacement for it in a day, saved $100,000. But more importantly, they were like, this is a way better tool for us.”