What Alexandr Wang says he learned from Mark Zuckerberg's 'really long' WhatsApp DMs
THE SO WHAT
The meta-story isn’t the DMs — it’s that founder-to-founder channels are where strategy and distribution deals increasingly get shaped before anyone else sees the moves. If you’re relying only on formal partnerships and conferences for signal, you’re downstream of where the real alignment happens.
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