Tech Titans Unhinged: Meta’s Marketing Monopoly and Grok’s Rebellion Against Elon with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell, Jason Kapadia and Matt Webster - E89
Marketing agencies beware: Meta’s next move could be an extinction level event…
There are shakeups across the board in tech and social media this week, from Elon abandoning Grok and Sam Altman keeping OpenAI non-profit, to ‘The Zuck’ declaring war on the advertising industry.
Taking us through it all are the ever-reliable Jag, Jen and Jason, joined by very special guest Matt Webster!
This episode of Disconnected covers:
Meta's advertising revolution, potentially eliminating the need for advertising agencies
Elon Musk's Grok chaos, and his now-unpredictable approach to technology and social media
AI’s impact in transforming industries
Sam Altman's saga with OpenAI’s status as a non-profit model
The fallout from recent cyber attacks on businesses like M&S, and about how AI might both create and solve future security threats
Episode Highlights:
“The major win is going to be for small companies that don't have the ad budget or the expertise, and they’re just happy to give Meta that money, and it takes away the middleman between the advertiser and the platform.” - 17:05 - Jason Kapadia
“It looks like Elon’s created Grok, and now he’s abandoned it because Grok got too truthful for him. It's the intersection of strange internet culture, cryptocurrency, Elon and MAGA in one big mix.” - 27:50 - Matt Webster
“How many times can you change your mind, is OpenAI for profit or not? To a simpleton like me, I don't know the impact of it, except it's a lot of very rich people talking about a lot of money that I don't have.” - 39:10 - Jen Campbell
“As coding disappears because of AI, there'll just be more and more people just trying their hand at hacking, and it'll just go further and further down the chain till we're all getting bullied by some 15-year-old that knows how to hack our iPhones.” - 42:15 - Jag Sharma
Links & references:
Matt Webster:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwwebster/
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: