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social media's transformation and where the technology world is heading next. All that coming up

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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for Cool HeadHeaded, he wants conversation, of the tech world

and beyond. Eugene Way is our guest today. He's a tech product expert formerly the head of video at

Oculus and SVP of product and marketing at Hulu, who's also made a lengthy stop at Amazon.

Eugene's loosely examined and explained the dynamics of tech

consumer products in a way that fully reveals how they work. I've been reading his work for so long,

and I'm so thrilled to speak with him today. Eugene, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me,

Alex. It's a pleasure. Thanks for being here. Let's just start off with the social media landscape right now.

First question on my mind, why would any platform have anything other than a TikTok style

algorithm? And if there's no argument against, don't we just have everything merge into each other

and just kind of look exactly the same?

I think there's some nuance to it.

Certainly, I think one of the big realizations for Western social media when TikTok came on the scene was that if you could dial in an algorithm to kind of manage the signal to noise

in a feed, you could really scale that.

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