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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.”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2018 ▶ 15:10 The End of the Beginning
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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…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:41 a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
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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 …”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:52 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
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