Live Video

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8 statements about Live Video, every show

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Hassabis: A million-token context window holds only 20 minutes of live video
“And then the problem is if you're then trying to try and process live video, and you're just going to naively record all the tokens, then actually a million tokens isn't that much. It's only like 20 minutes.”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 5:49 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
Beykpour: Generalized live-only consumer video apps cannot be durable standalone products
“I still am very skeptical that there can be a consumer product that is just focused on live video, like a generalized synchronous live video application for short form video. I don't think can be durable on its own.”
Kayvon Beykpour Apr 28, 2024 ▶ 1:02:41 Twitter’s ex-Head of Product on Elon, consumer products, culture, more | Kayvon Beykpour
a16z Disclosure
Tracy Sun: Poshmark invests heavily in short-form and live streaming video
“Fast forward to today, and we have had to continue to innovate over the 11 years or so that we've been in business. And for example have really invested in video product, which we would never been able to do back, you know, back, back in the days. And so short…”
Tracy Sun Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 4:24 Future of Resale: AI Styling, Live Video, Social Marketplaces | Field Notes by Connie Chan
20VC Insight
Beykpour: The product-market fit for live video is hanging out, not news broadcasting
“That is not the product market fit use case. That is the exception use case. The product market fit use case is people use live video to hang out.”
Kayvon Beykpour Jun 8, 2022 ▶ 46:11 Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Live video is a feature, not a standalone product category
“And we know today that live video is not what we thought it's going to be three, five years ago. It's actually a great feature on top of existing platform that is being used by celebrity media news more often than the next person.”
Ben Rubin Aug 21, 2020 ▶ 17:52 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
Hoover: Live video products face severe retention hurdles due to content creation friction
“The problem was the product itself was not retentive, and, you know, most people are really bad, including myself, at live video. It's just really hard to create good content, and to watch live video, you have to watch it when it's live, too. So there's like a…”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 42:53 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
a16z Opinion
Neistat: Live streaming is boring unless centered on an event
“Live is really, really boring. Yeah, unless it's an event, centered around an event, it's boring.”
Casey Neistat Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:16 a16z Podcast | I Reject the Term Viral Video
Vaca: Driving live video tune-in outside of sports is extremely difficult
“The biggest problem with live and the broadcast media industry today is seeing is to drive tune in outside of sports is extremely hard.”
Eddie Vaca Jun 17, 2016 ▶ 7:59 He Can Get You 100,000 Quality Live Viewers Instantly, Ep 294: Eddie Vaca

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