Archive - Internal Tech Emails

Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app"

I get that your team has issues, so fix them and ship the app.

Sep 28

Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram

The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what…

Sep 7

August 2024

"Nokia, our platform is burning"

The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience.

Aug 11

July 2024

Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel

Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030 so we can plan and position our future work…

Jul 7

June 2024

Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2"

From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google

Jun 9

May 2024

"Thoughts on OpenAI"

To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates

May 5

April 2024

Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name"

I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.

Apr 21

March 2024

When Apple considered buying Bing

Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best way to differentiate our products.

Mar 24

Sam Altman emails Elon Musk

The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the…

Mar 1

February 2024

Steve Jobs on iPhone design

This may be our answer - we could put the number pad around our clickwheel.

Feb 25

Google and AI | Elon Musk on Tesla comp

Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex, Amazon, Apple, or even a startup.

Feb 11

January 2024

Inside Apple's Marcom meeting

To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.

Jan 28

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