Middleman
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Weisbrot: Investors Criticize Middlemen but Still Accept Their Inbound Deal Messages
“Most investors say they hate the idea of a middleman who's taking a success fee, but then they still go and take all of those messages from the middleman and instead of the founder who wouldn't have to pay a fee if they didn't need a middleman.”
Caron-Brown: Removing platform middlemen forces creators to handle audience recruitment
“If you take that middleman approach away, You're then responsible for recruiting all of these people, which means that it's taking away from you just creating content.”
Cairn-Brown: Unbundling media replaces human middlemen with platform algorithms
“With the unbundling, there's also, we're taking out
The middleman,
but actually instead you're putting in an algorithm”