Franklin Foer Quotes

Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

Google indexes the world's information.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it. Snap is reinventing communication, at least for millennials and those even younger.

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.

I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.

It's strange the way Instagram has become a really crazy sourcing opportunity for me. I never thought I'd be saying that, but you see these amazing vendors halfway across the world.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks that I want, or what suits its business plan.

Most things that people want already exist, and with Amazon or eBay, there is always someone who is willing to undercut your price.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

In the '90s, I went on eBay to buy some paddle tires for my four-wheeler ATV and couldn't find any. When I did find a manufacturer that sold them, I bought 20,000 and had no problem reselling them. So the next time you get mad when you can't find an item, realize there's a market waiting to be explored.

I am a sucker for Instagram shopping.

To be on Amazon, we reached so many more people, and people can be aware of our products a lot faster. It is a plus for us, definitely.

I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.

Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

The difference between online and offline commerce is basically blurring and disappearing.

Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.

Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it.

We believe PulseRank will replace PageRank over time for the real-time Web.

With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.