YouTube

7 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2021 by Jordi Visser · said 84 times in 45 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Everything said about YouTube, oldest first

Nov 8, 2021 positive
Insight
Visser: Smartphones and YouTube foster Gen Z polymaths over specialists
“Well, the iPhone is letting you learn a lot of different things the way polymaths did. If you look up multi-potentiality, the Gen Zers that are like polymaths, they're doing different things in the school system. They are learning through YouTube.”
Jordi Visser Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 48:28 Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
Nov 8, 2021 negative
Opinion
Visser: Reading books is a waste of time compared to web surfing
“I no longer think books are a good use of time in any way, shape or form. They're a waste of time, but they have a content, but you're not going to consume as much content with a book as you will with surfing, 20 different web pages on the same topic where you…”
Jordi Visser Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 15:36 Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
Jan 3, 2022 positive
Insight
Gilbert: Low-view YouTube talks by executives contain insights the press misses
“And the other fun hack is there's these criminally Under viewed YouTube videos, which is executives whose names you know and executives whose name you don't know giving industry talks at conferences, and these end up on YouTube because they're giving out publi…”
Ben Gilbert Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 15:23 David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
Jan 31, 2022 positive
Insight
Hamed: YouTube beats Instagram by sharing programmatic ad revenue with creators
“YouTube content is good because YouTubers make money. They use that money to reinvest in production. And you have people like Mr. Beast producing incredible stuff. Instagram is so hard to make money on because Instagram doesn't roll out programmatic ads at sca…”
Ali Hamed Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 34:54 Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
Jun 23, 2022 negative
Opinion
Web2 creators are held hostage by the distribution platforms they rely on
“I just think this is one of the big broken pieces of the internet today, is that YouTubers who make their entire career on YouTube don't like YouTube. They have a bad relationship with YouTube. People on Instagram who make their whole career posting on Instagr…”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jun 23, 2022 ▶ 33:43 Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
Apr 15, 2024
Insight
Dixon: Internet Platforms Scale via "Come for Tool, Stay for Network"
“That's an old internet strategy that I call come for the tool, stay for the network.”
Chris Dixon Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 16:46 Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
May 27, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Google tried to acquire early Reddit for a YouTube commenting system
“It actually made us an acquisition offer. It was like an acqui-hire type thing, and Google wanted to roll Reddit into YouTube, and they were gonna make us this sort of YouTube commenting system.”
Alexis Ohanian May 27, 2024 ▶ 17:57 Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
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