YouTube

“What Andrew Ng, at the time, he was a Stanford professor who worked on this research, used as data, was YouTube videos. So he got ten million YouTube videos. He took 200 by 200 stills from those videos, and that's the training set. And then the other dimension…”

“Algorithms are now able to watch the exact same videos that you're watching on YouTube or Facebook, and they're basically able to retroactively create the cookbook instructions for that recipe.”

“It's the same technology that allows YouTube to subtitle their videos. Which they've done for a billion YouTube videos with no human involvement.”

“If we were to add Instagram, if we were to add YouTube onto here, you would just see straight lines straight up because of how fast these things get adopted.”

“And this was so successful that ultimately the app became the most downloaded free app on both the app store iOS and also Google play for Android. And it was actually bigger than both messenger and YouTube, right?”

“Gangnam Style took five years to hit three billion views and Despacito's done it in under a year.”

“I think YouTube is the greatest MOOC on Earth, right? It's like, it's the best education system on Earth, and like, instead of sitting in a class and listening to two hours of stuff you already know, and then five minutes of learning, it's just like, boom, boo…”

“Which I think is how things get promoted these days. It's just everyone talking about it. Kind of, it used to be called water coolers, but I think it's obviously just YouTube streams.”

“You will see companies that look like the Facebook of China, look like the Google of China, look like the YouTube of China, but they're different. And that's why it's not just Chinese Twitter.”

“There are systems where robots are learning to cook food by watching YouTube videos of people cooking food. There's systems that can take photos and paint them in the style of Renoir or Van Gogh. There's algorithms that can create paintings that are indistingu…”

“In five years, I accrued 500,000 subscribers and a hundred million views, which made me a runaway success. I switched to daily content, and in the next five months, I accrued another 500,000 subscribers. So it took me five years, I duplicated in five months. I…”

“If it's on Snapchat, it needs to be funny or cool or make me look cool. If it's on Instagram, it's gotta be beautiful. If it's on YouTube, it's gotta be meaningful. If it's on Facebook, it has to be something that my friends and peers really want to engage wit…”

“I think YouTube is unique in that perspective. I think YouTube is by far the hardest.”

“When I started my YouTube channel that I have now, I had a show on HBO that was premiering a new episode every single week with a multi-million dollar marketing budget behind it. But I was putting new videos up on YouTube as often as I could, and I was getting…”

“So for me, like, there is no higher watermark In the world of filmmaking, then what it means to succeed on, on the internet, what it means to succeed on YouTube, and that's why I embrace that title.”

“Television and feature films. It is a one way street. It is a one way conversation. It's me talking to you and that's where it ends. And YouTube. YouTube is, is a symbiotic relationship between the creator and the audience.”

“There's a great chart from BuzzFeed, information from BuzzFeed on where people watch content on BuzzFeed. And, you know, it's one quarter is direct, and then it's YouTube and Facebook video and Facebook images and Snapchat.”

“It's the most human way to connect someone to what's going on in another part of the world, and you watch it, and you feel like you're there, and you have a level of empathy for what's going on that you just don't get from reading the newspaper or watching You…”

“The other thing that we saw with video was that people weren't trying to upload video to, you know, become famous or become like a YouTube famous person. They were just Uploading a video because they wanted to share it with their community of friends”

“It's just not right, particularly for a lot of these businesses where the user is the product. Right? Facebook users made Facebook. Twitter users made Twitter. You know, YouTube users made YouTube, right? It's just not right that the people who make the produc…”

“Right, but that ultimately caused them to have to sell to Google. Because they concluded that they couldn't continue to play the game that way, which was the right way to play the game. As an independent company. They needed somebody who could fight the conten…”

“I think the two big moves that That made YouTube successful, whereas all the people who tried YouTube before YouTube were broadband, that's like, 80 to 90% of it, and also social sharing.”

“We noticed that about 10 seconds into our videos, we were normally losing a little bit more than we should. Like, you know, it's a downward-sloping curve because, of course, less people are watching five minutes in than one minute in. Natural taper. Exactly. B…”

“They would take a 45% distribution fee. And they would actually sell programmatic advertising.”

“I think the reason that there is this white space out there of very high quality short form content where no one is doing it is because if your only monetization mechanism is advertising, you can't make it pay because at a 100,000 dollars a minute times 10 min…”

“Because it's ad based, a lot of the content on YouTube can't go to the depth of absurdities that you need to really make a big impact on your life or your career. Because the creators, they have these incentives to have to create content that gets lots of clic…”

“One of the top game streamers recently moved over to a crypto version of game streaming, precisely because this guy named PewDiePie, most popular person on YouTube because, precisely because he can be part of, for the reasons I articulated here, that he moved …”

“I believe the single largest category on YouTube is watching people play video games.”

“So on the topic of YouTube that's just something we've been experimenting with for the last three months. I think now we have four videos over a million views.”

“If you talk to like, if you talk to like, you know, Joe Rogan or Lex Friedman or whatever, you know, they get these stats from YouTube about completion rates, and like it's, they have incredibly high completion rates, like a very large number of people watch t…”

“X-Day was also the liberation of Meta and liberation of YouTube, right? All the countries that these racial fanatics at the NYT had occupied, right? All the networks they had occupied. That was like, you know how, like, the Nazi empire was at, like, its peak, …”

“The actual regulator of taxis is Uber or Lyft because they have real-time tracking. They have star ratings on both sides. Or your you know, some, you know, the FCC or something like who issued licenses. Well, the actual regulator of speech or what have you sai…”

“A bunch of intros to, like, my YouTube videos and tutorials now are actually my Hedra avatar using the voice that I've cloned on Hedra.”

“So we rounded up 17, 1717, and we got 51,000 check.”

“Basically, like, it actually turns out there's, like, a genealogy to it, and it actually turns out, like, a lot of it is literally, literally, it's like Call of Duty lobbies for online gaming, so it's, like, literally, like, online gaming lobbies because, like…”

“It, like, pulls analytics for me across YouTube and, like, my Mercury banking account. It can update Google documents for me. It can build a website for me.”

“What percentage of the investors in, you know, Palantir have read the S-one, K-one, right? Like, you know, 0.0001%. What percentage have you seen Alex, you know, on YouTube doing his thing? You know, 100%.”

“Twitter's influence is amazing, but it tends to be elite kind of inside group influence. I think Instagram, Facebook still, YouTube, Is where you get to the early majority.”