Shashir Mehrotra

But if you can do that, you should be able to build that relationship.

You should be able to construct it the way you want.

You should control it and you should be able to make money on it.

And you should, yeah.

I mean, I'm not here to tell you how to answer every question for what's changed in the creator economy.

I think it's one way to look at it is that the path to being a creator has become harder.

I think there's other ways that, you know, I assume this is going to end up on YouTube and Spotify and so on.

There's paths to becoming a creator that become easier.

And I think there were folks that when YouTube came out, they told us all the same things.

And they said, we don't understand.

Our business model is screwed over there, and so why should we work on YouTube?

And the ones that looked at it that way and saw it as replacement ended up not moving forward to the future.

Obviously, you did.

You run a show on all these platforms, and you figured out a way to turn that into a business.

And I think you saw that opportunity and you expanded what you could do.

I think if we look at AI from that perspective and say AI is here and it's reducing the number of people who need to traffic to my current experiences, I think that's one way to look at it.

And I think there will be some creators that look at it that way.

I would hope we look at it the other way and say some of these platforms are going to give you a way to participate.

are going to give you a way to take your expertise and put it in front of people in a way that actually helps them in a different way than you could connect in the past.

And I think that's a bright future.