Can Social Media Be Redeemed? Feat. Bobby Goodlatte

An early Facebook product designer-turned angel investor discusses how social media has changed and whether it can be changed again for the better.

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.

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• President Trump wants a cut of the TikTok deal
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• Dave Portnoy breaks into bitcoin

After Social Media with Bobby Goodlatte.

Bobby is the founder of Form Capital, a new seed investment firm that focuses on supporting portfolio companies with value-add design.

Bobby was an early employee at Facebook and has been an active angel investor since 2012, with investments that include Coinbase.

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In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:

• The early days of Facebook
• Why angel investors don’t like new angel investors to get involved
• How Silicon Valley reflects larger questions of equity valuations
• How social media has changed over the last decade
• Why politics is now “downstream from algorithms”
• Why there are still possibilities to build new social networks
• Why today’s social networks could make different decisions that would be better for the world.

Find our guest online:
Website: Form Capital
Twitter: @rsg

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