Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
9 Dec 2019 Acquired TikTok
“I would dive into that, but I want to take one step back first and say the way to emerge as a new social network, there's a narrative violation here, whether or not you like the term narrative violation.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 9 Dec 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- TikTok
Transcript context
…Yeah. The biggest thing for me is that I had no idea about all of these dynamics underlying how Musical.ly, TikTok, and Bytedance work, and this really orthogonal view to how all other western social networks operate in having content, being driven by the actual content, and algorithms recommending it as opposed to the people making it. I think this is a huge trend that is super important for entrepreneurs to be thinking about across all types of content companies. Absolutely. I would dive into that, but I want to take one step back first and say the way to emerge as a new social network, there's a narrative violation here, whether or not you like the term narrative violation. Yes, I love how Acquired finally made the New York Times for narrative violations. Amazing. Thanks, Erin.…
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