Gurley is skeptical of avatar-based work meetings, having done eight such board meetings pre-Zoom.
“And we've done them. Philip and I have done eight of those board meetings with avatars, and that was pre Zoom.”
Gurley argues simpler heuristics go viral faster than complex ones, favoring Discord over Meta's approach.
“Personally, I've always found that simpler heuristics go viral faster than complex ones. And so when I equate what's happening in a Discord or a Twitter space with what's trying to be achieved by Meta.”
Gurley would bet on a 500 million user communication platform adding avatars over a perfect avatar system without users.
“if I had to place a bet on whether someone that had 500,000,000 users on a digital place platform where people are communicating and that they might add avatars or some digital thing that makes it more immersive versus someone that built the perfect digital three d avatar immersive system but doesn't have the users yet?”