Taylor Lorenz

But the base and the Democrats were it was primarily consuming institutional media.

Even today, they're still more loyal to institutional media, whereas that, you know, the Tea Party was like a very like Internet driven reactionary movement.

The Republican Party.

base has always been sort of more hyper online, especially the MAGA movement, which grew from the Internet.

And got no views.

And it flopped.

This is not the first time that VCs have tried to create shows.

Let's not forget Sri Ram, who we were just talking about, had a show for years on the Andreessen Horowitz YouTube channel that could not break 200 views, okay?

They've constantly... They had their clubhouse show, right, that Andreessen had.

Like, they have been trying to create content forever.

These, unfortunately, for some reason, even though they invent the technology...

I mean, I think for a lot of reasons, mainly that they're out-of-touch billionaires.

But, like, these people cannot understand, like, media.

Like, sort of basic, like... I mean, Andreessen has been trying desperately, but they just discovered the term new media, something that I think peaked in popularity around 2008.

Like, they really are behind.

And it's...

Interesting to me how bad they are at content.

Meanwhile, you have this like massive private equity firm TPG doing a huge partnership with CAA to actually invest in creators businesses, which makes a lot of sense now that CAA is running, you know, heading pretty more into digital.

So I just I think there are actually smart investors in this area that really understand media.

It's just they're not in Silicon Valley.