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“So I really think that that ad model, I'm very concerned for the whole world's creative spirit, especially the Creativity of younger people who've spent their whole lives with YouTube or Instagram or other places like that, other ad-driven platforms as the des…”

“When I listened to your Ethereum episode, it really did change my mind about what Web three is. And I really wasn't aware of any of its merits. I was kind of only aware of the hype and the scams and I'm coming quite strongly around to seeing how important it i…”

“And it's not just Silicon Valley that's guilty of this mentality, but Silicon Valley is doing it better than anybody else right now.”

“A lot of people said how much they liked, how inspiring he was, how compelling he was, how much energy he would bring to a room. And that was really fascinating because that's not always evident when you read articles about him or even when you read Mike's boo…”

“And when you've got a system that mandates exponential economic growth, but you've got a finite planet, it's by definition unsustainable. So we're definitely heading for a catastrophe unless we change the way the system works and no longer require it to be gro…”

“Whereas, I know me personally, if I spend 20 minutes scrolling through Twitter, I come out of the end of that experience just feeling worse, worse about myself, worse about the world. I do feel all the more compelled to look at Twitter again, because it's very…”

“Today's dominant platforms, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, they don't really offer a path for folks like that. Folks like that feel like, oh, I'm embarrassed. I'm not going to post my thing on Instagram. Like, no one's going to like it.”

“The challenge of acting isn't, for me, is not making things up or playing pretend. It's actually having to do that while straddling a hornet's nest of logistical nightmares all day long, because a movie set is just a mess. Even the most well-run sets, and this…”

“Using the internet to collaborate, to make something together with other people that you might not have been able to make on your own. That was sincerely new behavior that was only made possible by this new technology.”

“Over 700,000 registered users now. We've never paid a single dollar to buy traffic or registrations or downloads or anything like that.”

“There is that analytical component, but there's also the emotional component, and even though it seems like everybody in Silicon Valley says that data is the most important thing, what I found in my brief time in this world is, yeah, data is important, and tha…”

“If your goal in a creative process is to get attention, you're never going to be satisfied. It's Always going to be a hollow and an anxiety-laden experience.”

“Our target with HitRecord is not people who are trying to break into the creative industry or people who are aspiring to, it's really not that. It's any, Human being with the urge to be creative, which I think is in many ways, any and all human beings.”

“We've paid out different contributing artists. We're almost at three million dollars now. It's like 2.9 now.”