Shashir Mehrotra

I think our main goal is to build a platform a lot like YouTube.

You should choose to be on our platform.

You should be able to choose and build an experience you trust, and you should choose your business model.

And when you choose your business model, you should get paid for your contributions to it.

That's the model we're working on.

That's where I want to be.

We heard the first complaints from a handful of experts.

They said, I'd like to be, I'd like to opt out of the feature.

And we addressed what they asked for.

We then sat down and looked hard at the feature.

And to be honest, I hadn't spent any time on it.

I came and looked at it and I said, this is all strategy for us.

And we announced we're taking it down well before there was a lawsuit.

The reason we took it down is it's off strategy.

It's not what we want to do.

That's not how we want to work with creators.

We think we're building a platform you should want to be on.

We think we're hopefully part of the solution for how you can take your work and make sure it's present for people everywhere.

It wasn't our goal to be anywhere close to that line, but the future wasn't good.

We took it down.