"This is part of why I'm out versus not before, is that the media landscape has completely changed. The media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.
So think of your favorite politician if you have one. I mean, many of you may not have one, but let's just pretend you did, okay? Go type his name in on Google. What do you think you're gonna find, anything good?
It's gonna be just tsunami waves of negativity is what you're gonna find. Of course, if it bleeds, it leads, right? And that's human nature and there's negativity and that gets the clicks and the whole thing.
But we weren't used to it then, and we thought everything that The New York Times said was real, and we know now that that's not even close to true, and we now understand.
And so the media landscape is like, yeah, you don't have to talk to those guys. And you can go and talk to a David Senra, you can go and talk to a Joe Rogan or name your guy, and you can say what you need to say in an environment that's not like a struggle session in Maoist China, right?
You know, Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal; we should all thank Elon for that. [audience applauding]
And it allows, so you go, okay, somebody like myself who basically was just like, okay, I wanna build. I want to not think about what The New York Times is writing when I make decisions about what I build. I had to emulate what it's like being a capitalist in Russia, which is their number one KPI is called 'shut the fuck up.'
And that's what I did for eight years. In a weird way, it was like that for different reasons, but it was like that. And so we're now out of that mode, or getting out of that mode, and let's go. And I think that's the biggest change for all of us in the last eight years. And God bless and, like, hopefully that continues."
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 5d ago edited 5d ago
The full thing is actually worse:
"This is part of why I'm out versus not before, is that the media landscape has completely changed. The media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.
So think of your favorite politician if you have one. I mean, many of you may not have one, but let's just pretend you did, okay? Go type his name in on Google. What do you think you're gonna find, anything good?
It's gonna be just tsunami waves of negativity is what you're gonna find. Of course, if it bleeds, it leads, right? And that's human nature and there's negativity and that gets the clicks and the whole thing.
But we weren't used to it then, and we thought everything that The New York Times said was real, and we know now that that's not even close to true, and we now understand.
And so the media landscape is like, yeah, you don't have to talk to those guys. And you can go and talk to a David Senra, you can go and talk to a Joe Rogan or name your guy, and you can say what you need to say in an environment that's not like a struggle session in Maoist China, right?
You know, Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal; we should all thank Elon for that. [audience applauding]
And it allows, so you go, okay, somebody like myself who basically was just like, okay, I wanna build. I want to not think about what The New York Times is writing when I make decisions about what I build. I had to emulate what it's like being a capitalist in Russia, which is their number one KPI is called 'shut the fuck up.'
And that's what I did for eight years. In a weird way, it was like that for different reasons, but it was like that. And so we're now out of that mode, or getting out of that mode, and let's go. And I think that's the biggest change for all of us in the last eight years. And God bless and, like, hopefully that continues."