entertainment
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about entertainment, oldest first
Nov 17, 2023 bearish
Lessin: AI bot content will commoditize entertainment, shifting value to communities
“The bots And that content wipes out all the entertainment stuff. Like that's just going to be noise. And like, it's a, maybe it's an acquisition strategy, but it's not a business. All the business has to be on that. What's capital rich. And I think that will b…”
May 31, 2024 neutral
Sam Lessin says internet economics optimize for entertainment over information
“The reality is the economics and the incentive of the internet are as an entertainment machine, right? And that's actually what we've been able to instrument and optimize. That's what the incentive structure works like that.”
Jun 20, 2025 bearish
Sam Lessin: Dopamine-driven entertainment businesses face a losing war for attention
“One, I'm very short entertainment, because that's just a complete war of entertainment, right? Like dopamine hits is a war of entertainment. You're gonna lose. There's always gonna be someone else competing for the attention and be bigger, faster, and better.”