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While most of crypto focuses on the realms of finance and art, Mad Realities tackles Hollywood head-on. Today’s power structures concentrate power at the top—in a handful of studio executives in LA and NYC skyscrapers. UGC has begun to change this, but UGC is lacking great monetization; most of the pie is hoovered up by the platforms.
Rex Woodbury • Mad Realities and the Rise of User-Owned Content
Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the rise of the modern cable-TV business
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Kirby Ferguson
@kirbyferguson
I’m a filmmaker, writer, speaker, educator, and consultant. Best known for the video series Everything is a Remix. As seen on The New York Times and Bloomberg.
Steve Jobs explains that every new medium initially copies the last medium, but then we figure out what it’s much better at. This happened from radio to TV, mainframe to PC, and PC to mobile. The same will happen in AI as it changes how we use software. https://t.co/yf8x3pEZUU
Aaron Leviex.com• 55 million global downloads and stream (May, 2020)
Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis
Substack sits on top of a trend that’s very dear to me: the democratization of monetized information. In simple terms, writers can earn money by sharing valuable information without the dependency on a publisher or newspaper. That’s not just better for creators but also for consumers because they can have a direct relationship with each other.
Kevin Indig • Why I left Substack and the Email renaissance
Matthew S. Schwartz
@schwartz
About 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea.
The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%.
For example:
> Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming pr... See more
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