David Rosenthal: belief

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…They are all about this platform future. Here we are trying to make the case of, they did it. They decided they were an ads business. They built one of the two greatest advertising systems ever known to man, and one of the most amazing business models ever. At their annual developer keynote, they’re talking about how they’re going to one day become a platform company. There we have it. That is the story of Meta. I should probably say for a minute here, too. My experience using Orion—you were talking about yours a minute ago—I thought it was unbelievably compelling. Before trying it, I never would’ve believed that any type of AR or VR would really have been the platform of the future. Then after trying Orion I was like, oh yeah, I could wear these on my face all day and I could replace a lot of what I do on the phone with just these lenses being in front of me all the time. It would be way more efficient and way more enjoyable. I would never have guessed that in this year you could fit that into glasses. Glasses and a wireless puck.…

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