Authors

“Anthropic just had to pay out billions of dollars to authors.”

“The book will probably have more, you know, it's not going to be fully sufficient, but if you can't do, if you can't give a good talk, you probably don't have a good book.”

“We have more authors in India than bookstores. There are 5200 bookstores. Live authors, we have at least Thousands, 10,000, all languages put together.”

“Authors become 80% more likely to decrease, or sorry, to delete their post after they get noted.”

“For 95 plus percent of authors I talk to, I tell them, it doesn't really make sense for you to do that.”

“I think there's an amazing opportunity. For AI here to build coachable AI bots based on authors. And I am so skeptical about AI and so many things, but I think the detail and the rigor and the framework and the word count of a book, I think if they had lecture…”

“I really personally aspire to the lives and businesses of authors more than anything else because they're able to like Spend a lot of time investing into making this one really great long form product. And build really lean businesses on the back of that.”

“I think books traditionally are a horrible way to make money off of someone who spends like, you know, two years of their life writing something like it's pretty shitty.”

“The authors of most books are looking for many of the magical elements of status that come from successfully being published. They pay attention to the bestseller list. They game it. They pay attention to reviews. They worry about what their friends think of t…”

“I realized that as soon as a publisher owned that ebook, right, they were going to jack up the price to protect their other ebooks. And this is something a lot of authors don't think about your competition for them. Like the people that own your book competes …”

“So over the life of a book, five to 10 years, you actually become the number one consumer, the number one purchaser of your own book.”

“What's interesting is that well, the authors of the paper sometimes, you know, they are not going to know where people are going to struggle understanding the paper, oftentimes. I remember when I was annotating the Ethereum white paper, right? Written by Vita…”

“Every time we talk with an author, I think it's easier for them to answer questions about their papers than to annotate the paper.”

“I came to the conclusion that self publishing for 99, you know, point something percent of authors is the way to go.”

“Our top earning authors today, and last year our top author made over two million dollars in royalties in a single year.”

“If you're an author and you start a podcast and you freaking suck at it, like a lot of them do, all the editing in the world is not going to make you more interesting, unfortunately, and there's a lot of authors that are not that interesting other than when th…”