Jean Luo

Nobody thought Snapchat could work.

I mean, our early investors we went to talk to were like, yeah, good luck.

You know, try competing with Facebook.

They've got it locked down.

Right.

And so I think, you know, that's been one of just the themes of building our business, that there is, of course, constant doubt, especially when you're innovating, because in order to innovate, you have to do something that's not obvious.

right?

That cuts against the grain.

That's different from the way that people see the world today.

And so that's why this combination of innovating over the long term is so difficult, because you're working on something that's fundamentally misunderstood.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be innovation.

I don't think that's unique to me.

I think that is in every single entrepreneur.

To be able to endure the challenges of building a business, to be able to invent something takes incredible resilience.

And I think actually what you just described is the common thread through almost any meaningful success story I can think of.

But even harder because it involves making content.

Snap will be making computing more human.

EQ for sure.

Well, I think one of the biggest shifts in the world today is with AI.

Intelligence is being democratized in a pretty radical way.