Comcast

company on 29 shows · 27 statements across 24 episodes · said 254 times in 127 episodes since 2015

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ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Comcast launched a $54B hostile stock bid for Disney in 2004
“Comcast, the Philadelphia based cable company, Is making a hostile takeover bid to acquire Disney for fifty four billion dollars in Comcast stock.”
David Rosenthal Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 1:36:01 Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Coogan: The Odyssey Will Gross Over $1B, Generating $250M Profit
“The base case here the film will make a little bit over a billion dollars. The cash flow to Universal and Comcast, who are the studio behind this you're looking at two hundred and fifty million dollars in pre-tax lifetime profit.”
John Coogan Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 21:08 Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Supported
Comcast Plans to Split Connectivity Business from NBCUniversal Content
“Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Comcast's decade long into trying to be a content plus distribution company is coming to an end. It's planning to split the businesses into two. The Comcast entity Will once again, becoming a, become a connectiv…”
John Coogan Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 7:14 Rocket Lab Enters SpaceX Arena, Meta’s Prediction Market, America’s Tech Wishlist | Diet TBPN
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Zimmer: Big tech ad revenue completely dwarfs legacy Hollywood studio profits
“When you look at ad revenue from YouTube or Meta or Google or Amazon, you know, which is anywhere from, you know, forty billion to two hundred and ninety five billion, as compared to ad revenue for You know, Warners or Comcast or whatever, which is like eight …”
Jeremy Zimmer Apr 9, 2026 ▶ 1:06:13 Hollywood CEO: How to Look Powerful in Any Room | Jeremy Zimmer
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emanuel: Comcast and WarnerMedia refused to bid on UFC rights
“Comcast didn't want it. Warners didn't want it. And Paramount had not decided what they were going to be.”
Ari Emanuel Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 5:17 Ari Emanuel’s "Anti-AI" Bet on Live Entertainment · Invest Like The Best
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Supported
Emanuel: Comcast paid $500M for The Office streaming window
“You're doing it at for the office. You're doing it at Comcast for that's the window. It's five hundred million dollars for the new window.”
Ari Emanuel Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 14:32 Ari Emanuel’s "Anti-AI" Bet on Live Entertainment · Invest Like The Best
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Supported
Yu: FreeWheel captured over 70% market share before Comcast acquisition
“At the end that, you know, basically we had about set over a 70% of market share for the infant industry we were in.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 16:25 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Supported
Yu: Comcast acquired FreeWheel for close to $400 million
“Comcast acquisitions, like a close to four hundred million.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 25:22 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schmorak admits to bombing early investor pitch with Comcast Ventures' Daniel Gulati
“So my first meeting was Daniel Galati, super nice guy. I went to meet with him in the Comcast offices. I totally did not do a good job without meeting with him and it's okay. I mean, it was like one of my first meetings and I actually walked out and I said, yo…”
Margot Schmorak Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:33 #36 When Two Startups Love Each Other Very Much ...
Morin: Meta's hardware strategy is identical to Comcast's living room cable box
“It's like literally no different than, it's literally no different than Comcast putting the box in your living room. That's all Meta's trying to do, right? Like, they're developing hardware to increase.”
Dave Morin Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 31:34 #71: Big Tech Earnings and the AI Revolution · More or Less Podcast
FOUNDER'S JOURNAL Assertion Supported
Lieberman: Comcast Lobbied for Years to Block Free Public Wi-Fi in Philadelphia
“Another example is Comcast, who basically has lobbied for years to have citywide Wi-Fi blocked in Philadelphia. So there can't just be general public free citywide Wi-Fi, because of course that would hurt Comcast business.”
Alex Lieberman Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 20:18 Why Coffee Chats Have Energized My Ideas
ALL-IN Opinion
Bill Gurley compares Comcast lobbyist David Cohen to Bob Marley
“Now, David Cohen is to corporate lobbying what Bob Marley is to reggae.”
Bill Gurley Sep 16, 2023 ▶ 5:12 All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
SAASTR Assertion Supported
DoNotPay operates across over 200 consumer rights areas
“We operate in over 200 areas of what people call consumer rights. Things like getting people refunds from landlords, suing Comcast, Canceling subscriptions.”
Joshua Browder Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 0:23 Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sullivan: Mapware landed Comcast by cold emailing 1,000 employees
“So our first major customer was Comcast, and we got that customer by emailing a thousand employees at Comcast, and then finally getting in touch.”
Joel Sullivan Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 10:01 3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Sullivan: Mapware originally charged Comcast roughly $250,000 per city
“Well, yeah, and our pricing model was totally different there. We were doing by a square mile at the time. And so we basically said, hey, we'll map an entire city for you for like a quarter million dollars.”
Joel Sullivan Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 14:38 3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Partly supported
Hendricks: TCI, Not Comcast, Was The Largest 1980s Cable Operator
“So there's the big, at the time, Comcast was not the biggest cable operator. It was a company called TCI, Telecommunications Inc., and they had all of about four million subscribers, but it's clear they were going to be up to six and maybe even ten million sub…”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 24:48 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Derive Systems saves Comcast $8.5M on fuel annually
“So a company like Comcast is, is got, you know, that, that portion, they've got our entire platform, but just on that portion alone, they're saving eight and a half million dollars a year on fuel. But more importantly, there's 24,000 metric tons of carbon that…”
John O'Shull Sep 5, 2021 ▶ 6:47 He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate
ANOTHER PODCAST Assertion Supported
Benedict Evans: Disney spends ~$20B on content annually, Comcast ~$15B
“Well, it turns out Disney probably spends 20, Comcast maybe spends 15, everybody else spends less. If you don't ask that question, the 15 doesn't tell you anything.”
Benedict Evans Jan 31, 2021 ▶ 8:08 Telling stories with charts
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Radius processes large third-party datasets for customer Comcast
“Comcast is a great example. Where we're running some of the stuff on their behalf, the large data sets that they may be getting from third party writers, just faster for us to do it internally.”
Joel Carusone Oct 17, 2019 ▶ 11:13 1545 Radius CEO on 3 Pricing Axis, 100 Customers, 150%+ Net Revenue Retention, $100m ARR by 2020?
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Sachs: AppDirect powers cloud commerce for Comcast and global telcos
“We work with a lot of major telcos, Comcast and others around the world, helps them get to market faster.”
Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 2:51 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Reality Central failed because major cable networks refused to grant distribution
“It was more about trying to get the distribution, which ultimately was the Achilles heel and why it didn't work. And because we had to go to like Comcast and Time Warner and Charter and these big organizations that are cable networks that host all the channels…”
Blake Mycoskie Feb 11, 2019 ▶ 17:08 TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
MAD Disclosure
Comcast invested in K Health and is deploying to 200,000 employees
“Comcast is a big investor, and they're rolling out a KR too. They have about 200,000 employees.”
Allon Bloch Jan 16, 2019 ▶ 17:13 Building An Info Layer for Personal Health // Allon Bloch, K Health (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Insight
Hastings: Comcast bought NBC Universal for tax efficiency, not vertical integration
“So it's a tax law thing. So if Comcast is very profitable, if you return all that money to your shareholders, it gets taxed. So the shareholders would like you to invest it smartly if you can, if you're trusted to invest it, rather than return it to them and k…”
Reed Hastings Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:15 a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
a16z Assertion Supported
Evans: Apple built tvOS architecture enabling full cable app integration
“Apple has kind of built the architecture that would let you do that. They built the architecture that would let Comcast do that, if Comcast chooses to do that, but they didn't have it on the stage.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:26 a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
a16z Insight
Kupor: SaaS subscription economics mirror traditional cable and telecom business models
“None of this stuff is actually that new, this concept that we're talking about here, right? So if you think about, you know, a company like Comcast, right, or you think about AT&T, they'got this same problem, which is, you know, it costs a lot of money to acqu…”
Scott Kupor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:55 a16z Podcast | Valuing Today's Fast-Growing Software Companies
MAD Disclosure
Comcast uses CockroachDB's geo-partitioning feature within the United States
“Well, one interesting one is Comcast. And, ah, they're using it only in the United States, but they're actually using this geo-partitioning feature.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 19:23 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Holliday: Large enterprises share virtually identical internal scale problems
“Customers all have the same problems, right? So it's a little bit indistinguishable when you go between like a Comcast, a GE, you know, they all have the same scale problems. They all have you know, the growth, their own kind of internal processes, a lot of th…”
Linda Holliday Apr 12, 2018 ▶ 15:07 992 Is She Building The New Wordpress for Enterprise?

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