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Sarah Frier

@sarahfrier
410 posts
2026-02-19
@SimonBalmain Yes, Charles was a key architect of Instagram's cultural relevance. Really fascinated by this move!
2026-02-19 View on X
Vanity Fair

OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood

2025-04-16
But it is crazy to see stuff I had from various sources get confirmed by internal documents/emails.  Also!!  This is new to me, and not in my book: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-04-16 View on X
Bloomberg

FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook

meaning show people more ads — as a way to make more money and take some pressure off Facebook  —  Perhaps not surprisingly, IG's founders left the company a few months after all o...

Just saying, if you read No Filter, you would have known about Zuckerberg getting jealous of Instagram's growth (& why the founders left) long before this FTC trial
2025-04-16 View on X
Bloomberg

FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook

meaning show people more ads — as a way to make more money and take some pressure off Facebook  —  Perhaps not surprisingly, IG's founders left the company a few months after all o...

But it is crazy to see stuff I had from various sources get confirmed by internal documents/emails.  Also!!  This is new to me, and not in my book: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-04-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B

The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case.  Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.

Just saying, if you read No Filter, you would have known about Zuckerberg getting jealous of Instagram's growth (& why the founders left) long before this FTC trial
2025-04-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B

The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case.  Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.

2024-12-17
Question: anybody know of any homegrown Threads trends or creators that have really broken through to the mainstream?  Like, is a culture brewing here?  The numbers are big... what's the impact?
2024-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100M+ DAUs, revealing its DAU figure for the first time, and 300M+ MAUs, up from 275M+ MAUs in November 2024

It's a notable milestone not just because it's a big number; it's also the first time Meta has a daily active user figure publicly.

2024-12-07
TikTok still faces a US ban if it doesn't sell its app by Jan 19, a federal appeals court decided: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-12-07 View on X
Bloomberg

TikTok users shouldn't count on Trump to save the app, as his stance has been inconsistent and the app's existence brings little upside for him post-election

One of Trump's first important decisions could be to deprive Gen Z of its favorite app.  —  A federal appeals court ruling …

TikTok still faces a US ban if it doesn't sell its app by Jan 19, a federal appeals court decided: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-12-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests

Divest-or-Sell Order Slated to Go Into Effect Next Month Forbes : Sources: Tim Cook and senior Apple execs have been discussing how best to respond to potential TikTok ban, concedi...

2024-12-06
TikTok still faces a US ban if it doesn't sell its app by Jan 19, a federal appeals court decided: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-12-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests

Panel rules Congress has the power to shut down Chinese-backed app in the U.S. because of national security concerns

2024-10-13
A new(ish) part of my job at Bloomberg involves overseeing tech data investigations. That means I get to work with incredible reporters, editors and graphics folks on stuff like this. Please read about how this NYC driver minimum wage law went awry:
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...

2024-10-12
A new(ish) part of my job at Bloomberg involves overseeing tech data investigations. That means I get to work with incredible reporters, editors and graphics folks on stuff like this. Please read about how this NYC driver minimum wage law went awry:
2024-10-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …

2024-08-02
Intel missed the AI boom and... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-08-02 View on X
VentureBeat

Intel plans to cut 15%+ of its workforce, the majority by the end of 2024, as part of a $10B cost reduction plan and to suspend its dividend starting in Q4 2024

Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.

2024-07-17
Trump says he wouldn't ban TikTok because he doesn't want to help Meta: “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition,” he says. “If you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram—and that's, you know, that's Zuckerberg.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-07-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg”

It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.

2024-06-11
I'll take accidental emails on OpenAI financial matters over NextDoor customer service complaints any day! (But also, you don't want to send them to me! You're looking for my super successful name twin @thefriley)
2024-06-11 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI hires Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first CFO, and former Instagram and Twitter product chief Kevin Weil as its chief product officer

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :

2023-12-30
“He said he had thought of Bard as a ‘super-charged search engine’ and not a service that would generate real-looking but phony legal cases.” ... Cohen should know better, but when it's at the top of Google search, this is what a lot of people will think. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-12-30 View on X
New York Times

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen says he mistakenly used bogus legal citations from Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to court supervision

“The revelation could have serious implications for the Manhattan criminal case against #Trump, in which #MichaelCohen is expected to serve as the star witness.  The former preside...

2023-12-15
Wow, Google is going to stop retaining the data that enables it to respond to geofence warrants — the warrants that tell law enforcement which users were in the area of a crime: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Just three months after a @BW investigation by @daveyalba @byJuliaLove
2023-12-15 View on X
Forbes

Google confirms that it will no longer respond to geofence warrants after making changes to the way Maps stores users' location data

“Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have become commonplace in recent years.

2023-11-23
Bret Taylor certainly has the “board chair during chaos” experience from Twitter/Musk acquisition days...
2023-11-23 View on X
The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

Bret Taylor certainly has the “board chair during chaos” experience from Twitter/Musk acquisition days...
2023-11-23 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

2023-11-22
Bret Taylor certainly has the “board chair during chaos” experience from Twitter/Musk acquisition days...
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-11-18
Elon Musk has an incredible amount of power and influence.  When he engages with racist and antisemitic content, the consequences are huge.  We convened in the Elon, Inc. studio for a second time this week to discuss his open endorsement of an antisemitic post, and the pattern here: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-11-18 View on X
Axios

Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content

companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...