Hollywood
4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 5, 2022 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 49 times in 28 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shane Parrish (13), Elad Gil (4), Balaji Srinivasan (4), Todd Herman (3), Robert Greene (3), Michael Ovitz (3), Dr. Sue Johnson (2), Brian Koppelman (2)
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2026 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- Barry Diller: Building IAC
- The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
- Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2022 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Hollywood, oldest first
Apr 5, 2022 negative
Srinivasan: Pre-internet free speech was constrained by a media oligopoly
“Distribution was so scarce that he had to kill for the distribution. Like that publication was so scarce that he felt that he had to kill somebody. So what that meant is there wasn't truly free speech. There were, there's a small oligopoly of a few dozen folks…”
Sep 30, 2025 negative
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Ovitz: Hollywood was built for single people to socialize 365 nights yearly
“I always felt that Hollywood was manufactured for people that had no significant others. No children, no home, no family, nothing, except maybe a two-bedroom apartment, because they could go out 365 nights a year and find companionship with others in the same …”
Feb 3, 2026 negative