Sam Reich
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If I was injecting athletes with experimental drugs and putting them anywhere, the first thing I would do as a producer of content is say, don't make it live because we don't know what's going to happen.
And the second thing that I would do is I would say, don't show me behind-the-scenes footage because I don't want to know what's going on back there.
You can only watch it on Zoop.
And also the people who have injected themselves with Zoop are going to say, only on Zoop.
I've had a lot of fun here today, and I feel like my contribution is any indication.
You should not have that thing, but I'm willing to imagine that this show is more than just me and my call.
Sometimes some people call me the founder of Dropout, which actually is not true.
Dropout- Oh, well, I- You beg to differ.
I do.
Great.
I'll take it.
Listen, Dropout was a priority that came out of IAC, who was our corporate parent at the time.
This is who owned CollegeHumor.
And for years and years, IAC was trying to figure out how
we would make not just a lot of money, but a lot, a lot of money.
And there was always kind of a โ a cynic might call it a get-rich-quick scheme of the time.
And it was ad sales, and then social media took a big chomp out of ad sales.
And then it was television, and it turned out television production didn't scale very effectively.
And then finally, the idea was let's try going direct to audience.
Right.