Movies

topic on 8 shows · 19 statements across 18 episodes

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19 statements about Movies, every show

INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Contradicted
Tripathi: Video gaming is bigger than movies, music, and books combined
“Because gaming is bigger than movies, music, books combined.”
Amish Tripathi Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 33:27 S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
Deora: Feature films carry the highest launch pressure of any medium
“And the higher pressure, this is on a movie because you can't do anything. It's the highest pressure. You can do some testing for like 200 people and you can say, ha, We'll reshoot. What can you do? Like 1:02, you can't get everything together again. You're do…”
Mukul Deora Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 56:38 S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: AI will make movies better and lower production costs
“I think AI will help you make movies both better and at much lower cost because you can do, you know, you can shoot a scene and then have the AI do a variation of that scene.”
Ben Horowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 50:15 Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview · Invest Like The Best
Horowitz: AI video is a distinct creative medium, not just efficiency
“It's not like making the old thing more efficient. It's a new medium. It's an actual new thing in the same ways that like movies weren't plays. You know, AI video is not video. The stories that you can tell are completely different because you can do things th…”
Ben Horowitz Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 40:09 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
WTF Prediction Not checkable as stated
Musk: Future movies and games will be overwhelmingly real-time AI generated
“I mean, I think it's going to be overwhelmingly AI generated. Yeah. Like, yeah, real, real time movies and video games. Real, real time video generation, I think, is where things are headed.”
Elon Musk Nov 30, 2025 ▶ 1:24:15 Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
a16z Insight
Andreessen: Movies serve the cultural function ancient myths once filled
“I think movies play the role in our culture that myths and legends used to play in ancient cultures, or that novels used to play a hundred years ago. They're the art form that, that is capable of basically containing and expressing and making permanent the mos…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
Lessin: Media bifurcates into TikTok and serialized TV, eliminating two-hour movies
“Well, there's even longer stuff, like the Game of Thrones serialized, goes on forever type shit, which is like a thousand hours, and then there's like the TikTok, but the middle drops out, right? And movies as a format is the middle”
Sam Lessin Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 6:45 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: 80% of TV and movies will lose attention market share
“I think it is, let's go back to that Pareto, eighty-twenty action. I think 80% of movie, television, that kind of scripted, created, even non-scripted, that sort of entertainment slips.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 1:01:09 Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
WTF Insight
Kamath: Society should not derive its morality from movies
“I don't think movies should be where society derives their sense of morality.”
Nikhil Kamath Jul 27, 2024 ▶ 17:05 Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath
a16z Assertion Supported
Jason Citron: Gaming is larger than music and movies combined
“Today in, in, in, 24, gaming is the largest form of entertainment. Bigger than music and movies combined.”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 4:00 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Lessin: Bullish on Creators Because Media's Durable Core Is Human Connection
“I think it's going to be about connection and community, ultimately. And this is why I'm very bullish on creators, right, is for what it's worth. Like, I think people will build communities. The story medium, sure, you'll make movies. It'll be cheap to make mo…”
Sam Lessin Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 44:52 #25: TikTok, Porn and The Immediate Risks of AI · More or Less Podcast
a16z Insight
Horowitz: High costs and legal hurdles artificially limit great movies
“You know, there aren't, there should be more great movies. There definitely should, you know, given the talent of humanity, but the bar to make a movie is so high and requires, you know, so much money and so much coordination and lawyers that, that is quite di…”
Ben Horowitz Oct 1, 2023 ▶ 1:25:24 What is the Future of Hollywood?
WTF Insight
Sutaria: Modern movie audiences prioritize relatability over aspiration
“When we're looking at the movies today, we care more for relatability rather than aspiration.”
Tara Sutaria Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 47:22 Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Held up
Sam Parr: AI voice cloning will be used in future movie production
“That Anthony Bourdain thing, that's obviously, that's gonna happen. That's gonna happen in the future, how movies are gonna come about.”
Sam Parr Aug 5, 2021 ▶ 7:48 How Venture Capitalists Make Money with Brianne Kimmel | My First Million #206
McGonigal: Disturbed individuals model violent fantasies on whatever media they consume
“Your fantasies are likely to be informed by whatever media you're consuming, whether it's graphic novels or movies or video games, and so you may act out what you've seen in a game. If you weren't a gamer, you might act out what you've seen in a movie.”
Jane McGonigal Jan 19, 2021 ▶ 29:06 #101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Koppelman: Movies and television are rapidly merging on streaming platforms
“Movies exist on streaming platforms now, so I think these things are all becoming one thing pretty quickly.”
Brian Koppelman May 12, 2020 ▶ 26:42 #83 Brian Koppelman: What Really Matters
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Thompson: North American movie production has grown sevenfold since the 1990s
“Since the 19 nineties, the number of movies made in the North American market has grown by a factor of seven.”
Derek Thompson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:24 a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
Cowen: Contemporary television is overrated while movies are underrated
“I think movies are actually much better than TV. TV now is a bit overrated and movies underrated.”
Tyler Cowen Aug 21, 2018 ▶ 45:35 #39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
20VC Assertion Supported
Elman: Global video game spending exceeds movies and music
“The amount spent on games as an entertainment, it's actually bigger than movies worldwide, And it's certainly bigger than music.”
Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 23:22 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

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