Steven

You must be thinking about, you know, we talked about earlier, the kind of jobs that are going to exist in the future. There's a big narrative saying that knowledge jobs like lawyer and accountant aren't going to be the same. In fact, even when you think about how your kids are going to be educated, your youngest child is one years old.

Are they going to go to a school or are they going to go to a large language model? How are you thinking about that future? Are you scared?

Are they going to go to a school or are they going to go to a large language model? How are you thinking about that future? Are you scared?

I was wondering the other day when I was using ChatGPT or one of the programs a couple of days ago, I was wondering if I'm going to get worse at writing because this thing's now doing it for me. And writing is such a wonderful way to think and understand. So therefore, am I going to get worse at like understanding things?

I was wondering the other day when I was using ChatGPT or one of the programs a couple of days ago, I was wondering if I'm going to get worse at writing because this thing's now doing it for me. And writing is such a wonderful way to think and understand. So therefore, am I going to get worse at like understanding things?

Because I'm now deferring the process of thinking through something logically to this computer. Whereas back in the day, I would have to like really think deeply about what I was trying to say myself.

Because I'm now deferring the process of thinking through something logically to this computer. Whereas back in the day, I would have to like really think deeply about what I was trying to say myself.

Interesting. I've not thought about that. I don't know if I'm getting better. I don't really know. Because there's always a trade-off with new technology. And the problem, as we saw with social media, is we often don't discover the trade-off.

Interesting. I've not thought about that. I don't know if I'm getting better. I don't really know. Because there's always a trade-off with new technology. And the problem, as we saw with social media, is we often don't discover the trade-off.

until 15 years 20 years time when it's really weird it's ugly head because it's slow then it's fast so i'm trying to understand if you're looking around the corner or looking over the horizon now to think through the trade-off of us hurtling into something which just like social media made something better faster cheaper easier but came with a unintended consequence

until 15 years 20 years time when it's really weird it's ugly head because it's slow then it's fast so i'm trying to understand if you're looking around the corner or looking over the horizon now to think through the trade-off of us hurtling into something which just like social media made something better faster cheaper easier but came with a unintended consequence

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You know, like you're in that startup phase, you're in your dad's bedroom phase, where you're scrappy and you're growing quickly, then you went to the blue office. you had meteoric growth, you had the IPO. What season is Snapchat in as we sit here today in 2025? How would you summarize it if you had to poetically describe the psychology of the business now?

You know, like you're in that startup phase, you're in your dad's bedroom phase, where you're scrappy and you're growing quickly, then you went to the blue office. you had meteoric growth, you had the IPO. What season is Snapchat in as we sit here today in 2025? How would you summarize it if you had to poetically describe the psychology of the business now?

Have you had any acquisition offers since that conversation with Mark Zuckerberg once upon a time. Do people still try and buy the company like these days?