Video

topic on 20 shows · 32 statements across 30 episodes

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32 statements about Video, every show

BIGDEAL Insight
Taylor: Video is the top driver of Kickstarter campaign success
“Launching a video is like the number one thing I see for people that are successful on the platform. I lied to you not. Like, most of the time when I see a Kickstarter failed, they didn't even care to do a video.”
Everette Taylor May 27, 2026 ▶ 13:59 Mutli-Millionaire CEO: The Simple Steps to Self-Made Success | Everette Taylor
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Angelopoulos: LMArena to launch video evaluations by early next year
“Video we're soon to launch on the site at some point, you know, later this year or early next.”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 18:58 [State of Evals] LMArena's $1.7B Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena
WTF Prediction Not checkable as stated
Musk: Future internet interaction will be mostly real-time AI video
“Most interaction is going to be video in the future. Most interaction is going to be a real-time video with AI, so real-time video comprehension, real-time video generation.”
Elon Musk Nov 30, 2025 ▶ 4:16 Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2030
Reid: The web will become increasingly multimodal with more video and audio
“I think it is probably even more multimodal, multi-format. Like I would certainly expect video to continue to grow. I would certainly expect audio and not just, you know, text with some images to grow.”
Liz Reid Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 59:48 Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spahr: AI systems currently source text significantly more strongly than video
“When it comes to video, AI isn't sourcing that as strongly as it's sourcing written online content, which is easier for it to digest.”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 6:27 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Isenberg: Founders are crazy to launch products without video on X
“You know, this community lives on X. So and X prioritizes video. So you're kind of crazy if you're launching a product without a video.”
Greg Isenberg Apr 18, 2025 ▶ 29:33 We Vibe Code a $30K/month SaaS App in 64 Minutes (Replit)
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: Nvidia stock is down 15% following DeepSeek release
“Yeah, and video's down 15.”
Jordi Hays Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 0:14 DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nvidia Employees Call Jensen Huang 'Professor' for Compulsive Whiteboard Teaching
“And in fact, the people that work with Jensen, they call him professor, professor Jensen. And they talk about the fact that he has a very, he's a, he's really good at explaining complicated concepts in a way that almost anybody can understand. And the way he d…”
David Senra Jan 14, 2025 ▶ 31:13 How Jensen Thinks
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Partly supported
Seelbach: Traditional deposition transcripts take three to four weeks without expedite fees
“Unless I wanted to pay double or triple, I wouldn't expect to get a copy of the transcript and the video until three to four weeks later.”
Karl Seelbach Jan 7, 2025 ▶ 6:42 13 - Revolutionizing Legal Depositions with Skribe Founder Karl Seelbach
WTF Prediction Not checkable as stated
Domestic robots and autonomous cars require AI systems to learn from video
“We're going to have, at some point, domestic robots and you know, self-driving cars and things like this once we figure out how to get the system to learn how the real world works from video.”
Yann LeCun Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 1:30:40 WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kolter: Video will soon cease to be trusted as objective evidence
“Video is a short blip where we sort of think that there's some objective evidence for a hundred years of our history, and that's going to be now, that's no longer true pretty soon.”
Zico Kolter Sep 4, 2024 ▶ 32:32 Zico Kolter: OpenAI's Newest Board Member on The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | E1197 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Static video will become obsolete like silent movies within a decade
“You could imagine looking back in a decade and being like, I can't believe people used to watch, you know, static videos at all. Like, it just doesn't make any sense. It's like watching a silent movie. Obviously, videos should be, like, responsive in real time”
Marc Andreessen Jun 19, 2024 ▶ 36:03 Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
NO PRIORS Assertion Partly supported
Alexandr Wang: Cross-modality training produces no positive transfer between video and text.
“I think the main thing, fundamentally, is I think there's very limited generality that we get from these models and even for multimodality, for example my understanding there's no positive transfer from learning in one modality to other modalities. So like tra…”
Alexandr Wang May 22, 2024 ▶ 36:37 No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
Michelakis: Shorting strong companies like Nvidia is trading, not fundamental investing
“On the investment side, I would say buy good companies and short bad companies. It's so, so, so simple. And the number of people that tell me they're going to shorten video or have it short in video, I'm just giving you a recent example. I've probably heard th…”
George Mikulakis Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 51:11 George Michelakis – Chess Master's Approach to Long-Short Equity at Gladstone (EP.362)
Scott: Phone calls provide better feedback signal than video calls
“There's a lot of evidence coming out of University of Chicago and probably other places, but that's the article I've read it, that we, there's more noise than signal in facial expressions and body language, especially if somebody is just a little Square on a c…”
Kim Scott Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 17:30 Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
SAASTR Insight
Thomas: Video is highly efficient for encoding knowledge but inefficient for decoding
“Video is very efficient from an encoding perspective, but inefficient from a decoding perspective for the person receiving”
Joe Thomas Jun 23, 2023 ▶ 37:30 From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
James Ski: Video Builds Trust Because It Requires More Effort
“Video really is the key medium when you're trying to build trust online, and why is it a competitive advantage? It's a competitive advantage because it takes effort, and it requires you to focus and concentrate more so than writing a text post or just uploadin…”
James Ski Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 5:00 Why Tiktok is the Best Marketing Channel for Bootstrapped Startups in 2023
a16z Insight
Connie Chan: Video integration gives marketplace buyers higher conviction and delight
“Video is starting to disrupt marketplaces in a really interesting way, whether it's short video, prerecorded video, live video, they all bring nuances and flavors to marketplaces that ultimately give buyers more conviction in what they're buying and more joy a…”
Connie Chan Mar 23, 2023 ▶ 10:30 The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
NEON SHOW Insight
Ganesan: Capturing attention requires companies to operate like media companies
“I strongly believe that if you want to capture an audience's attention, you need to behave like a media company in a lot of ways. You need to create amazing content for that community, and often that means investing in video.”
Srikrishnan Ganesan Mar 13, 2023 ▶ 33:04 Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Held up
Evans: Generative AI will expand to video and precise creative workflows
“It's probably, I feel like there's a whole second wave of what you can do with this stuff. And it will get to video, and it will get much more specific and precise and controllable, and it will answer a lot of sort of make me 20 options of X and Y and Z that h…”
Benedict Evans Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 33:41 Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
Frasier: Major audio players struggle with Twitter engagement, making video essential
“If you look at some of the larger audio kind of Players in this space. They all suck at like audio engagement on Twitter and all these. Rarely do you see, you know, really taking off video is the best way to go.”
Anthony Frasier Nov 25, 2021 ▶ 21:34 How Do You Build Wakanda in Someone's Ears
Frasier: Short promotional videos must provide standalone value like supermarket samples
“Social media is a big ass supermarket and people have their tables out. You have to make sure, like, I have to taste it, and it has to be like, oh, this is great. Let me go into the aisle and go buy a full box of this. That's what your videos are, is literally…”
Anthony Frasier Nov 25, 2021 ▶ 26:31 How Do You Build Wakanda in Someone's Ears
Frasier: High production value creates friction that makes creators quit video
“I think when you try to make a production, that's when you'll go wrong. Don't try to make a full on production. Literally look at the camera with the headphones on, with the mic, the same way you're looking at me right now. Record the video and upload it As is…”
Anthony Frasier Nov 25, 2021 ▶ 27:10 How Do You Build Wakanda in Someone's Ears
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nuseir Yassin Predicts 60% of LinkedIn's Feed Will Become Video Within Months
“My chat with the LinkedIn leadership basically made me realize that in the next few months, 60% of the news feed will most likely become video.”
Nas Daily (Nuseir Yassin) Nov 4, 2021 ▶ 8:56 Nas Daily, Sarati, and Caspar Lee On Building A Social Media Following
Sokhenko: Gen Z Prefers Video Support Over Reading FAQ Articles
“And I would say yes about Gen Z because they have really short span of attention or focusing on something. So it becomes like really hard. And I would most likely to watch a video about it, right? Somebody Explaining it to me than just reading and searching fo…”
Katerina Sokhenko Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 15:59 Gen Z Spotted Your Fake Values Before You Finished the Post
20VC What-if
Deeter Expected Video to Overtake Voice and SMS Much Faster
“I certainly have expected video to take off faster than it did. As you think about the Twilio product set, for instance, and all of the channels that we've entered now, I would have thought that voice and SMS would have plateaued earlier, and that video would …”
Byron Deeter May 27, 2021 ▶ 15:02 20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
Best: Consumers pay for online courses but not standalone videos
“People won't pay for videos, but they'll pay for online courses, which are just like a couple of videos.”
Chris Best May 15, 2019 ▶ 26:16 Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
Brownlee: VR works great for gaming but is puzzling for video production
“It's awesome for games. I love it for games. I love it for other stuff, but for video, it's been sort of a head scratcher.”
Marques Brownlee Mar 21, 2019 ▶ 20:41 Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
a16z Insight
Chan: Long-tail educational content doesn't always suit video
“A lot of long-tail expertise doesn't always naturally suit video.”
Connie Chan Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 12:24 What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alex Le: Native video uploads unlocked content creation from Reddit lurkers
“The most incredible thing we've found is people who are not posting any content at all were willing to do video. There's this amazing low barrier to entry that we have now with video and the consumer landscape where everyone just feels like they can do it, I t…”
Alex Le Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:13 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Mayo: Audio adoption is slower than video, but retention is far stronger
“Audio is a product that people, once they adopt it, they don't leave it, but the initial adoption isn't as quick as You know, a YouTube video or something like that, but once you get someone, audio builds a really strong habit, as you probably know with your a…”
Will Mayo Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 15:23 EP 461: $2m Raised, SpokenLayer Turning Blogs Into Audio Content with CEO Will Mayo
MAD Insight
Frame-by-frame video analysis discards critical temporal motion data
“The naive approach to generalizing the video is to analyze videos as just a frame by frame sequence of photos. But there's so much encoded in the motion information in a video that to just do that actually just throws all of it out.”
David Luan May 28, 2015 ▶ 13:02 David Luan, Dextro // Real-World Video Understanding (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)

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