Gurley identifies smartphone transition as massive venture opportunity by pushing computing into the field and standardizing platforms.
“It's just massive. Like you have, you're pushing computing so far out into the field and you have standardized, even with two operating systems it kind of doesn't matter, you have standardized what is possible.”
Gurley identifies email and podcasting as content forms structurally resistant to platform control due to their distributed technical architecture.
“And email and podcasting are two content forms where there's no evil overlord that control. They're they're both these highly distributed things just by the way they're technically implemented.”
Gurley speculates LinkedIn's InMail monetization prevented it from capturing powerful conversations like Twitter DMs did.
“I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetize and they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would”
Gurley wonders if LinkedIn had avoided monetizing InMail like Twitter it could have hosted powerful conversations.
“I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetized. Yep. And they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would happen?”