Adi Sideman
Founder & CEO, Popcorn. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Adi Sideman is the founder and CEO of Popcorn and previously founded the interactive live-streaming platform YouNow and Props. He also founded interactive media firm Oddcast and co-founded KSolo and TargetSpot.
1shows
1appearances
15statements
9resolved
3supported
2contradicted
33%fully supported
3said about them ↓ Everything Adi Sideman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sideman: YouTube removed hundreds of thousands of Syrian war documentation videos
“I'll give you an example that happened this month. YouTube decided to take down hundreds of thousands of videos that documented the war in Syria.”
Sideman: Apple and Google are the biggest barrier to crypto adoption
“It's the incumbents who control the centralized distribution channels today, like Apple and Google.”
Sideman: Apple ended its 30% cut on peer-to-peer user currency transfers
“Apple just changed their guidelines last month, so they don't take their 30% cut when a user passes currency to another user, and that's a big deal, and it was in reaction to feedback from consumers who want to do micropayments, and, you know, with cryptocurre…”
Sideman: Centralized platforms capture billions while creators get almost no value
“And then, you know, the second thing is there's a very disproportionate allocation of the value generated from these digital media networks. The internet started with this beautiful promise of a level playing field, but it ends up with what's happening is that…”
Sideman: Props will launch a tokenized creator economy later in 2017
“We're launching a decentralized, tokenized economy later this year where creators, whether they're independent like you or MTV or America's Got Talent, both of which are on our service today, will be rewarded with token.”
Sideman: Apple's restrictive app review process is unsustainable
“I think that slowly but surely, they're going to be moving towards enabling more and more openness. You know, the fact that Apple still reviews every update by Every line of code is just horrendous in terms of facilitating development, and it's not sustainable…”
Sideman: Props ecosystem will fully decentralize within 2.5 years
“Yeah, so there is a timeline, and we map it out in the white paper, and it's over the next two and a half years.”
Sideman: YouNow was the largest US mobile live streaming platform in 2015
“So I started YouNow, which became the largest mobile live streaming in the U.S. In 2015”
Sideman: Gaming industry reached $100B annually, double Hollywood's size
“And, you know, that's why the gaming industry bypassed Hollywood in size. It's around a hundred billion a year versus Hollywood at less than 50.”
Sideman: YouNow creators earn five figures monthly from user micropayments
“We have creators earning five figures per month for micropayments, so it's a really powerful engagement tool, especially for a creator like yourself who engages the audience by definition, and that audience wants to support you.”
Sideman: Two-sided markets derive high value from decentralization, unlike all businesses
“You know, I tend to think of two-sided markets as being prone to having great value in decentralization, and I'm lucky to be working within that space and can benefit from these amazing opportunities to allow others to participate in this ecosystem, but I'm no…”
Sideman: YouNow takes a 40% commission on platform transactions
“We take a 40% commission on our transactions, and we are changing that.”
Sideman: YouNow is shifting business model from transaction fees to token alignment
“Our whole business model changes from taxing transactions of our users to being completely aligned with our users and growing the size of the network.”
Sideman: Interactive video generates $0.50 per user hour versus $0.07 for TV
“Mary Meeker came out with a report a few months ago that talked about revenue per user per hour, and in interactive video environments like live streaming and gaming, it's 50 cents per user per hour, and on TV and radio, which are mostly ad-based It's less tha…”
The other half of the tape: Adi Sideman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 2 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Statements about Adi Sideman, by other people (1)
Stebbings: YouNow reaches 100M monthly user sessions and 50k daily live hours
“Since founding the company in 2011, Addy has grown YouNow to be a global social network with more than a hundred million user sessions a month, and creators now producing more than 50,000 hours of original live content each day.”
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2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Popcorn | 1 | 15 | 33% 3/9 | full record on 20VC → |