Entertainment
topic on 7 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
More or Less 
Invest Like the Best 
Sourcery 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In
11 statements about Entertainment, every show
Hammer: Treating storytelling exclusively as entertainment is a modern 40-year aberration
“I think that's a recent meaning in the last 3040 years phenomenon where, where, Storytelling became entertainment almost exclusively, and I don't think that's really the genealogy of that space at all.”
Sam Lessin: Dopamine-driven entertainment businesses face a losing war for attention
“One, I'm very short entertainment, because that's just a complete war of entertainment, right? Like dopamine hits is a war of entertainment. You're gonna lose. There's always gonna be someone else competing for the attention and be bigger, faster, and better.”
Tim Dillon: Flawed and fallible people make for better entertainment than perfect ones
“It didn't work because people at the end of the day realize that people are flawed, fallible, and human, and that's what makes them entertaining. You don't want a perfect person doing anything because that person is not going to be terribly interesting. You wa…”
Mansour: Entertainment and pop culture are Kalshi's fastest-growing markets
“One of our fastest growing segments Right now is, is actually, especially in January is, so obviously politics is big. I mean, I think sports will end up being pretty big. We have crypto and financials are really large, but the fastest growing right now is act…”
Ovitz: U.S. entertainment was historically second largest export behind aircraft
“At one time, entertainment was the second largest export of the United States, which no one realizes between movies, television, books, and records. Second largest export after aircraft.”
Sam Lessin says internet economics optimize for entertainment over information
“The reality is the economics and the incentive of the internet are as an entertainment machine, right? And that's actually what we've been able to instrument and optimize. That's what the incentive structure works like that.”
Lessin: AI bot content will commoditize entertainment, shifting value to communities
“The bots And that content wipes out all the entertainment stuff. Like that's just going to be noise. And like, it's a, maybe it's an acquisition strategy, but it's not a business. All the business has to be on that. What's capital rich. And I think that will b…”
Andreessen: Cultural norms are subverted through entertainment
“Subversion of cultural norms, you know, basically happens through entertainment.”
Lantz: Entertainment is hard to predict because art must be unpredictable
“It's particularly hard to predict entertainment. Because part of the job of art and entertainment is to be unpredictable.”
Bushnell: Entertainment is fragile because it is driven by novelty
“Entertainment is very fragile. It's driven on novelty.”