Casey and Mark

Eric Newcomer49min

Casey

00:00

living out their dreams. And together we're building what we hope will be a more sustainable model for some kinds of journalism and during a really hard time, that is such a cool thing. And I hope you feel good about supporting us, we feel great that you were here. So let's talk about the main event today. One of the ideas we have for side channel is doing journalism with the community already, just over the last day in the chat, you've been sharing links and ideas, those good tweets and other stuff that makes us smarter. And that

Casey

00:34

is really guests and have live conversations with them together. And so last week, as we were getting everything set up for today, I got word from Facebook, that CEO Mark Zuckerberg might be available to stop by and see what we were up to here. And I thought, well, here I am using software that is basically brand new to me in front of hundreds of people who I will be making a first impression on. And that seemed like the exact right note of chaos to start a side channel with. But you're all here. My microphone is on the discord engineering team is standing by Thank you, Discord. And I believe we have mark mark, are you here?

Mark Zuckerberg

01:10

Yeah, I am. Thanks for having me. Casey, I guess Welcome to Discord. I'm glad that this can be your first time using the product. I have to say I'm I am fans of both the work that you're doing at platformer and what the discord folks are doing. I think it's a great product. Yeah, well, I was just about to ask because discord is pretty new to me. And I know that you check out all of the big social products. Well, what are your impressions of discord?

Mark Zuckerberg

01:34

Well, I think the team has done a very good job with it. I mean, I think it's, you know, I think it's impressive, technically, I think the product is well implemented. And I think it kind of plays into this broader theme of different kinds of community products that are getting built. And increasingly, you know, a lot of the the new social experiences are getting built off of messaging rather than on a broadcast channels. And I think that this kind of

Mark Zuckerberg

02:01

community product does a good job of blending a lot of those things together. And, you know, where we build a bunch of things like this at Facebook, obviously, between WhatsApp and messenger, and all the groups work that we do that a lot of people use, but there's just so much awesome stuff happening around the internet. And it's and and I do think that the discord folks have done a great job. Yeah, I mean, there's no way it sells for 10 billion, right? It's got to be closer to 20.

Unknown Speaker

02:27

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