If he quits today, the stock likely tanks.

If he quit today I’d immediately buy the stock.

He’s the sole reason I don’t own it and never have.

They have some of the best engineering talent among the big players, but he’s kind of terrible at product vision and historically supposed to be a micromanager.

As an example, I recall discussing a dislike button with an employee a decade ago. No public indicator, just telling the algorithm “I don’t like this” to balance the public “I like this”. Allegedly, that was infamously a no-go from the very top.

Fun fact: when training an AI on data, the gold standard is to have both positive and negative reinforcement metadata.

I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to be a fly on the wall when his ML engineers were explaining to him just how valuable it would have been to have over a decade of both signals from billions of people when they were shifting gears into competing with OpenAI/Google on AI.