Ryan Mac
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469 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Ryan Mac’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And anyone who's spent any time working or reporting on social media knows that if you're just maximizing for engagement, you're gonna get some pretty terrible stuff that pops up in that feed.
And that's what it seems like they're maximizing for, and that's the kind of result that we're getting now.
It's no longer public, so it doesn't have to reveal its numbers anymore.
But the kind of breadcrumbs that we do get from reporting inside the company show that advertising is cratered.
This acquisition, as disastrous as it was for him, doesn't hurt him at all.
In fact, it made him stronger.
And you think about where he was when he bought the company.
He was worth, let's call it $300 billion, $400 billion.
His net worth now is approaching $800 billion.
He's probably going to become the first trillionaire.
It's this kind of realization of surprise for me that once you're that rich, once you have that much power and wealth, you can have this enormous screw up and come off for the better.
He spun out XAI from it.
He's used it to influence an election and put someone in the White House.
Not saying that that was the original goal, but that's certainly what happened.
And he has come off way more wealthy and way more powerful than I could have imagined when we started writing this book.
Yeah.
I think that just proves the idea is a myth.
Mm-hmm.
So the way he's acted has not, by any means, comported with this idea of free speech.
You know, we've had this kind of ideal for a long time.
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