Viral Video
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Viral Video, every show
Andreessen: Highly effective viral videos omit context by starting halfway through events
“All of the really effective viral videos basically since then, including the ones that have been really important over the course of the last decade, they've all had that characteristic. They all start halfway through the event. So you don't see the run-up.”
Dubin: Do not believe anyone who claims they can guarantee viral videos
“Anybody that tells you that they can build you a viral video or don't believe them”
Neistat: Engineering Viral Videos Is Completely Beyond Anyone's Control
“Those things, by the way, are like fucking moons aligning with Pluto, like they are the greatest anomaly, and if I knew how to prescribe them, that's all I'd do, but they are way outside of anyone's person's control, and that's why I reject sort of the term of…”