It's not a conflict of interest. It's a business model. And essentially what you have in America is slowly but surely we're monetizing everything. We monetize healthcare. We monetize education. We monetize uh enragement online. And now the president is monetizing the full faith and credit and power of the White House.
The content that's great that people want can't be monetized so you have to do one and one it'd be a little bit tricky like part of the way our show works is that we're just talking about whatever and and then we'll tell you about Cisco
AI and platform shifts have stolen creator content and decimated artists' reach and revenue streams, and Patreon has made some pretty existential changes to the way it works in response.
The question is how quickly can they get that 20 million co-pilot seats up to 200 million 400 million. You know, ideally everyone has one of these add-on subscriptions and that's lifting the overall business.
The creator and influencer economy works very differently than journalism does. If you take a high-level look at the business of most creators, they all kind of look like little ad agencies, doing brand deals and negotiating rates in a way that has always felt incompatible with journalism, at least to me.
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