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Videos Mentioning Facebook

E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
All-In Podcast
Mentioned as a company with enough time and money to compete in AI with Google.

World Leading Psychologist: How To Succeed In Life & World: Jamil Qureshi
The Diary Of A CEO
Mentioned as a platform where the speaker kept a diary of his early struggles and aspirations, which a TV company asked him to maintain.

E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
All-In Podcast
A major social media platform, mentioned in the context of Chinese government's concerns about algorithms causing chaos, contrasting with China's move to control algorithms.

Ep. 187: Quitting Social Media, Scaling Deep Work, and Discussing Privilege | Deep Questions Podcast
Cal Newport
Social media platform whose business model and perceived political leanings led to widespread criticism.

Female Founders Conference - Mountain View
Y Combinator
A social media platform that released a developer platform, which Kabam leveraged to build fan communities and games. Later, Facebook's 30% tax on app purchases led Kabam to pivot to mobile.

How to Design Hardware Products with Hosain Rahman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 17)
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a source of information about the world, contrasting with the lack of self-knowledge provided by current technology.

Reduce Your Screentime (5 Simple Steps) | Cal Newport
Cal Newport
Mentioned as a social media site that can be modified by apps like Social Focus.

Andrew Chen — Growth Secrets from Uber, Exploring the Metaverse, Startup Investing, and More
Tim Ferriss
A social media platform, mentioned in the context of the PayPal Mafia's involvement and later its rebranding to Meta and Google's attempt to compete with Google Plus.

How to Be a Great Founder with Reid Hoffman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 13)
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a giant competitor that LinkedIn was compared against during its early years.

Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2)
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a company that effectively balances speed with quality, hires strategically, and uses growth groups to maintain momentum.

Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Y Combinator
An example of a company that succeeded by starting in a small market (Harvard students) and expanding, with potential to be the last social networking site.

Dr. Paul Conti: Tools and Protocols for Mental Health | Huberman Lab Guest Series
Andrew Huberman
Social media platform where Andrew Huberman discusses science and related tools.

Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince at Startup School SV 2014
Y Combinator
Mentioned as the previous employer of Gish Patay and in the context of Mark Zuckerberg's approach to company titles suggesting a step-down in roles.

Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250
Lex Fridman
A social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. Peter Wang mentions people 'noping out' of Facebook due to its addictive nature and its role in exploiting human inclinations.

Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
The social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg, which received early investment from Peter Thiel and Ken Howery due to their recognition of Friendster's 'false fail'.

Patrick Collison — CEO of Stripe | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A social media technology company. Patrick Collison observed that Facebook was created with conventional organizational charts.

Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243
Lex Fridman
Social networking service that acquired Instagram. Kevin Systrom initially turned down an offer to work at Facebook before Instagram's success.

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
Lex Fridman
Developed PyTorch, was more open to community input on its structure compared to Google's TensorFlow, and collaborates with Quansight on PyTorch development.

Tim Urban | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A social media platform that was instrumental in the early virality of 'Wait But Why' due to its algorithm in 2013.

Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166
Lex Fridman
A social network that pivoted to a news feed model, which Cal Newport argues eroded its network effect advantage, leading to its cultural fragility.

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
A social network whose friend relations and posts Eich believes users should own and be able to composite across networks.

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124
Lex Fridman
A social media platform, humorously compared to the underlying nature of reality in Wolfram's hypergraph model, as a 'friend network' without inherent spatial coordinates.

Jamie Foxx Returns (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
One of the startups Tim Ferriss invested in early on.

Dr. Dominic D'Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and The End of Cancer
Tim Ferriss
Social media platform where Dr. D'Agostino is active and can be found by his handle.