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META

A collection of 35 issues

Meta's (lack of) Agency

Back in 2018, Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook: “One of our big focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent. …recently we've gotten feedback from our community that public content -- posts from businesses, brands and media --

Golden age of Digital Ads, LLM P&L

Golden age of Digital Ads Last month, some researchers at Meta published a very interesting paper that highlighted Meta’s ability to monetize LLMs through its core advertising platform. Meta management sort of alluded to some of these during earnings calls, but this paper really drove the point home for

Digital Advertising Snapshot, Corpay 2Q'25, Portfolio Change

Digital Advertising Snapshot As is the tradition in every earnings season, I am sharing my digital advertising Snapshot after 2Q’25 earnings. Three key takeaways: 1. For the nine consecutive quarters, Meta has outpaced Google in terms of incremental share. If Meta’s guide is any indication, that will almost

Novelty bias and future of software engineering, Social's growing share in ad dollars

Alex Telford, who mostly writes on healthcare adjacent topics, recently published this interesting piece: “Thoughts on the future of software development as a non-developer”. Allow me to digress from the core point of the piece, but the below paragraph stood out to me: One of the larger workflow changes post-LLMs

Some notes from Big Tech 10-Qs

I went through Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet’s 10-Qs during this weekend, so just wanted to highlight some interesting points from their 10-Qs. Meta 2Q’25 10-Q Both Alphabet and Meta now disclose total employee compensation expenses. One of the surprising data points for me was that almost half of

Meta 2Q'25, CoStar suing Zillow, Portfolio Change

Final Reminder: Prices for new subscribers will increase to $30/month or $250/year from tomorrow. Anyone who joins by July 31, 2025 will keep today’s pricing of $20/month or $200/year. I have been publishing everyday since the beginning of this month. I hope it is clear

Meta Ray-Ban, Ads in AI Chats

I have reviewed Meta Ray-Ban glasses a couple of years ago, and I have remained a DAU since then. I mostly listen to audio (music/podcast) and receive calls through my glasses. It also allowed to capture lots of spontaneous images/videos during my daily walk. Here’s one of

MBI Daily Dose (July 16, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: Extreme leverage of AI Research team with high talent density, GLP-1 impact on Life Insurance I have been pondering about Zuck’s recent hiring spree of AI researchers. I walk ~10,000 steps everyday and during my afternoon walk yesterday,

MBI Daily Dose (July 13, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: Future of logistics, Rise of Dupes, Meta vs EU, follow-up on Wealth Ladder Austin Vernon argues that AI-driven autonomy and battery electrification may profoundly transform the labor-plus-fuel cost stack that makes trucking and last-mile delivery so expensive, putting almost a

MBI Daily Dose (July 12, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: Stripe, Google, Meta, The Wealth Ladder Emily Glassberg Sands, Stripe’s Head of Information, had an interesting podcast recently. She explained why Stripe has been building a foundation model. Stripe's massive volume of payment data is a unique