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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where YouTube comes up
Rodney Comegys – The Mechanics of Indexing at Vanguard (EP.498)
- ▶ 32:09 Rodney Comegys You have an amazing business around YouTube.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 2:17 Ted Seides It turns out that YouTube is the fastest growing channel for listening to podcasts. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:16 Alex Sacerdote Into YouTube.
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 59:10 Matthew Dicks He's got YouTube up trying to learn how to fix things at a 20 years old.
Ted on Alt Goes Mainstream (EP.458)
- ▶ 46:08 Ted Seides Now they're on YouTube or now they're on podcasts.
Bob Oros – RIA Perspective at Hightower (Private Wealth 7, EP.452)
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 8:36 Ted Seides Your folks can supplement their listening on iTunes and watching on YouTube by taking out their reading glasses to peruse our library of around 10,000 pages across 500 transcripts.
Rodrigo Bitar – Overlooked Opportunities in Latin America (EP.442)
- ▶ 6:05 Ted Seides Your folks can supplement their listening on iTunes and watching on YouTube by taking out their reading glasses to peruse our library of around 10,000 pages across 500 transcripts.
Shannon O'Leary – Relationship Capital Investing at St. Paul & Minnesota Foundation (EP.435)
- ▶ 5:27 Ted Seides It turns out that YouTube is the fastest growing channel for listening to podcasts. 4 times in the scene
Anthony Pompliano – Building Influence and Capital to Live an Extraordinary Life (EP.430)
- ▶ 4:36 Ted Seides Pomp's following canvases 1.6 million people on X, 560,000 on YouTube, and 260,000 on his daily The Pomp Letter.
Donald Miller - Building a Story Brand (EP.426)
- ▶ 36:18 Donald Miller So what that means is your emails going out to them, them seeing the occasional social media post, them seeing something on YouTube, them hearing about you at a cocktail party is very important to gain trust over time.
[REPLAY] Ironclad Environmental Services – Chris and Rob Michalik (Kinderhook Industries), (PE Deals, S3E8)
- ▶ 13:52 Chris Michalik You can look it up on YouTube.
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 17:59 Alexis Ohanian 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:04 Alexis Ohanian I look at full-time content creators like Jimmy, my friend Cleo Abrams, she's got a few million on YouTube.
- ▶ 1:07:22 Alexis Ohanian Now I'm going to go down the YouTube rabbit hole to master Austin or Texas style brisket.
Cliff Asness - Simple Investing is Hard (EP.385)
- ▶ 56:11 Cliff Asness I'll go down a YouTube rabbit hole about 70 sitcoms like anyone else for three hours and be very happy I did.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 16:09 Chris Dixon To give you the example of YouTube, when they launched in 2005, you had two ways to host video on your blog. 3 times in the scene
Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
- ▶ 1:17:45 Brad Jacobs Ray Kurzweil, I know very well from his writings and from his YouTubes.
Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- ▶ 51:13 Chad Hutchinson Ed shepherded me, and one of the things he always used to say, and it's actually a really cool speech that's on YouTube, too.
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 39:24 Rick Heitzman You still put it on Zoom, you still put it on YouTube.
Porter Collins and Vincent Daniel - Big Shorts and Big Longs (Capital Allocators, EP.325)
- ▶ 6:09 Ted Seides If you want a little laugh, have a look at their YouTube channel of the episode to see for yourself.
Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- ▶ 20:44 Ted Seides When you're telling these great stories on your YouTube channel, what is the arc of that story?
- ▶ 39:29 Ted Seides You're doing a lot of these now on YouTube.
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 32:00 Hayden Brain But I'll move us on to, uh, another of your most popular episodes, or at least it was on YouTube.
Brent Montgomery – The Disney Flywheel at Wheelhouse (Capital Allocators, EP.265)
- ▶ 25:15 Brent Montgomery Digital stars and YouTube channels. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:19 Brent Montgomery And instead of doing 12:02 TikToks, he does 20 minute YouTube clips.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 40:16 Avichal Garg Look at YouTube and Facebook versus the newspapers or the TV companies.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 7:34 Chris Dixon There was text-based things like Facebook and Twitter, at least Facebook initially, and then YouTube, democratized video.
- ▶ 13:02 Chris Dixon I was talking to someone last night at an event who's a YouTuber, and they said they got a million views, and they made 17 dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:19 Chris Dixon And it was something on the order of five billion dollars last year with a B, which compares to, I think YouTube paid out a total of twenty billion.
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 33:43 Olaf Carlson-Wee 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. 3 times in the scene
Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 16:13 Billy Libby And what they were doing is they were taking data from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, YouTube, Roku, and they were tracking what people are watching online.
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 52:32 Roseanne Wincek We were at the Ace Hotel in New York, and there was a guitar in our room, and I, like, was playing some song for her, like, on YouTube, and I think I played, like, four seconds of it, and then she just started playing it.
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 26:09 Fabrice Grinda Well, the twenty-twenty-one, it's a lot easier than ever before, because you can go to YouTube, you can go to Reddit, and you can go to Substack, and there's, like, infinite amount of variation in anything.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 14:31 David Rosenthal Way around doing the work of doing all the reading, reading every article, watching every YouTube video that founders have done, reading every book, and then this picture starts to emerge of what the story is. 3 times in the scene
Christopher Zook – Thematic Investing and Raving Fans at CAZ Investments (Capital Allocators, EP.226)
- ▶ 37:58 Christopher Zook And if you have not seen the video, go to YouTube and type in Icon three D printed homes and you'll be fascinated.
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 42:21 Richard Tedlow The last time I looked on YouTube, it had been viewed by well over thirty-five million people.
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 15:40 Jordi Visser 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 don't lose interest or watching a YouTube or…
- ▶ 48:42 Jordi Visser They are learning through YouTube. 4 times in the scene
Satya Patel – Homebrew (Manager Meetings, EP.18)
- ▶ 11:43 Satya Patel From our respective roles within Google, Hunter went on to run product for YouTube. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 11:54 Chris Dixon So this modern wave of AI and machine learning started really in 2013 or so with this famous deep learning cat video YouTube thing.
James Clear – Mastering Habits (Capital Allocators, EP.171)
- ▶ 19:43 James Clear The other thing is you should try to spoon feed the reader or the listener in the case of a podcast or the viewer in the case of a YouTube show or whatever.
Ted Seides - Capital Allocators Year in Review (Capital Allocators, EP.170)
- ▶ 6:57 Ted Seides Lastly, we recently started YouTube and Instagram accounts alongside LinkedIn and Twitter to share episodes and quotes across social media.
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Alpha at Clocktower Group (Capital Allocators, EP.161)
- ▶ 52:47 Marko Papic I think my biggest pet peeve, and this happens a lot in these podcasts and, you know, when I do something on YouTube or something, people hear me say something.
Randall Stutman - Admired Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.150)
- ▶ 38:18 unnamed speaker I've trained myself not to be, so it's kind of hard to see it when all of a sudden I'm on a YouTube video.
- ▶ 1:07:52 Randall Stutman First of all, we put out a video that I did around fan-ness that's on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 7:59 Paul Rabil This was early 2000, pre-YouTube, around the turn of the internet age.
- ▶ 20:28 Paul Rabil And then if you have the resources and the creative know-how and the ability to go shoot and edit, YouTube can be an incredibly valuable platform and has been for a lot of millennials and Gen Z's who have 2 times in the scene
Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)
Tom Lydon – ETF Trends (Capital Allocators, EP.56)
It's Not About the Money (Capital Allocators, EP.45)
- ▶ 50:22 Ted Seides My eight-year-old would rather watch repeat videos of things he finds on YouTube than watch television.
Annie Duke - Improving Decision Making [Capital Allocators, EP.39]
- ▶ 47:31 Annie Duke You can actually find it on the clip on YouTube, and he's like,
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 58:27 Chatri Sityodtong I don't know if it's a complete wisdom, but it's pretty brainless in that I'll just go to YouTube