Fantastic episode.
On Murdoch: "Almost every one of those big initiatives was an act of wild bravery"
"If you put your head down, if you're constantly correcting, you'll get almost everything right. Unless you run out of capital."
On Murdoch: "Almost every one of those big initiatives was an act of wild bravery"
"If you put your head down, if you're constantly correcting, you'll get almost everything right. Unless you run out of capital."
https://twitter.com/patrick_oshag/status/1491035545002151937
"The broadcast networks were surviving on stuff that was inoffensive to the largest number of people. What's happened is the middle in every single business is gone, gone, gone forever."
Hulu's innovator's dilemma
"I was concerned if we didn't get our stuff onto the web somebody's going to steal it. Every single person in my company and NBC hated it. “You're going to destroy my advertising.” "You can't give our broadcast shows, and destroy our book of business.”
"I was concerned if we didn't get our stuff onto the web somebody's going to steal it. Every single person in my company and NBC hated it. “You're going to destroy my advertising.” "You can't give our broadcast shows, and destroy our book of business.”
"Shut up and go back to your office. Your job is not to protect your business. Your job is to maximize your business.” My job is to build newer businesses faster than the old ones decay. I'm not going to not innovate in this area in the order protect these other old businesses."
"If he liked you, Rupert was willing to get the board from more autonomy than anybody. Rupert gave me insane amounts of autonomy. When he picked me to be president of the company, I was a creative guy. I had never even run a business, I was just running creative things."
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