YouTube
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14 statements across 12 episodes · 3 bullish · 7 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Sep 16, 2021 by Sean Weisbrot · said 187 times in 66 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (115), Ryan Davis (12), Todd Agobin (8), Sarah Raymond (5), Mark Beneke (5), Justin Rankin (4), Cody Bramlett (3), Carl Shallowhorn (3)
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2025 78 mentions in 17 episodes 5 per episode
- Stanford Found More Brand Notes Made the Content Perform Worse
- Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
- Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why
- Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
- Licensing Revenue Dropped Tenfold in 15 Years. Now What?
- Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not a Profile. It Is a Landing Page.
- Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
- Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Backing Up to an Earlier Solution Changed Everything for Sean
- Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire
- He Lost 76% of His Traffic and Refused to Let a Single Person Go
- What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
- He Said No Once and They Tripled the Offer
- 120,000 People Used His Site for Free - He Had No Idea
- 200 Episodes In and I Still Had No Idea What the Podcast Was For
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 28 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- Knowledge Without Implementation Is Just Entertainment
- Turn Your Self Audio Down and Watch Everything Change
- People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
- 3,000 Client Q&As Fed Into One Bot That Answers Like Him
- His Six-Month Relationship Contract Actually Works
- Doctors Said She'd Never Have Kids. Diet Changed That.
- Every PE Investor Says the Same Thing When Asked Their Biggest Regret
- He Built Chameleon Collective Because He Was Angry
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 38 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- 35% Calmer in 20 Minutes: Why VR Beat the Top Meditation App
- Psilocybin Made a Purely Logical Man Say I Love You to His Brother
- Her Fans Looked Male On Instagram But Her Shopee Data Said Otherwise
- He Made $5 Profit Per Customer and Called It Printing Money
- Taught to Survive, Never to Get Ahead: A Poverty Cycle 100 Years in the Making
- 2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One
- Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- How Do You Build Wakanda in Someone's Ears
- Why Credit Cards Took 35 Years — And Crypto Won't
- 36 Years Sober: Why Addiction Is Still Inside My Brain
- 600 Employees Later, He Still Creates Roles for the Right Person
- 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
- Why 80% of Purchase Decisions Are Built on Emotion, Not Logic
- The Hidden 95%: Why the EU Is Still an Untapped Market
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about YouTube, oldest first
Sep 16, 2021 neutral
Nov 25, 2021 negative
Frasier: Social algorithms penalize accounts and posts that include outbound links
“Anytime you're encouraging people to leave the algorithms for social media will start to punish your account. This is something people don't talk about. So YouTube, for instance, when you create a YouTube video in the description, the first thing that you say …”
Feb 2, 2022
Aug 2, 2022 negative
Bimani: Formal education is not important compared to self-taught knowledge
“Formal education is not important. Knowledge is right. You can go to a four year degree and still come out dumb as a rocks, or you can learn on Google or in YouTube. Like I have reading books and know everything you need to know to get ahead.”
Nov 23, 2022 neutral
Cross-Platform Social Analytics Fail for Asian Creators Compared to North America
“If you told me that we're working with a North American content creator who has statistics on, let's say Twitch on Twitter and YouTube. I think, yeah, that's should be collated because all of those three platforms can be directly linked together to look at cer…”
Feb 13, 2024 negative
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Jun 17, 2025 neutral
Jul 25, 2025 negative
Weldon: Creators oversimplify AI agent deployment to sell courses
“These YouTuber are mostly Instagram. Actually, Instagram is amazing for these things. They're just promoting their stuff to sell their program, to get you, to make you feel like it's simple to do and to build an alpha, super simple, make it work in your busine…”
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Agobin: Website SEO and YouTube compound value unlike transient social platforms
“So there's certain things and it's like SEO on your website and YouTube. Are the two biggest things that pop out as kind of this evergreen content. And if you think about it as profit per minute, every minute you put into doing amazing YouTube content or amazi…”
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Weisbrot: Short horizontal clips grow organic audiences faster than full interviews
“What I realized was I can grow the audience much faster organically if I have these, because if somebody doesn't know who I am, but they're being fed a three minute video, they're much more likely to watch that three minute video than that 30 minute interview.”
Jan 13, 2026 bullish
Jan 13, 2026 negative
Mar 24, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: YouTube Shorts Outperform Mid-Length Videos but Fail to Convert Subscribers
“With shorts on YouTube, it'll get like, Sometimes 5000 or 10,000 views, but on average it's like 500 to 2000 for a short. But then like the three to five minute content is like a 102 hundred views, maybe 300 views. So the shorts perform much better than the mi…”