Memes
topic on 4 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
We Live to Build
My First Million
the Startup Ideas Podcast
the a16z Podcast
9 statements about Memes, every show
Lingelbach: Memes are one of the best GTM strategies for companies
“I think memes are one of the best go-to-market strategies for a lot of companies.”
Jiang: Human taste remains essential because 90% of AI-generated ideas are terrible
“I mean, the one thing you still have to have is you have to have taste. I mean, they'll give you a bunch of ideas, like nine out of 10 are shit. You have to decide, like, which one, like, you know, catches people's attention, is visually suitable, and can rela…”
Azut: No Idea Reaches Mainstream Without Becoming a Meme
“I just genuinely think that no idea will become mainstream if it's not like captured in a meme.”
Josephs: Combining Memes and Investigative Journalism Builds Online Authority
“The meme builds virality. Investigative journalist builds credibility and marrying them together. And then you have an account that's an authority.”
Greg Isenberg: Founders Should Not Build Until They Understand an Audience's Memes
“If you understand the memes, you understand the people. Don't build until you understand the memes.”
Reyes: Viral internet culture mirrors reinforcement learning from human feedback
“Reinforcement learning from human feedback is all about, it's like, okay, this meme satisfies people, so it will get repeated and repeated and repeated, and we'll just keep sampling the same distribution until that distribution is no longer satisfying.”
Building viral attention before having a targeted product fails to convert
“It's not, you build attention and then you build a business because if you build a ton of attention, posting memes, and then you try and go launch a business, like it's it, people aren't brain dead. It's not like just because they followed you, they're just go…”
Memes go viral because thousands share one synchronized thought
“Working with these meme accounts, memes are just so powerful because it's one thought, one single thought being done by thousands of people at the same time. And when that happens, it's just, it explodes because everyone sends it to their friends and that's ho…”