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

I'm Brian McCullough.

So as I said yesterday, this is a special one.

I've been searching around for a while for a great explainer about

Tiktok's secret sauce. You know, that vaunted algorithm that either is or is not the crown jewel of Tic-Toc as an asset.

It turns out Eugene Wei wrote a great essay explaining what the secret sauce actually is.

And our friends at Andries and Horwitz had him on their podcast this week to discuss it.

I listened to the A16Z podcast, 16 minutes, all the time, every week, and so when I heard this earlier this week I was like damn

They got it they did an episode that fully explains what makes Tik-Tok different

I mean in a really fundamental way like how Tic-Toc is an evolution

beyond the social graph that we all understand. So again I listen and I was like

shit this has already been done and been done perfectly I don't think I

would have interviewed Eugene any better than the host of the show my friend

Sonal did so if I reached out to you gene to do a weekend bonus episode because you know I have interviewed

him before on the internet history podcast, I'd just be replicating what was already done.

I'd be asking him to do it a second time it would be very annoying I could

have just recommended this episode to you on the long reads but again I thought no

you all need to hear this done perfectly explained perfectly so I reached out to Sonel and Eugene and A16Z and

I was like, look, just let me throw the entire episode into my feed unedited.

Sometimes when I do feed drops, get paid for it but I'm not

getting paid for this. They said yes they said just put it up and so I'm doing

that. I just want you to hear the best explanation for how and why Tik-Tok is different and how it just works and

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