A single tweet by Kylie Jenner saying she no longer used Snapchat caused the company's market value to drop by approximately one billion dollars.
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The second main topic opens with Marina recapping the Google Glass saga — Richard's delight at its failure, and his subsequent dismay that wearable cameras have returned bigger than ever. Meta's approach has been strategically different: rather than presenting the glasses as a tech product, the company went to Essilor Luxottica, the conglomerate that owns Ray-Ban, and insisted on fashion-first design with the technology hidden inside [1] — Marina Hyde "Tech companies have always sold hardware the Steve Jobs way: walk on stage, explain the specs, command the room. Zuckerberg doing that in t…" 32:10 . The result is Kylie Jenner's Starfire model, priced around $300–$400, with Jenner's voice as the AI assistant. Marina's verdict on the previous approach is unsparing: Mark Zuckerberg walking on stage wearing the thing he is trying to sell is commercial suicide, because as 'Earth's most malevolent dweeb', he is constitutionally incapable of making anything aspirational. She then observes that celebrities have historically kept their distance from Silicon Valley partnerships — Scarlett Johansson's very public dispute over her voice being used by OpenAI is cited as evidence that most stars sense a threat. The Kardashian-Jenners are the exception: they will sell anything, consider no backlash too serious, and have accordingly become the bridge between tech and mass-market consumer desire that Meta needed.
Tech companies have always sold hardware the Steve Jobs way: walk on stage, explain the specs, command the room. Zuckerberg doing that in the glasses he's trying to sell is a disaster. Hot, aspirational people selling accessories is how accessories actually sell — which is why Meta needed Kylie Jenner.
Most celebrities stay wary of Silicon Valley deals because they sense the tech companies might destroy them. Not the Kardashian-Jenners. They will sell anything — Marina Hyde is amazed they don't have defense contracts. Any backlash is water off a duck's back when you draw your power from it.
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