"So being a camera company in an age of photo-taking obsession makes a lot of sense. And what’s the most important part of any camera? The lens! Snapchat’s Lenses, the technology which magically morphs and mixes your face with digital components, then, are the most important part of Snap Inc., the camera company."
"When Steve Jobs said that Apple would be making personal computers, he did not mean that he was putting a mainframe in every garage. And similarly, when Evan Spiegel calls Snap Inc. a camera company, he doesn’t mean a Leica in every hand."
"A Snapchattian camera understands itself as a device that captures and processes images for the purpose of transmission within a social network. "
Anne Fernald (Stanford) has done some really impressive research on talking to children and how that affects how well they do in school. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHwJyjm7rM)
At the end of the day one of Yahoo's primary strenghts is being a curator of information and bringing in Pogue in my opinion will improve this core competency or atleast make it seem like it does.
Great Job! All of the startup school notes being posted on the internet have helped me make up a little bit for not being able to attend startup school 2013!
"So being a camera company in an age of photo-taking obsession makes a lot of sense. And what’s the most important part of any camera? The lens! Snapchat’s Lenses, the technology which magically morphs and mixes your face with digital components, then, are the most important part of Snap Inc., the camera company."
"When Steve Jobs said that Apple would be making personal computers, he did not mean that he was putting a mainframe in every garage. And similarly, when Evan Spiegel calls Snap Inc. a camera company, he doesn’t mean a Leica in every hand."
"A Snapchattian camera understands itself as a device that captures and processes images for the purpose of transmission within a social network. "