Toni Cowan-Brown
Founder, Not Another Media Company. On 1 show, 99 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Toni Cowan-Brown is a commentator exploring the intersections of technology, politics, internet culture, and motorsport, best known for co-hosting Another Podcast alongside Benedict Evans. Prior to founding platforms like Sunday Fangirls, she worked in European policy and was a tech executive at NationBuilder.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Toni Cowan-Brown said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brown: Silicon Valley is building incredible AI capabilities that nobody needs
“And maybe this is the first time that the disconnect is just so obvious that we have this insane capability of building these things that are incredible and yet no one actually needs it right now.”
Brown: Uber expanded abroad by ignoring local regulations, causing severe backlash
“And it was just so interesting to see the complete lack of understanding of the policies and the regulations, whether it was in Europe, Saudi Arabia, you name it. And they were just like, we're just going to do it the American way and it will stick. And you're…”
Cameron Brown: Enterprise Clients Won't Pay $100M for Software Without Human Consultancy
“No one's going to pay a hundred million dollars just for the technology that you can buy off the shelf. They need to understand how they can map this to the needs that they have.”
Catton-Brown: Putting US Formula One rights behind a paywall is a mistake
“And I think, in my opinion, I think it's a terrible, terrible mistake to put the US rights of Formula One behind, behind a paywall. Now is absolutely not the time, I think.”
Catton-Brown: Formula One will not secure its initial asking price for rights
“F-One is definitely not going to get the initial price set that they want. ESPN is definitely not, sounds like they're not going to fight for it.”
Catton-Brown: Sports copying F1's Netflix boom ignore the pandemic's role
“All of these other sports are trying to recreate this magical Netflix strive to survive moment. But they seem to omit the fact that we had a pandemic. Everyone was stuck at home. Everyone was dying for content. The first season of Drive to Survive was actually…”
Catton-Brown: Modern sports fans consume social highlights instead of full live events
“The reality is very few people today are sitting down and watching a full match, a full football match, a full F one race, but Bizarrely, they're consuming four to six hours a day of highlights and reels and social commentary and guides, whatever it is, but th…”
Catton-Brown: All 10 Formula 1 teams recently became profitable
“In the last two or three years only, have all of the teams, for the first time in the history of Formula One, have the 10 teams across the grid been profitable. For 70 plus years, these teams were operating at a loss.”
Catton-Brown: Two or three current F1 drivers are pay drivers
“There's two or three drivers on the grid right now who are definitely there because of the money that they're bringing to the table. 100%.”
Catton-Brown: F1 Journalists Avoid Heavy Criticism to Protect Access
“There is something very Unique and bizarre in formula one that the journalists are very rarely, very skeptical of formula one or will never say anything too heavy about formula one for fear of losing their credentials.”
Brown: TikTok Gives Americans a Taste of Foreign Tech Dominance
“Saying that, like, basically Americans are experiencing what the rest of Europe has experienced over the last 10 years of, yeah, your citizens are loving a piece, a social media app that wasn't designed by Americans for Americans with Americans in mind.
yeah,…”
Caron-Brown: Visual AI will evolve faster than text AI
“We're probably going to see way more and faster evolution with the visual stuff than we are with the written.”
Cowan-Brown: Most creators view TikTok as an intermediate stepping stone to YouTube.
“Most people are creating short form content on TikTok, but that doesn't feel like the end goal. It feels like the end goal is then moving to YouTube or moving somewhere else. Whereas I can see more YouTubers being like Marques Brownlee or Mr. Beast was like, n…”
Cowan-Brown: Adobe does not intentionally listen to its customers like Figma
“Adobe isn't, I think, right up there as one of those companies that you know, intentionally listens to their customers, but also they're much bigger than Figma.”
Cameron: Many EU regulators have never written code or built software
“One of the reasons when I started my career in the European Commission and I left very quickly is that it all felt, I'm working with some of the smartest people, but it all felt very theoretical. And it was obvious that a lot of these people writing these legi…”
Cameron: Regulating data movement matters more than physical storage locations
“Can we stop talking about localization of data and where the data is stored? And can we talk about the movement and the process of how you get that data flow from one country to another? That's a way more complicated and layered conversation, but it's a way mo…”
Hybrid work models generally never succeed for companies in practice
“I think so many companies are, we're gonna sit and wait and see and do a hybrid model, and that hybrid model generally never works”
Caron-Brown: Removing platform middlemen forces creators to handle audience recruitment
“If you take that middleman approach away, You're then responsible for recruiting all of these people, which means that it's taking away from you just creating content.”
Brown: Most DTC brands sell uninnovative products identical to existing shelf goods
“Most of them, basically what I'm saying, are not coming up with innovative products. The product is exactly the same as what we've been seeing on shelves for years.”
Brown: Mandating data stay in one geographic location is insane
“That is insane to try in this day and age, to try and say that data should stay in one location.”
Cowan-Brown: Shein turns around fashion production in two to three days
“Unlike Zara or Asus, and most people have gotten familiar with their e-commerce model and being able to turn things around in two or three weeks. Shein is turning things around in two or three days, which is absolutely insane.”
Cowan-Brown: Most ad buyers do not know where their ads actually run
“Most of the people responsible for ad spending have actually no idea how their ads are actually running, where they're using, where they're running, sorry. And if they're being, if they're actually performing”
Cowan-Brown: Hybrid conference models generally never work
“Because the hybrid model generally never works because it's just a weird experience for people of there's someone on stage, now there's someone on screen, and it has to be done extremely well.”
Cowan-Brown: In-person dealmaking at conferences will decline drastically due to Zoom
“That idea of this is the moment where we can all be in a room and finalize that deal or get that deal done. I think that's going to shift pretty drastically because I think people have realized that they can actually conduct their business as usual on Zoom cal…”
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| ANOTHER PODCASTLEDGER | Founder, Not Another Media Companyhost | 99 | 102 | 80% 28/35 | full record on Another Podcast → |