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Hastings: HBO excels at content but lacks strong technology capabilities
“And if we can combine the two of them better, that protects us against HBO, which is very good at content, but not so good at tech.”
Chris Dixon: Television and sports programming will unbundle and move to mobile
“Video, you know, TV is going to move to the mobile phone. HBO has already gone unbundled. Sports is going to go unbundled.”
Evans: Gaming stream viewership is larger than Netflix, HBO, or ESPN
“Watching people play games is now bigger than Netflix, or bigger than HBO, or bigger than ESPN.”
Hastings: Netflix competes for broad leisure time, not just Amazon or HBO
“It's not just competing against Amazon or HBO, it's really this open competition for time.”
Neistat's early YouTube videos got 500 views despite his active HBO show
“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…”
Evans: Apple TV adds an SDK but leaves TV's commercial model intact
“Version two of the Apple TV is not a fundamentally new product. That is to say, it's basically the same UI concept. It's basically the same stuff, except that now there's an SDK. So to get HBO onto it, Apple doesn't have to write the app. To get X or Y or Z on…”
Dick Costolo worked as unpaid technical consultant on HBO's Silicon Valley
“I contacted the HBO folks who were doing the TV show Silicon Valley and said, hey, I want to come work on Silicon Valley, and the CEO of HBO, Richard Pepler, said, well, we need a, like, technical consultant, but, like, we can't, like, pay you to do it. And I …”