CNN
7 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 10, 2016 by Suroosh Alvi · said 70 times in 37 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2016 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about CNN, oldest first
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 17, 2016
Airbnb had about 100 paid bookings during the 2008 DNC launch
“Well we did a live interview with CNN from our living room, and we had about a hundred people actually book and pay with a credit card through our service, which, this was like the first sign of a working, viable marketplace, even to the point where we were ge…”
Dec 14, 2017 negative
Bob Johnson: CBS Could Have Launched 24-Hour Cable News Before CNN
“CBS with the Walter Cronkite, the brand as a father of news, could have launched on cable a CBS news network instead of letting Ted do it, but they saw themselves as a thirty-minute Six p.m. Period of news. They just didn't see news as a 24 hour audience produ…”
Mar 2, 2020 positive
Neistat: Beme acquisition financially secured his family's future
“Probably. Yeah, I think that if we didn't live in New York City or Los Angeles, that, that'd probably be the case. I can tell you that in the terms that I think of, which is, can I now give my children the lifestyle that I've always wanted to give them? The an…”
Mar 2, 2020 negative
Casey Neistat: CNN shut Beme down due to lack of rapid growth
“If you look at a company like that, and this is my understanding, if you look at a company like that, they need to see real growth. They need to see a real trajectory for success, and they need to see it fast, and I think that, I don't think we were able to de…”
Mar 2, 2020
Neistat considers himself excellent at initial project launches, not long-term execution
“I'm really good at being the second man in a bobsled team, which means I get really excited, and I can push really, really, really hard, but the second it launches out of the gates, I just sort of jump in, and I'm like, okay, what now?”