Torsten Reil
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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But if it is very compelling, which yours is, it becomes something that people will consume too much. Same with food. Same with food. I think food can be dangerous too, but I think TikTok is a lot more dangerous than hamburgers. Large parts of society are wasting so much of their time on something that has been highly tuned.
I'm saying this as someone who used to make games, and we know what dopamine loops look like. TikTok loop is the best, and you cannot get out of it. Why is it the best? Because it has just the right combination of timing, the flick, the content that immediately comes up. It's perfectly tuned. And obviously they have all the metrics to know what content to show you. It is super addictive.
It's incredibly dangerous. It also obviously becomes a potential tool for manipulation, political manipulation, whether that's happening or not. But it is extremely powerful if you wanted to use it. And then thirdly, it has the same problem as all social media. The content that works the best is the content that's the most extreme.
And so we have a problem of basically radicalizing political views where just almost by definition, radical content will just work better. Do you believe Twitter is better under Elon Musk? It's very different. How would you say it's different? There are different people on there now. I think other people have left. Maybe you get a broader spectrum of views. It's hard to tell.
I think the jury is out on that. But it does feel different.
If you care about the platform that much, then maybe it's the right thing to do if you have the cash available.
I think we wish we had known that the Ukraine war was going to happen that quickly.
We would have focused all of our efforts on specific systems to deal with the problems in hand, which are now the ones that I talked about earlier. It's electronic warfare resistance, GPS independence, being resilient to comms jamming. And we were working on those systems, but not just. We were working on other systems, too.
And we were building a technology foundation that we're now using, obviously, in the company. And it's good that we have it. But had we known that this conflict was imminent, I think we would have shifted priorities. And I think we could have done more right at the beginning. In the end, I think we were able to contribute, but we needed to spool up all of these systems and a lot of knowledge.
Well, one question I've asked myself the other day, which I don't get asked that often, is how does a founder group work together that's equal? How do you make it work? Because as a founder, almost By definition, you all have to be ambitious. Everyone is different. Everyone will always have a bit of an ego as well. How do you make it work that actually it works together?
And it worked well for us naturally, but it's quite interesting to think about what are the reasons that it works. What are they? The way I boil it down is respect. It's mutual respect. You know, chemistry and everything else is important as well.
But if you truly respect the quality of your co-founders and what they contribute and the job that they do and that they're, you know, 10 out of 10 people, then everyone finds their role. And the roles are shifting sometimes too, right? Like, it's not like, you know, to your point of specialization earlier, it's not like, you know, one person has this role, the other one person has that role.
We have our different emphases, but we tend to chip in and be involved in all kinds of things, including obviously in the management of the company and the scaling. We all do that together.
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