Live Video
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Lenny's Podcast
Top Founders
the a16z Podcast
20VC
8 statements about Live Video, every show
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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…”