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Media is a terrible business model; creators must monetize through equity
“Media is a pretty shit business model.
And so the trick is to do media to build media is great at a certain a few things, right?
It's great at
Building brand and distribution and awareness and all those things, but it's pretty terrible at monetizing.
And so th…”
Tech workers cannot be contrarian because they consume identical media feeds
“The problem that the tech guys have is you we will all go consume, not necessarily garbage content, but just the same content, right? So we're all on X, We're all reading the same things. We're listening to all in and listen to the same podcast. And then guess…”
Brands only get credit for traits that are weird or controversial
“There's one other in the branding thing that's important is you're only going to get credit for what's weird. You should make a list of what's weird about you or about your brand or that you do. That's unusual. That might even be like controversial. It might e…”
Somewhere.com grew to eight-figure profit post-acquisition
“When we bought that business, it was making millions a year in profit.
So like it was already seven, multiple seven figures of profit and now it's eight figures of profit.”
Shaan Puri predicts Kevin Espiritu's Epic Gardening could reach billion-dollar valuation
“I think that guy, if he does this right, he could build a billion dollar company as a gardening YouTuber, which is fantastic.”
Shaan Puri drafted his entire upcoming book in one night using Claude
“I got a full draft of the book in one night just by going back and forth with Claude.”
Podcasts are merely feedstock for short-form social media clips
“The Andrew tape might've been the first, but you guys are the second to say, Hey, I'm going to create a podcast. And it doesn't, the podcast is nothing. The podcast is just feedstock for the shorts, for the clips. And that, that is a core, core insight that yo…”
Career progression depends on a CEO's internal trust score, not titles
“So the thing I realized was that basically for the CEO, they look at all their employees and there's just a trust score. And the trust score is basically like, can I trust you to be watching out for problems and identifying them yourself, or am I gonna have to…”
Brand positioning is always counter-positioning relative to existing consumer beliefs
“It starts with a very simple principle, which is all positioning is counter positioning. So you gotta, you wanna position yourselves in the consumer's mind, but it's always gonna be relative to what's already in the consumer's mind.”