CNET
company on 13 shows · 9 statements across 5 episodes · said 75 times in 23 episodes since 2015
How I Built This 35 
Top Founders 12 
the a16z Podcast 11 
20VC 4 
Startups For the Rest of Us 3 
Acquired 2 
Cheeky Pint 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
My First Million 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Big Technology 1 
Lenny's Podcast
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2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
2022 32 mentions in 7 episodes 5 per episode
- WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- Amazon.com · Acquired
- Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- What You Need to Know Before Raising Capital, and The Billion-Dollar Media Company You’ve Never Heard of
- Wirecutter: Brian Lam
- Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
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9 statements about CNET, every show
Schwartz: CNET’s AI Content Strategy Would Have Succeeded Without Public Disclosure
“I think it was CNET that said they were using AI to create content. And I think they got in trouble because they said they're using AI to create content, but if they had not said they're using AI to create content, I think their entire model would have been ve…”
Merritt: Tech decisions look far more complex inside than knee-jerk outside criticism
“Human motivations are usually much more complex than that. And I've been on the inside at CNET Where people were accusing us of things and I was like, no, I'm here. I know we're not doing those things. Like, and so I also try to go like, okay, but what are the…”
Jeff Bezos and CNET founder Halsey Miner almost co-founded a startup
“He becomes friends with a guy named Halsey Miner, which listeners probably, a bunch of bells are going off, and they almost start a startup together at this point in time. The idea was it was going to be a financial newsletter idea, but they become buddies. Th…”
Lanzone: CBS Interactive funded streaming via CNET revenue 5 years before Disney+
“At CBS Interactive, we ran a portfolio of brands, and we did it by turning around CNET, which was a public company acquired by CBS, and really goosing revenue on CNET to pay for the subscription opportunity that we saw in streaming. And again, this is 20 11, 1…”
CNET pioneered modern content management systems with hundreds of daily authors
“And so they invented a lot of, like, what we call CMS, or content management systems, because they were the first to really have hundreds of authors and thousands and thousands of posts and be publishing every day.”
Mullenweg joined CNET because it allowed him to retain code IP
“And the job I took, which was for CNET, I took it for a few reasons. First, they allowed me to retain the intellectual property to the code I was creating. So normally when you join a company like Google, you sign over the rights to everything you create there…”
CNET leadership rejected Mullenweg's pitch to build hosted WordPress internally
“I had gone to CNET and said, hey, WordPress is cool, but it's really complicated to set up. If we can make it easy, you just click a few buttons and you get a WordPress, I think that'd be really popular. Let's do that. And that was my pitch to CNET. And I even…”
Early tech blogs outcompeted CNET using faster software and personal writing
“Yeah, and they were moving faster, because the software was faster. They were writing more personally, so it was more interesting and fun to read, often in first person. They didn't know it at the time, but CNET was kind of being out-competed.”