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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Adam Mosseri

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6908 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Adam Mosseri is the head of Instagram, where he oversees all functions of the app including engineering, product, and operations. Adam has been at Meta (formerly Facebook) for more than 11 years. He was the company’s design director for mobile apps and then moved into product management, where he led the News Feed product and engineering teams for many years. Prior to Meta, began his career founding a design consultancy in 2003 with offices in New York and San Francisco that focused on graphic, interaction, and exhibition design.  ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0

Tetrogrammaton.

0:03.0

Tetragrammaton.

0:06.0

If I'm completely honest, I've never really liked the term of social media.

0:26.6

I'm not sure if I can really articulate why.

0:29.6

Social media, I think, is essentially platforms like Instagram,

0:36.6

where what you consume is primarily produced by other people

0:42.5

like you as opposed to something that's more professionally produced.

0:49.0

That said, that line is blurring over time, right?

0:51.2

There's a lot of professionally produced content not only on Instagram but on all social media. But the basic idea is that it's what we would call user-generated content.

0:59.0

So we're not going out and making content ourselves, we're not buying content for the most part,

1:04.0

but we're providing a platform that allows people to share and find an audience,

1:10.0

which is an interesting role because you're a connector and you understand to a certain degree what people are saying on the platform, but you don't have a point of view in the same way about content the way you would if you were just producing content directly.

1:27.1

Makes perfect sense.

1:28.3

It's more of a distribution network.

1:30.3

Yeah.

1:31.3

But it's not as neutral as like a telephone network, right?

1:36.3

You pick up the phone and I might call you.

1:39.3

But we're not waking up in the morning and trying to decide what we think is important, what everyone should

1:44.9

consume and what everyone shouldn't consume. So one of the more difficult questions we're always

1:50.8

wrestling with, which is where to be on that spectrum, how much to have an opinion and how to do

1:57.8

that responsibly and transparently, which is a sticky, tricky problem.

2:03.6

Yeah, why would the phone comparison not be the best version?

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