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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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”