Comcast
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Scott Kupor · said 60 times in 24 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2026 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 35 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
- What's Next for the Internet?
- a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
- a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about Comcast, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Kupor: SaaS subscription economics mirror traditional cable and telecom business models
“None of this stuff is actually that new, this concept that we're talking about here, right? So if you think about, you know, a company like Comcast, right, or you think about AT&T, they'got this same problem, which is, you know, it costs a lot of money to acqu…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Hastings: Comcast bought NBC Universal for tax efficiency, not vertical integration
“So it's a tax law thing. So if Comcast is very profitable, if you return all that money to your shareholders, it gets taxed. So the shareholders would like you to invest it smartly if you can, if you're trusted to invest it, rather than return it to them and k…”