Midjourney
also referred to as: mid-journey
18 statements across 17 episodes · 14 bullish · 1 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Mar 9, 2023 by Guy Parsons · said 84 times in 38 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Steph Smith (15), Olivia Moore (11), Anjani Mitra (8), Martin Casado (6), Marc Andreessen (6), Karen X. Cheng (5), Anish Acharya (5), Jonathan Lai (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2025 21 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
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- Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
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- The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
- The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows
- Build Your Startup With AI
- Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 25 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- 2024 Big Ideas: Anime Games Go Mainstream with Robin Guo
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
Everything said about Midjourney, oldest first
Mar 9, 2023 bullish
Parsons: Midjourney iterates on image models faster than OpenAI
“But then, of course, you have now tools like Midjourney, who've been, like, iterating on their text-to-image model, like, a lot more aggressively than OpenAI, who Understandably, I think maybe have some other things in the cooker, you know, which have now grow…”
Jun 10, 2023 positive
Andreessen: Around 100 million people actively use generative AI applications
“And then there's a bottoms up phenomenon, which is it's already long, like people are already experiencing it, right? It's like in the form of, like, GPT and Midjourney and all these other new kind of amazing AI apps that are kind of running wild online. And s…”
Jun 13, 2023 positive
Dec 16, 2023 positive
Lai: Subscriptions will become default business model for AI games
“My guess is that companies like mid journey or care, like character AI have been able to address this with a subscription model. And so basically every power user pays for their own sort of like inference costs, so to speak. And we could see that subscription …”
Dec 17, 2023 positive
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Discord invite traffic predicts which generative AI products will launch top apps
“Like, if you wanted to predict what's gonna be on the list in six months, Looking at the Discord data, you can even track, like, which Discord pages are getting the most invite traffic or things like that as a proxy for interest. And many of those companies th…”
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Jun 23, 2024
Mar 7, 2025 neutral
Casado: Leading AI consumer products launch web-first before releasing APIs
“Anecdotally, other than like, say, maybe like mid-journey and Discord, all of these are web technologies, like ChatGPT, Ideogram, like all of them, Claude, I mean, it seems like that the first place that they land is a website, and then maybe an API, which you…”
Mar 26, 2025
Moore: Midjourney and Character.ai launched before ChatGPT in 2022
“Actually, Midjourney and Character AI both came out before ChatGBT, which I think a lot of people don't know, but there was maybe these early niche communities of early adopters that were using both of those products in the summer and the fall of twenty-twenty…”
Aug 22, 2025 negative
Casado: OpenAI lost early leads in code, image, and video to rivals
“It was co-pilot, right? But they lost that. And then they were actually the first to image, really, with Dali. They lost that, right? Mid-Journey came out. They were kind of the first to, like, real video with Sora, and they lost that. And yet, they've gotten …”
Sep 4, 2025 positive
Casado: ElevenLabs and Midjourney have excellent unit economics
“For AI, for better or for worse, like, you have great unit economics. I mean, you know, everybody knows kind of like when we always talk about the opening eyes and the anthropics, but do you talk like the 11 labs, for example, or mid journey? I mean, these are…”
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Dixon: Modern software network effects are externalized to the web ecosystem
“Maybe a lot of the network effect has been externalized to the internet, right? And so the idea being, you know, your cursor, and then suddenly all of the, you know, it becomes popular or, you know, mid journey, let's say, right? And then you get all of these,…”
Sep 24, 2025 bullish
Casado: Early AI breakouts gain strong brand effects over model performance differences
“Honestly, last quick point on this is, like, for the first time in a very long time, we're seeing brand effects with an early technology, and what I mean by that is, if you look at, like, whatever, the major model providers, you know, how much better are they …”
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Justine Moore: Midjourney stands apart for default aesthetic quality
“Yeah, I think there's definitely different styles still, and I think mid-journey, when you talk to people really deep in image and video, it still kind of stands apart for this, like, aesthetic sensibility that a lot of the models don't have if you don't know …”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Aug 20, 2026 positive