press

“Engaging with press is a little bit like selling enterprise software. It's a relationship, and it's a long sales cycle. It's not a transaction.”

“The vast majority of people are not running around, like, where's my next outlet? Except the press might be. Particularly, you know, you go to CES and, you know, it's a whole day of taking pictures and all that. The 85% use case is completely covered here.”

“Then, obviously, there's press, which is the least controllable, because whatever you say, it goes through their filter, and like, they end up, what gets used, and how, and all of that, so I'm sure you know the pitfalls, but it also is, in some ways, the most …”

“And at the same time, I think it's really important for internal folks to be talking to the press, because you kind of lose touch. What is even a good story? What are they thinking? Like, what, what's kind of in the water? And not knowing that at all is just r…”

“There is a pretty active campaign in the other direction and, you know, that, that campaign has taken hold of a lot of universities, a lot of government agencies you know, a lot of the power structure of the people who get to decide whether things are legal. T…”

“I would never, like, I think there's no reason to like tell your primary story through the press. I think that's very dangerous.”

“Usually the VCs would want to talk to the press, and some of them had been clients, at the IPO time. So they wanted to basically have no risk. But then when the company goes public, it's like, hey, I did that, right?”

“What is the, you know, vanguard of tech right now? And one of the things is AI. And so the, of course, the press hates AI with the fury of a thousand suns. And so the press is running this, you know, sustained, you know, kind of fear campaign on AI.”