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Sam Reich

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
549 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

And then with the difficult ones, you sort of have to decide what you're voting for, like what you're optimizing for.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

And so if you have your priorities in order...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

oftentimes the the right decision will emerge meaning again hopefully our business is like pretty simple there are a lot of factors that we have to incorporate and those factors are something in between like the content itself the experience of the audience the welfare of the cast and crew uh our financials what's you know personally creatively exciting to me and if i have those

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

You know, roughly in the they're not in that order.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

I don't exactly know what order they fall into off the top of my head.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

But if I have those in the right order, I can usually make the right decision.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

It's more that's not me.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

I mean, I do feel like I'm on a little bit of an island where I get to be sort of like, you know, the mad trickster king of my domain.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

Yeah, I think so.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

Criterion Collection.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

Oh, okay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

It feels symptomatic of this world of content that we're living in.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

And so it's a fair question, like, well, why not more?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

And that's a good question.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

I think, you know, getting- I kind of expected it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

And yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

Sure, sure, sure.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

I mean, I do think that like,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy

As is the case in the internet, when you're browsing TikTok and you learn about someone with 9 million subscribers or followers who you've never heard of before, there are plenty of examples in our industry of businesses that are just running a little bit under the radar that are doing very, very well.