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Insight
Hays: Media is a barbell favoring tech platforms and solo creators
“Media is now a barbell. You're going to do great if you're a platform, a Spotify, a YouTube Netflix, et cetera. And you're going to do great if you're a personality individual, low, low, you're just like Joe Rogan, you're creating content. But if you're in the…”
Jordi Hays Feb 15, 2026 ▶ 17:04 Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gross: Niche video creators are building $100M subscription businesses
“I meet with these folks all the time and they are building a hundred million dollar businesses, selling subscriptions to whatever specialty content that they have.”
Adam Gross Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 6:07 What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross
Assertion Supported
Gross: Vimeo generates 250 million video player impressions monthly
“We're the second largest video player after YouTube. We're doing about a quarter billion impressions of the video player a month.”
Adam Gross Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 5:00 What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thomas: Loom links expand into inline playable videos across 2,000 platforms
“When you paste a Loom link, there's 2000 platforms in the world that expanded into Loom video in line, because we replicated the YouTube model, where it's like, you don't always want to click a YouTube link to go to YouTube to watch it, you just want to watch …”
Joe Thomas Jun 23, 2023 ▶ 42:29 From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
Disclosure
Atlassian decided early to optimize for one-to-many engagement across operations
“The reality is the way we made a decision very early on is, you know, we're going to try and optimize for one to many, everything Atlassian does. So instead of doing a demo for just one client, Let's do a demo, record it, post it on YouTube so everyone can see…”
Cameron Deatsch Mar 7, 2023 ▶ 7:36 How The Biggest Product-Led Enterprise Company In The World Did It | Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nottebohm: Creator August Bradley made $200k from a Notion masterclass
“He had six followers on YouTube when we first met him. He now has 42,000 followers on YouTube, and he just sold out a master class on Notion and has so far made 200,000 dollars just on that two-week course.”
Olivia Nottebohm Oct 20, 2021 ▶ 13:35 How Community-Led Growth Drives Product-Led Growth with Notion CRO, Olivia Nottebohm
Assertion Contradicted
Butterfield: Flickr was acquired months before YouTube was founded
“Flickr was already acquired maybe, like, eight months or something like that before YouTube was even founded.”
Stewart Butterfield Apr 28, 2020 ▶ 1:55 Taking Care Of Your Team and Your Customers with Slack | SaaStr Software Community
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