I imagine you'll never read this, Lex," but I'll give it a go anyway. I think I can answer the question posed around the <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvpNKUPbIY&amp;t=1h35m00s"">1:35:00</a> mark about why Zuckerberg/Gates/Jack etc. are unpopular among the general public. After asking the question", you also go on to posit that social media company CEOs are unpopular because that's somehow the nature of the business, or reasons otherwise unclear. Systrom argues that it's based on how a product makes someone feel and argues that both Jack and Bezos are well-liked and respected. It's possible that this is true in part, but my intuition is that Systrom's position comes too much from the inside of the business, as I can imagine that both Jack and Bezos are highly respected within their respective businesses,. but I don't think either is particularly well-liked by the public, and I think I know why: authenticity.<br><br>It may be impolite to say, but Zuckerberg is often presented as a robot, the QAnon people probably really think he is a robot. Jack showed up on Rogan with a lawyer and basically made an ass of himself. Bezos is basically a meme, transforming from a nerdy guy to a roided up CoolGuy that still gets his girl stolen by DiCaprio. Meanwhile, Elon shows up and smokes a joint with Rogan, is wonderfully whimsical and strange, but also generally chill. I think their personalities, or how they managed their public persona, is key to whether they are liked. Elon presents himself as authentic, he puts up polls on twitter about his decision making (selling stock, buying memecoins). That these moves are calculated in advance doesn't seem to matter, because most people seem to find it funny and endearing. You get closer to Elon by him showing his thought processes, while you feel more alienated from Zuckerberg when he puts up some marketing video where he talks about the metaverse... It's just weird and off-putting, some would say autistic, but I don't think that's necessarily the issue. <br><br>I think this same thing explains part of why Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and you, yourself, are popular (obviously not solely, but I think authenticity is an important part). In a world that's fake and plastic (ironically in part because of apps such as Instagram, social media is making people hunger for <i>real</i> contact more than ever), people long for the good ol' Internet that was full of real shitpoasting that was free and fun.<br><br>That's my take, may be complete shit, but my credentials are two fold: I'm a PhD in psychology and I've been shitpoasting for two decades.<br><br>Thanks for your hard work, these are all great!,(reply>), @Mike Both are assholes when you ask their employees. Musk might act cool, but forcing staff to work 24/7 is definitely still an asshole move.,(reply>), to put it simply, Zuck is a greedy asshole, and Elon is trying to make the world better,(reply>), @Gray Man i totally agree. He pictures instagram in the beginning as a platform for people to share great photos of unseen or interesting things, or even something about yourself. But today, the platform is a pure self-presentation universe and may that be because algorithms realised that this generates most users, increases screen time etc? <br><br>He doesn't go into that and dodges it so hard even though the platform inherently needs an algorithm to decide on what is in the feed ..,(reply>), I listened to interview and walk away disappointed because they glossed over some serious issues. Lex asks great questions then he lets the guest off the hook. The elephant in the room was always about all the data these platforms are vacuuming up and what are they doing with that data.,(reply>), Amazing comment