Sean Cannell
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you're just talking to people, just talking about the real, you know, behind the scenes and, and, uh, how in some cases an MCN had, you know, a top couple of guys are paying all the bills.
This is like record levels.
you know, are bringing in all the revenue, but then you have other creators and drama behind the scenes.
But I think it's just part of it.
I think a lot of that is, it sounds like a theme that's consistent in media.
So probably the smartest thing to do is to like get a ton of wisdom.
And like, what are the, what are like the red flags and yellow flags?
What are some things that I could do differently?
But I think it is ripe for innovation because the space is insane.
Numbers, Goldman Sachs said the creator economy
is going to double between now and 2027.
In terms of the total addressable market, the TAM, from about a $250 billion industry to a half a trillion dollar industry, how much money is in the system?
So networks make sense and like scale makes a lot of sense, but how do you do that with wisdom?
And then how do you do it that's sustainable?
I think what happened is a lot of people built stuff on bubbles.
They built it when ads were a certain thing.
To your point, Dave is like more resilient because he has a tribe and other products and the long tail.
But if you build it on the bubble of ads, there's so much feast or famine in the creator economy.
Yeah.
How do you define happiness?