Media

“Now, OpenAI got so much earned media before their IPO. And Dworkesh just absolutely put kerosene on that fire, and it made its way to national press. That story has now gotten everywhere. And this makes people, it's priming the pump to buy the IPO shares. It's…”

“So so media is not something that influences our decisions. Media is us and hence extremely crucial that we look at it with the same level of integrity and Seriousness that we look at our brains with.”

“Volume negates luck.”

“Probably the most like enlightened way to consume this media is to not read it yourself and just sort of get the filtered takes from people around you at dinners and lunches and stuff. And you just sort of let them, you know, first of all, expose themselves to…”

“The media, instead of trying to demand answers and demand accountability, it's trying to cover up and say nothing wrong happened here.”

“Media has been the single biggest winner in GQG's history in terms of absolute profits.”

“The media does not have the influence anymore. They're gone. Nobody trusts them. You know, they're all full of shit. They're always, you know, lying and they don't have the trust of the people the way that they used to. These young kids are the influencers. Th…”

“The modern forms of leverage are code, media, and capital. Zero marginal cost and uncapped and accesses this sort of global marketplace.”

“This sounds crazy, but 2017, the media world was actually more negative then than it is today.”

“Media is now a barbell. You're going to do great if you're a platform, a Spotify, a YouTube Netflix, et cetera. And you're going to do great if you're a personality individual, low, low, you're just like Joe Rogan, you're creating content. But if you're in the…”

“There's no need for government to be the provider of media. when people can, you have a, this is a media outlet right now. Why is it that you need the government to do what other people, with people, free citizens, Can do for themselves. And the answer is tha…”

“And, like, when you see the things that they can publish with unnamed sources that are completely false, with no retractions and things like that, you kind of, Start thinking that in many ways there's something super broken about media”

“As this kind of a behavior proliferates, we expect that the nature of media itself is going to change because a lot of media is now going to be derived from the prediction markets.”

“Today it's become almost a badge of honor because of how ridiculous the attacks have become. It's not just Marc Andreessen. It's not just you. It's not just Elon. It's not just the people with names. You know, they'll, they'll attack anyone that they think the…”

“And I think that that side of media is going to get supercharged. We have very sophisticated AI goon bots now. Is that a good thing? I don't know, but it's happening. And we're going to have that across like, you know, everything, every Short form video, every…”

“The media is going to love it because they're afraid that AI is going to do to them on the creative side, what social media did on the distribution side, which is replace them. So the media is going to love this concept and promote it.”

“Well, also the, it should not go overlooked that her first podcast is with her boyfriend, thus continuing the go direct trend in media.”

“After the 2012 election, right after Obama's inauguration, you can date it to right after that, because even in 2012, like, New York media and so on was saying there's no such thing as a brogrammer, ok? You can google that article. So 20 12, tech was part of t…”

“If the media hates it, you, you've really got something.”

“The media wants a different angle onto the current story of the day. They'll do that again and again. What they won't do is sort of your one-time launch of this cool thing. Maybe they do that once, but they're not going to do that again and again.”

“If a Chinese government official trusts you, the media is going to trust you. If the media trusts you, the, you know, these other business owners are going to trust. Oh, you're working with the government and you're a foreigner. You're fine by me. Right. I'll …”

“2017, writers were not the sexiest customer base in the world. No one thought they were going to build a billion dollar tech company by serving writers. In fact, people were forsaking writers, forsaking the media, turning their back on that, they'd given up on…”

“And my bet is Calci's gonna be right more often than not, because it's, like, that's just the way of the land. That's how predictive markets work.”

“If I was gonna do something today from scratch, I think the most powerful form of media is the podcast. I think that's clearly in its early stages of what it's gonna be.”

“You know, I have pretty much consciously stayed away from the media. I don't think that my job requires me to be in people's faces all the time. And personally, I'm a private person. I don't, I'm not very sort of keen on sharing things about my personal life o…”

“Look, I have no evidence of this whatsoever, but the action in the betting markets and the narrative they were trying to create in the media do line up. So if somebody was going to investigate election manipulation, this is what they should look into.”

“Venture's all about likability and access, right? And like, likability, likability plus attention gets you that access. And founders want to take money from people that they like. So if you're a likable person, you should be doing more media, more posting, mor…”

“There are so many very powerful examples of how the media colluded with the Democratic Party to fundamentally lie about things that actually happened when it relates to Donald Trump. One of the most simple and powerful was the lie about Charlottesville.”

“40% of Americans have no trust in media at all.”

“One of the things that I think is a great disservice to humanity that's happening across media across government discussions and so forth is a fear and dystopia approach to technology first versus a possibility and a creation.”

“Media has never been accurate. And so to say that, you know, the quote, the lamestream media, if you will, well, they were never not that way. We're just a little more aware of it now.”

“They care about their personal brands. They've been under fire. A lot of the university endowments have had to face really treacherous media and attacks.”

“Media is incredibly strategic to own, but a shitty business, right? Doesn't mean it doesn't create cashflow in a flyway we can build from. It's a shitty business, right?”

“What I've been building this whole time is the top of a business and not the bottom of it. Like, I thought media was the whole thing. I was like, oh, actually, media is right here, and it monetizes, but the bottom is actually where, where the business lies.”

“If you're really passionate about something, And it's niche enough. You can't just be like, I'm passionate about sports. You can't just, no, that's a cop out answer. Then you probably have an unfair advantage to build media. So create a podcast, create videos,…”

“Same with media you know, with the exception of actually podcasts, hardly anything has worked. In the last five years in media.”

“Media and e-commerce are both sexy and accessible industries. So, 50,000 entrepreneurs have gone after them, and so the next guy right now just probably isn't gonna come up with a good idea.”

“Media itself tends to lead towards Uneconomic decision making, which is to say that whether it's the arts or music can't be judged on financial metrics. And so therefore a lot of capital gets destroyed in pursuit of acquisitions and growth.”

“And the real experts are never the people who the media tells you.”

“I think they're gonna rely and care more about their relationship with someone in the media more and more, and care more about high quality information in a world of, like, massive amounts of generated content. So I think it should be net good, but it will be …”

“Media is the best industry if your intention is to launch a lot of things. Someone kind of described it once where they told me that a media company is basically a collection of different projects all under one brand, whereas a software company typically is on…”

“Success stories are not interesting. They're not interesting to anybody, right? It's not. Useful for you to just hear that someone else succeeded. What's useful is for you to hear how someone else faced challenges that you faced and got through them so that yo…”

“The number one rule here is just don't do it in a way that the people in media feel like you're playing them. They won't have tolerance for it.”

“Media is a sort of barely data-driven industry because every story is kind of different. It's like, it's hard. It's hard to optimize the product because the product changes every minute.”

“We were injected with an experimental mRNA treatment because we got Hoodwinked by the media into thinking it would prevent us from ever getting COVID, which it did not do.”

“From a media standpoint, it's also easier in my experience to get traction from a book. I was on the Today Show two weeks ago which is a pretty unique opportunity and it was a five minute segment on me and the book. Media likes to cover books, especially when …”

“Because we live in an era where the ability to create content and build an audience has truly been democratized because the cost of creating content is basically zero now, people are gravitating towards consuming content from brands that they resonate with. An…”

“And then, you know, on the other side of it, if you, like, read about this in the media or follow the public conversation, there's just this, like, horrifying, basically, you know, sort of onslaught of, like, fear and panic and hysteria about how this is, like…”

“The media's job is to be fundamentally antagonistic with the people in power, not to cooperate with them.”

“I think people are so disenfranchised by media per se, overall, that the go-to emotion of late is becoming whatever is coming on TV is probably false.”

“I used to think that media had an agenda. I actually now think that they don't particularly have an agenda other than to be relevant because they see waning relevance.”

“This kind of race to the bottom in a lot of media is going to, like, that bottom's going to hit far quicker because of AI. It's going to be really easy to be good at things.”

“If you're doing something new and if you're mission driven, and if what you're doing is truly unique and innovative, No one else will be able to tell that as well as you. Media, the most friendly, sympathetic reporter on earth could not tell that as well as yo…”

“Anybody who tells you they know what's gonna happen next with the media or with professional services firms or in the tech industry or the insurance industry or whatever, like, those people are delusional. We don't know what's gonna happen next.”

“The data was Unambiguous. That most people were skimming and scanning, and they weren't reading most of the words that any of us in the media were writing.”

“I think ultimately this is a healthy thing that's happening now. People are burnt out by the media. They assume it's link baiting. They assume this is fake news or there's an agenda and they don't trust the government.”

“There was zero interest in the exposés of the Twitter files. Why? Because the media doesn't really have an interest in exposing The permanent government or deep States involvement in censorship. They simply don't, they actually agree with it. They believe in t…”

“The media has shown zero interest in getting to the bottom of what actions our state department took, or generally speaking, our security state took that might have led up to the Ukraine war, zero interest in that.”

“And it just shows how reflexively hawkish the media is, you know, it's like, Hey, can we just wrap up this war in Ukraine before we start another war with an even more formidable super power?”

“The worst thing you can do, with all due respect to you, Harry, the media, the worst thing you can do is run your team based on the media or based on what the media is saying that you should do”