YouTube

“Apparently Google I think on YouTube with sports and the NFL, they're basically, like, have these little rings that show up underneath the athletes as they move into position before the play starts, and the AI is actually predicting who's going to rush the qua…”

“There's 7000 people, 7100 people working at YouTube.”

“They must be hiding a bunch of headcount, like in other places, like in the ads teams or things like that off the books.”

“10 years ago, if you weren't one of those people at the top, you really couldn't. There was no middle class. And we're seeing now a middle class of celebrity, of influencer, of creator.”

“I was extremely naive to the fame aspect of it. Like there is no fame, like YouTube fame, like internet fame.”

“We were the biggest comedy brand in the world on YouTube and stuff, and we tried to appeal to everybody, and we had a big audience, but like, we weren't as profitable as they are now.”

“My kids don't differentiate what source the content's coming from. To them, there's no distinction between Disney+, YouTube, and Netflix.”

“But this is gonna be the next, like, YouTuber kind of thing.”

“What I'm arguing for is that people do not build only for Instagram. I think you've got a lot of people that are out there building only for Instagram, only for TikTok, only for YouTube, whatever. Just like an investor would never invest in a single stock. You…”

“The YouTube creator tools are really good. And they, the feeling that you have being a creator on YouTube is vastly superior to the other platforms.”

“YouTube is a nefarious part of this equation that almost no one ever talks about. It's like a, it's a huge part of kids' screen time.”

“That can't possibly matter. So that's the thing about a company like YouTube. There's absolutely no way. There's some junior, junior product manager who's trying to get promoted. Who's like, this will be revenue. He's like, that will be five dollars of revenue…”

“YouTube is the sleeper everything of the internet, I'm convinced.”

“Basically you get like three hype credits every, I don't know the time limit, like every month or so. And it's like a mega like, so it's not just liking a video, it's a mega like, and the videos that get the most mega likes are now ranked in the algorithm high…”

“You know who's gonna be out there gaming that? It's Mr. Beast.”

“And just to riff on this for one more second, that actually is, I think, one theory of generally product, like social products in general, is that all sorts of features effectively, like there's an inflation rate that exists in social currencies. And so what h…”

“Did you guys see that YouTube within Google's earnings is actually now is a fifty billion dollar revenue generating company, which if you don't count Meta as a media company makes YouTube kind of the number one and Netflix now is, is thirty seven billion at nu…”

“And I just continue to remain fascinated by how a YouTube brand like Dude Perfect, which is one of the top 10 biggest channels globally, can command the adoration and love of young boys in like such a way where they rank it higher than anything they've ever do…”

“According to measurement company Mondo Metrics, Taylor Swift and New Heights reached half a billion views across all of the podcast episode across social media in under 24 hours. Three hundred and seventy nine million on Instagram, sixty one million on X, fift…”

“The subscriber number on YouTube is clearly fake, because I just like, Literally paid 300 bucks.”

“We had a great podcast episode and I can't promote it because we mentioned the DT name.”

“Just to throw it out there, YouTube is a way worse, way more egregious offender.”

“For that two hour time limit, it will be reduced to a one hour daily limit if TikTok, Snap, and YouTube also agree.”

“So I literally now have a pipeline where I ask a question and it fully produces and deploys YouTube videos that are three to seven minutes that are excellent on like any topic I want through to YouTube.”