Hollywood

10 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 3, 2024 by John Coogan · said 135 times in 67 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by John Coogan (48), Jordi Hays (19), Thomas Laffont (2), Teddy Warner (2), Delian Asparouhov (2), Ben Thompson (2), Alexis Ohanian (2), Samuel Hammond (1)

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2026 73 mentions in 35 episodes 2 per episode
2025 55 mentions in 27 episodes 2 per episode
2024 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode

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Everything said about Hollywood, oldest first

Nov 3, 2024
Insight
Coogan: Hollywood operates like VC because art cannot be engineered for perfection
“Hollywood is almost more like venture capital, where there's going to be some dogs, even the best, and you can't have everything be guaranteed because it's art, not engineering.”
John Coogan Nov 3, 2024 ▶ 51:25 The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
Jan 8, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hays: Hollywood is doomed unless they build proprietary generative AI tools
“If Hollywood is not creating their own Like proprietary tools. To generate content. They're fucked.”
Jordi Hays Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 57:13 How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
Apr 6, 2025 negative
Insight
Valenzuela: Unsustainable Hollywood budgets force safe franchise bets over indie stories
“The budgets have, like, skyrocket to the point it's unsustainable, like, I mean, to your point, like, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to make something, and then if you need to make something, you're gonna bet for the thing that the safe…”
Cristóbal Valenzuela Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 6:50 Cristóbal Valenzuela (Runway) Talks About The Future of Media and Hollywood
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Insight
Coogan: Hollywood, Like Venture Capital, Requires Embracing Massive Flops
“The nature of the, of Hollywood is like venture capital. Like it is a hits driven business. If you don't accept that you're going to have massive flops and egg on your face and embarrassing moments, you will not make it.”
John Coogan Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 38:56 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: Future entertainment is AI-generated; live sports are uniquely resilient
“The future of Hollywood, the entertainment industry, the music industry is going to be largely AI generated or assisted. The appointment television, aside from live, you know, breaking tech and business news sport is like guaranteed. And the celebrity of being…”
Alexis Ohanian Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 15:14 Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
Jan 30, 2026 positive
Opinion
Coogan: Polished AI film pitches will resonate far better than scripts
“You have to imagine that even if you want to use a more traditional process and go through the traditional Hollywood pipeline, showing up to a pitch meeting at an agency With a pretty much polished AI version of your film is going to resonate in a way that a s…”
John Coogan Jan 30, 2026 ▶ 27:28 Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Insight
McConaughey: Moral Pleas Against AI Will Fail Due to Productivity and Profit
“It may be for you, but it's not going to be enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that no, this is wrong. It's not gonna last. There's too much money to be made, and there's, it's too productive.”
Matthew McConaughey Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 21:18 Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Extreme AI Disruption Is on a 10-Year Timeline, Not 1-2 Years
“And maybe that's possible, but I have a feeling that it's just like, it's not a year away. It's not Two years away. It's a little bit farther, still on the 10 year camp, still on the Kurzweil timelines.”
John Coogan Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 5:42 Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
Feb 25, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: AI-generated Hollywood films are ten years away, not one or two
“And maybe that's possible, but I have a feeling that it's just like, it's not a year away, it's not two years away, it's a little bit farther, still on the ten-year camp, still on the Kurzweil timelines”
John Coogan Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 6:32 What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
Apr 28, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Next phase of Hollywood AI will be tool-driven VFX.
“And so, the business case for AI video is still a little bit more narrow, and I think it will be Tucked in the tool section. I was yeah, looking a lot at, like, the Aflac project that he sold to Netflix, and some of the background replacements, some of the VFX…”
John Coogan Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 14:41 In-Car Surveillance is Coming | Diet TBPN
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