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Channels with Peter Kafka

Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Amazon and Hulu veteran Eugene Wei has a really smart take on how status determines our use - and the success - of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. He talks to Peter Kafka about why we’re all status monkeys on social media, how young influencers use it differently than the rest of us, and how our mental models of these networks are changing. Also: his thoughts on working in the Amazon bubble, and the failed HQ2 in New York.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

1:13.6

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

1:18.6

This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might

1:28.0

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1:33.4

get podcasts.

1:36.7

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I'm part of the Vox Media Podcast Network

1:42.0

here at Vox Media headquarters in New York City. It's a gray,

1:45.2

gloomy, a cold day. But I'm warm on the inside because Eugene Way is here. A Recode Media,

1:52.3

all-time favorite guest. Welcome back, Eugene. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm loading you up

1:56.5

with pressure here because you were great last year. I appreciate it.

2:02.6

I called you a think fluencer and I think you said you'd not heard of that term.

2:05.6

I hope that's now on your LinkedIn.

2:07.6

I should add that.

2:09.6

We had you on and you talked about everything under the sun,

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