Can Social Media Be Redeemed? Feat. Early Facebooker-turned-Investor Bobby Goodlatte

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the Brief:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">President Trump wants a cut of the TikTok deal</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Previewing this week’s COVID-19 vaccine trade </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dave Portnoy breaks into</span> <a href= "https://qa.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">bitcoin</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our main conversation is with Bobby Goodlatte. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bobby is the founder of Form Capital, a new seed investment firm that focuses on supporting portfolio companies with value-add design. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bobby was an early employee at Facebook and has been an active angel investor since 2012, with investments that include Coinbase. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The early days of Facebook</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why angel investors don’t like new angel investors to get involved</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Silicon Valley reflects larger questions of equity valuations </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How social media has changed over the last decade</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why politics is now “downstream from algorithms” </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why there are still possibilities to build new social networks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why today’s social networks could make different decisions that would be better for the world. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="fon