BBC

company on 28 shows · 11 statements across 8 episodes · said 178 times in 99 episodes since 2016

20VC 34 How I Built This 28 All-In 16 Another Podcast 15 Top Founders 14 the Knowledge Project 11 Capital Allocators 8 the a16z Podcast 7 Big Technology 7 TBPN 6 the Pitch 4 My First Million 4 WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 3 Acquired 2 Founders 2 Lenny's Podcast 2 A Product Market Fit Show 2 the Green Blueprint 2 the MAD Podcast 2 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 Startup Acquisition Stories 1 We Live to Build 1 BigDeal 1 David Senra 1 the Neon Show 1 No Priors 1 the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 the Startup Ideas Podcast 1

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2022 38 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
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2019 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
2018 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2016 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode

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11 statements about BBC, every show

ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Calacanis: BBC received $2.7M from USAID in 2023
“The BBC also received 2.7 million in funding from USAID in 2023.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 16:22 DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: Audience fragmentation is legacy television's greatest ongoing macro threat
“The biggest challenge, the macro challenge, the most interesting challenges is about that fragmentation and that digital transition. And that's very challenging for a legacy broadcaster like the BBC or like a network in the US, CBS, ABC, when you can see those…”
Danny Cohen Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 4:36 Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Stebbings: UK TikTok news creator reached 10M followers and faced BBC attacks
“There's a TikTok star who does kind of news in the UK, and he has ten million followers now. And the BBC attacked him recently.”
Harry Stebbings Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 13:11 Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Stebbings: BBC compensation cannot match modern independent creator earning potential
“Like, the BBC's salary incentive structure is not nearly as attractive as what one can earn in a modern media world.”
Harry Stebbings Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 16:37 Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: BBC receives 10x to 20x more young applicants than open roles
“And yeah, there's, there is, I'm sure, 10 x, 20 x the amount of young people who want to work at the BBC than they have roles for.”
Danny Cohen Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 17:14 Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: $250 Diet Coke promotion pushed 20VC to #2 in UK
“I remember going with three friends to a football stadium, and having 500 Diet Coke cans strapped in, like, drinks, rucksacks, and saying, we'll give you a free Diet Coke, if you'll give us your phone for a review. And we spent, like, the 50 P each, so like, a…”
Harry Stebbings Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 40:31 Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ANOTHER PODCAST Assertion Supported
UK youth watch more Netflix than all BBC content combined
“UK to 16 to 34 are watching more Netflix and all BBC content combined.”
Benedict Evans May 2, 2022 ▶ 13:37 Stories in the noise
Blakney acquired the viral site howmuchtoiletpaper.com to test dropshipping
“So I own a website called howmuchtoiletpaper.com. I tried dropshipping with that. Purchased it two years ago because it went viral during COVID. For those of you know, SEO, it had like, it got like 5000 backlinks. We're talking, it was featured on the BBC. Bec…”
Ray Blakney Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 44:47 $500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hendricks Licensed $250K BBC Documentaries For $1,000 Per Hour
“So a documentary that the BBC would have spent a 100,000 to 250,000 dollars on, I could really license for only a thousand dollars an hour.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 32:48 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
BBC and Honda Are Top-Tier Enterprise Customers for Shorthand
“And then at the top end, we've got, you know, the likes of the BBC Honda, et cetera.”
Ricky Robinson May 3, 2019 ▶ 15:44 1378 250 Content Producers Pay Him $6k/yr For Storytelling Drag and Drop Platform
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Playbuzz is used by ESPN, BBC, and tens of thousands of publishers
“Total publishers is, you know, tens of thousands. But, ah, you know, what's I think really important is that market leaders such as ESPN, Huffington Post, the BBC, Sky, MTV, ah, and many others are using our toolset”
Shaul Olmert Nov 12, 2017 ▶ 3:20 841: Why He Can Charge $1000 CPMs, $31m Raised Helping Create Better Content

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