Anish Acharya

But it wasn't obvious at the time when you guys started tinkering that it was going to be like a global social media, like, you know, I mean, it would be regulated.

It would like potentially influence elections.

Did you have any sense of how important it would be?

No, there was none of that.

And I don't think...

Maybe.

I mean, I don't know about venture economics, but I feel like if there's a big new set of consumer categories, venture will be fine and consumers will benefit.

And I love that you talk about the photo sharing thing because I feel like anytime you have new culture and new technology and they both happen at the same time, it's amazing.

Like think of the photos thing.

Photos went from hyper-private

to being public, to being public and seeming so important that you'd never want to delete them, to Snap coming around and being like, no, now they're disappearing.

Right.

Which felt like, whoa, why would I want it to disappear?

Right.

10 years after, you're like, whoa, why would I want to share it?

Yes, yes.

And so it was kind of all... And now if you actually, if I shared an AI generated photo of myself with you, you'd be like, this is slop, right?

So it's just, there's so, these cycles, there's locations, another fascinating one.

There's this whole moral panic around privacy and security and will people share location and location-based ads, like this whole topic.

Now, if you look at it, Gen Zs, they share their location with friends, family, exes, like everyone, right?