Digital Revolution

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Freston: Legacy Cable Networks Relied on Content Scarcity and Editorial Control
“The digital revolution began to hit and break up this ecosystem, which we survived on the fact that we had this central operation where we were like editors. We could manage because of scarcity. We didn't have to put out a lot of things.”
Tom Freston Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 15:28 Broke and in debt at 33 — then he built MTV (co-founder Tom Freston)
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Arthur: The digital revolution shifts to a new theme every 20 years
“About every 20 years, the digital revolution gets a new theme.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:14 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech

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