Instagram’s Founder On Why All Social Media Looks The Same — With Kevin Systrom

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Systrom is the co-founder of Instagram and co-founder of Artifact, a news app that uses AI to determine your preferences and show stories you might be interested in. Systrom joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the implications of all social media — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter — starting to look like each other. We speak about how the rise of AI recommendation feeds impacts the future of competition among these apps, creativity upon them, and distribution for people looking to get a message across. Tune in for a fun, in-depth discussion about social media's future in a new era. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	LinkedIn Presents.
0:14.6	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:20.5	Kevin Sistram is our guest today.
0:22.5	He's the founder of Instagram, and he's currently building a news app called Artifact,
0:26.8	which uses AI to determine your preferences, and then it shows you stories it thinks you might
0:31.3	be interested in.
0:32.6	Sistram and I spoke while we were both in town and Austin when we were speaking at South by Southwest,
0:37.8	and I was super eager to hear his perspective on the implications of the fact that all social
0:42.4	media, Facebook and Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube and even Twitter are starting to look like
0:47.3	each other. Cisterom should know better than anyone else, what this means for the future of
0:51.8	competition among these apps, what it means for creativity upon them, and of course for the future of competition among these apps, what it means for
0:54.8	creativity upon them, and of course for the future of everyone's ability to find distribution
0:59.6	online. I think you're really going to enjoy hearing from Sistram. I know that I walked away from
1:05.4	our conversation with a much deeper understanding of the state of play and social media today,
1:09.9	and I hope you will too.
1:12.2	My conversation with Kevin Sistram coming up right after this.
1:16.7	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species? What would it take to abolish poverty?
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1:28.7	recently on the next big idea. I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the
1:34.5	world's leading thinkers for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play
1:39.4	smarter. Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
1:48.4	Hey, I'm Gianna Predente.
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