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Hastings: Humans biologically separate passive storytelling from active gaming
“We're in lean back mode with a TV and we're mostly wanted to tell us a story. If you think of young kids, Two year olds. They're half of the time. They're like, you know, daddy, read me a story. And half of the time it's daddy play with me. And these like are …”
Reed Hastings Jan 6, 2026 ▶ 39:44 The Netflix Culture Code That Changed Entertainment Forever | Reed Hastings Interview · Invest Like The Best
WTF Disclosure
Sarandos: Netflix is optimizing games, including multiplayer party titles, for TV
“Now we're optimizing some of the games for TV as well, including a multi multiplayer party games and those kinds of things too.”
Ted Sarandos Jun 7, 2025 ▶ 1:51:11 Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Contradicted
Wang: Costco had no market share for TVs around 2004-2005
“Around, I think, 2004, 2005, I used to sell computer monitor at Costco, so I know the people a little bit. I had a connection there, so at the time, Costco had no market share for TVs.”
William Wang Apr 14, 2025 ▶ 45:18 Vizio: William Wang
THE PITCH Opinion
Bokoff: Hotels Haven't Been Disrupted Since the 1950s TV Adoption
“Hotels haven't been disrupted since widely adoption of the TV in like the 19 fifties.”
Peter Bokoff Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:12 #2 iMirror
Enjeti: Vision Pro struggles because television viewing is fundamentally social
“The problem with the entire Vision Pro right now is that it's just a singular experience. It's only happening when I'm by myself. And TV is actually way more social than people think.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 53:24 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Top YouTube Creators Get Up to 90% of Viewership From TVs
“Like for example, this might shock some people in the audience, but for a lot of our biggest clients in my company, we're getting 6070, sometimes as high as 90% of our viewership. From TV. So from people watching on TV as their primary device type.”
Paddy Galloway Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 4:51 I Asked MrBeast’s Ex-Strategist How to Hit 100k on YouTube
TBPN Opinion
Coogan: Mainstream broadcast TV news is truly gone
“Like, the mainstream just turn on the TV is, like, truly gone, so I'm excited.”
John Coogan Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 2:39:55 Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Hays: YouTube viewership is now predominantly on TV screens
“YouTube viewership is now, I think, predominantly on the TV.”
Jordi Hays Nov 3, 2024 ▶ 1:47:03 The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
Devins: Vision Pro is the best single-person TV money can buy
“This is like the best TV money can buy. It's a TV for only one person, but if you're by yourself, this is a, this is by far the best television set you will ever experience.”
Benedict Evans Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 16:17 Apple's Vision Pro
FOUNDER'S JOURNAL Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lieberman: Future Vision Pro generations could replace phones, computers, and TVs
“As technology continues to improve, I would not at all be surprised to see a future generation of this product that not only is mass market, but is delivering society a better new version of phones, computers, TVs, and gaming consoles in a single experience.”
Alex Lieberman Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 16:03 Why The Next Big Thing Looks Like a Toy? Ft. Apple Vision Pro
Isenberg: Broadcast TV Clips Spread Faster and Carry More Credibility Online
“And the clips, because you're on TV, because like, it's, it looks like TV. Everyone knows what TV looks like. There's more credibility. It spreads quicker, and it's just more viral.”
Greg Isenberg Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 31:55 Brainstorming $1M Business Ideas with Tiago Forte
WTF Assertion Supported
Sivanandan: India's television reach is approximately 800 million people
“The reach of TV, because you have to include free dish as well, right? The reach of TV is about eight hundred million people.”
Sajith Sivanandan Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 35:03 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
NEON SHOW Assertion Partly supported
Mehta: Ather, Ola, and TVS captured 50% of EV sales in FY23
“So, last year, I think about six, seven lakh vehicles were sold, ah, electric. us, Ola, TVS were about, I think, 50% of it. I think we did one lakh, I think Ola did 1.5 lakhs, and TVS did, again, just under a lakh. So about three, three and a half lakh betwee…”
Tarun Mehta Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 20:05 ATHER FOUNDER: "Selling Over 11,000 Scooters Per Month & Creating India's Best EV Brand" | Tarun M
WTF Opinion
Kamath: Public Disenfranchisement Leads Viewers to Assume TV News Is False
“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.”
Nikhil Kamath Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 2:51 Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bedi: Print media will die in its current form within a decade
“I wouldn't invest in TV anywhere in the world, but I think over the next 10 years, print will die in my view in its current shape and form.”
Umang Bedi Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 2:24:29 Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2032
Evans: Linear TV ad slots will disappear within 10 years
“Half of the ad, global ad industry is still on TV. And that's not going to be there in 10 years' time, or it won't be quote unquote TV. I mean, this is this whole, what is TV? You know, is Disney, you know, if you watch it on your smartphone, if you watch YouT…”
Benedict Evans Apr 25, 2022 ▶ 20:59 Netflix isn't a tech company
NEON SHOW Insight
Gill: Digital tests creative concepts while scaled TV delivers cheaper reach
“I think the digital gives you a good way to experiment on your creative cons. And then if you think that it's working well, then you can actually take it to a much larger kind of a reach, right? And I think TV on a large scale turns out to be much cheaper way …”
Aarti Gill Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 43:46 Building A 180 CRORE Women Nutrition Brand! ft. Aarti Gill, Co-Founder, OZiva
a16z Prediction Didn’t hold up
Evans predicts TVs will become secondary display screens controlled by smartphones
“For the vast majority of people, the TV will be done whilst for the smartphone. Rather than, so it won't be a box that's plugged into your TV that runs your whole digital experience.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:06 a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
a16z Prediction Partly held up
Chris Dixon: Television and sports programming will unbundle and move to mobile
“Video, you know, TV is going to move to the mobile phone. HBO has already gone unbundled. Sports is going to go unbundled.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:30 a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
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
a16z Assertion Supported
Evans: TV sets are now a minority of video-capable devices
“Not the minority of consumption, which is still heavily on TV, But a minority of the devices that people can use. It's now heavily outnumbered by all these other screens.”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 18:18 Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015

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