Bob Pittman

16 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 9, 2022 by Bob Pittman · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Dec 9, 2022 negative
Insight
Pittman: MBA frameworks rarely produce effective creative messaging
“And don't think there's an MBA approach to, and we're going to rigorously Develop the message, because it rarely happens that way.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 25:49 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Pittman: Leaders should not pursue trends without understanding why they occur
“I don't want to chase it if I can't figure out why is that happening? But if I can say that's happening and I go, and now I know why it's happening, then I feel much better sort of turning the team toward that.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 8:09 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pittman: I have run weekly executive operating meetings since MTV
“Since I was at MTV, I've had a weekly operating committee meeting. Senior most eject executives get together. Why? Because we have to change the plan every week because things don't turn out as planned.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 19:08 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Bob Pittman: Core Consumer Behavior Remains Unchanged Across New Media Platforms
“I'm not sure the consumer behavior has changed much. It expresses itself differently when they're watching this screen than they're watching NBC, but at the heart of it, it's still the same desires.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 59:59 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022 positive
Insight
Bob Pittman: Work-life integration is easier to achieve than work-life balance
“I think life work balance is hard. I think life work integration is easier.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 54:21 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022 positive
Insight
Pittman: Truly courageous leaders kill mediocre projects, not just failures
“The real courageous people kill everything that's not a clear winner. Most people only kill things that are clear losers.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 13:24 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022 negative
Opinion
Pittman Admits He Wouldn't Give Today's 20-Year-Olds His Early Big Breaks
“Sadly they gave me a shot. I might not give a kid. I might go, that's a kid. I can't give him a shot like that.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 2:44 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Pittman: Changing goals and strategy signals an unviable business
“If you're having to change your goals and strategy, you probably don't have a good plan and you probably don't have a good business.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 17:48 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Bob Pittman: Building a Business for Legacy Is Kidding Yourself
“There are no legacies, unless you put your name on a building, and then they think you are the building, but have no idea who you are. Legacies don't matter. I mean, you should do what you want to do, and I think anybody who's trying to build something for a l…”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 58:38 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Assertion Supported
Pittman: MTV omitted Neil Armstrong's quote because Armstrong refused permission
“When I was at MTV, we used to have the, you know, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, planting the flag, and we originally were going to have one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and then Neil Armstrong said we couldn't use his voice, so we neve…”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 27:05 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Pittman: Team members' weaknesses do not matter if covered by colleagues
“If they've got a big weakness, as long as somebody else on the team can cover the weakness, who cares?”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 6:10 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Pittman: Creative messaging cannot be decided by a committee
“And I think in the creative process of messaging, it can't be committee decision. It's, there's a keeper of the vision of every product.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 23:24 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022 negative
Insight
Pittman: Consensus ideas in media are usually bad
“If everybody agrees on something, it's a bad idea because that's group think and that's media. If it's in the headlines, I'm not going there. There's no upside in that.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 8:58 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Pittman: Business plans exist primarily to reduce anxiety about uncertainty
“Plans are something we do to reduce anxiety. About the future, because it's always, it's a little, it takes your breath away a bit to say, I don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 19:34 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022
Insight
Pittman: Failures and successes are functionally identical stepping stones
“And I think a failure and a success is exactly the same thing. It's a stepping stone. What we call a failure is one of the stepping stones we make a turn on. We go left to right. And a success is one we goes forward, but all of them are just stepping stones.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 26:27 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022 negative
Insight
Pittman: Delaying hard decisions typically hurts outcomes
“Time doesn't help hard decisions. As a matter of fact, it often hurts them.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 12:35 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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