Media Industry
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Andreessen: The media industry suffers from lack of supply, not demand
“There's also, I think, just, like, enormous latent demand for actual smart, high-quality stuff. And particularly in media and in every kind of media. And I think the issue is not a lack of demand. I think the issue is lack of supply.”
Prince: AI-driven web will cause media consolidation and reduced content
“Again, I think that that's just going to mean that over time we'll have more consolidation in the media industry. We'll have less and less content. We'll have actually more salacious headlines as people are chasing The content that is, is left that's out there…”
Lessin: Media has no opportunity in the middle
“There's never an opportunity in the middle. The world tends towards disequilibrium.”
Samuelsson: Black Art Is Misunderstood Due to Lack of Diverse Editors
“One of the things as a black person, very often our arts get miscommunicated or misunderstood because there's not a lot of people of color that are in the writing or in the editor process.”
Parr: Low barrier to entry causes most media creators to execute poorly
“Media is an interesting business because the barrier to entry is really low, particularly for the written word.
Well, even for podcasts, everyone can write.
Therefore everyone, the pool of people who think they're good writers is significantly higher than like…”
Lieberman: Financial Services Has Higher Talent Density Than Media
“The density of smart, skilled, ambitious people was way higher in financial services”
Calacanis: Hit pieces on female founders get ten times more clicks
“If you go after a female founder, you're going to get 10 times as many clicks.”
Peoples Wagner: Fashion companies use performative diversity without promoting POC internally
“I think what we saw was a lot of these companies having the right policies that were really inclusive, but not actually putting the policies into practice, or really doing the front-facing things of MLK quote on Instagram, or their runway, or their cover was a…”
Lieberman tries to reserve 50% of his reading for outside his industry
“While these two stories were media related, I actually try as much as possible to reserve at least 50% of my reading for things outside of my industry.”
Ovitz: Under 25 companies controlled global media when CAA was founded
“Anything that you would read or see or hear was controlled by under 25 companies around the world. You had four television networks in the United States. You had seven motion picture studios that had all the distribution, and without that, you couldn't get you…”
Fagerlund: Media industry in 2009 refused mobile ad tech and placements
“First couple of years, we tried to sell the technology, but in the media industry at that time, nobody wanted really to be seen in the mobile and nobody wanted to buy technology.”
Pakman: Media Brands Cannot Rely on Exclusive Content in Age of Abundance
“I think media is in a, you know, a complete fundamental platform shift from an age of scarcity to an age of abundance, where you can't depend on exclusive content as a way for you to build your media brand. You have to build platforms on which other people cre…”