Curious about Tech, philosophy, science, psychology, huge sports fan and always learning. business builder in ML, tech, media.x-Disney+Hotstar,Google, McKinsey
The experience in streaming sports on The ESPN app and how it casts onto TV is so BAD. I've never been able to watching something uninterrupted due some technical glitch for more than 5 mins. Please fix it @espnapp
@baboonzero I agree with you Anshu. the world has changed..you need to have two spikes..people leadership + something else(i.e domain expertise) to be a good manager/leader..just being good at one reduces the probability of success..
As startups grow there is extremely strong pull into what I call the death spiral of bullshit.
More people -> more teams -> more buy-in required -> more meetings -> being persuasive rewarded more than building -> builders leave -> nothing gets done
Buzzfeed raised a total of ~$700M on its way to going public and did $398M in revenue in 2021.
Its current market cap is ~$240M.
Media is a brutal business.