Jean Luo

We all were using it to communicate with one another.

And then over time, obviously, it grew across the world, across the nation, as now reaches nearly a billion monthly active users, as you mentioned.

I think for us, so much of what we do here at Snap is actually not oriented around a specific generation or a demographic.

It's more about inventing fundamentally new technology that empowers people to express themselves or live in the moment or use a new augmented reality tool or lens.

But we find that new technology is just most readily adopted by young people in general.

I think as I look at Gen Z specifically, and we've got a Gen Zer at home, Flynn is 15.

I think it's a generation of realists.

I think they've grown up in a really challenging environment.

And you contrast that with millennials or my generation, where growing up in the 90s, I think it was a very optimistic, peaceful period of time.

There was a huge amount of economic growth and opportunity.

And then obviously, millennials hit a bunch of speed bumps along the way with 9-11 or the financial crisis, the pandemic.

that means that millennials went from sort of this optimistic and peaceful frame to hitting these speed bumps, right?

And I think millennials still retain that optimism, but it's been shaped by reality.

I think Gen Z grew up in that reality.

And that's a very different, uh,

especially when you look at how Gen Z is positioned relative to boomers and the environment that they grew up in, where education was actually affordable, where you could afford to buy a home, where job prospects weren't necessarily shaped by AI as they are today.

And so what I see when I talk to Gen Z or Flynn's friends, for example, is just a realistic perspective that they've got to do the best they can with a really complicated

world today.

I'm not sure there are major generational differences.

I think at the end, a lot of this stuff comes down to what we really want as humans, right?