Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Did you all do your homework?

I'm just kidding, of course.

But we are going to talk to the great Connie Chan once again about that package of essays from Andresen Horowitz that I mentioned on the weekend long reads yesterday, and we're going to talk about the future of video.

Connie says it's going to be live, social, and shoppable.

Oh, and a reminder to maybe watch this on our YouTube channel to up our numbers a bit.

Please enjoy.

Connie, I was just saying you basically seated my weekend long read segment for this week.

The whole run a whole I guess the package that y' all put out is about social not being dead or at least

not being you know completely you know claimed at this point can we just start with

with the premise of these essays

that while people think social was basically done

that big platforms had locked it all up,

you guys are positing the exact opposite almost.

Yes, yes.

I think there was a phase in a time when a lot of investors felt we already have

Instagram, we already have Snap, there isn't going to be a new social player,

and we are exactly like you're saying Brian

arguing the opposite because we actually still think there's a lot of problems and jobs to be done in

social that are not addressed today there There are also new formats around video, around

audio where we think there's still a lot more experimentation to be done. And if you think about

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