Stephen Levy: "Peak Facebook"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Technology, Interviews, News, Silicon Valley, Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Tech, Business News, Business Analysis

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amid Facebook's record-setting financial performance and its pivot toward become a "metaverse" company, we air a revealing interview from last year (March 2020) with Stephen Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story, Levy talks about the moment he decided to write the book (4:15), the first time he met Zuck (8:55), the “book of change” (10:30), why Zuckerberg didn’t need an “adult in the room” (14:00), his deification in Silicon Valley (17:15), how Trump used Facebook (19:15), dark profiles (22:00), why Facebook is still moving fast (25:15), Facebook’s antitrust fight (28:45), on whether encryption changes things (31:15), Facebook as a utility (34:15), Zuckerberg’s shrinking inner circle (36:00), the hardest thing about writing the book (39:45), how Zuckerberg has changed (44:15), the Facebook phone (48:30), Cambridge Analytica (49:30), and whether Facebook is too big to control (53:45).

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1:27.0	So, as you are no doubt well aware, this has been an
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