Our Pillars: Four Big Bets
“The best investor is a social scientist.”Michael Milken From 2006-12, we experimented with production and distribution tactics until finding our product/market (or platform/format) fit. In doing s…| contextisking.com
“The best investor is a social scientist.”Michael Milken From 2006-12, we experimented with production and distribution tactics until finding our product/market (or platform/format) fit. In doing s…| contextisking.com
Explore the intriguing parallels between YouTube's early days and Roblox's current journey as both platforms redefine user-generated content.| contextisking.com
Explore the intriguing parallels between YouTube's early days and Roblox's current journey as both platforms redefine user-generated content.| contextisking.com
A decade ago, digital’s pennies weren’t enticing enough for traditional media companies; today that slow footedness is haunting many of them. Jeff Zucker, the former NBC executive and n…| contextisking.com
Tactics need to adapt over time. In content, you actually have to adapt a production strategy that reflects the realities of distribution at a given moment in time. When we embarked on our WatchMoj…| contextisking.com
I’ve learned something valuable from the example of each of the business figures cited below: 1. Sumner Redstone, Viacom: Content is indeed king, but it’s the new distribution models that unl…| contextisking.com
When Viacom founder Sumner Redstone said “content is king,” it was in the context that additional distribution outlets give rights holders new ways to monetize the content. Indeed, thanks to the I…| contextisking.com
VC (TechCrunch contributor) Mark Suster published an article on his personal blog about one of his portfolio companies, Maker Studios. Other players in that space include The Collective and Fullsc…| contextisking.com
Google’s former Chairman Eric Schmidt called advertising the “last bastion of unaccountable spending in corporate America.” He’s wrong, but only because there rema…| contextisking.com
Yesterday we looked at how companies can avoid dying through innovation, risk-taking. Today we look at the method to the madness of our series of bold bets which paid off. In 2016, I was meeting wi…| contextisking.com
XYZ Corp. vs ABC Inc. are two companies that take different approaches to how they view their cash flow. In my first day of finance class in 1996, the professor declared: “the role of the fin…| contextisking.com
To: Mr. Michael Rousseau Cc: Air Canada Board of Directors Dear Mr. Rousseau, Over the past month, I traveled between Montreal and New York City during the course of my company’s M&A process. U…| contextisking.com
AI is the latest tool helping storytellers push boundaries — but like every major technological shift before it, it’s disruptive. More often than not, it’s the challengers who embrace new tec…| contextisking.com
Bill Gates, Sumner Redstone are both credited with articulating that “content is king.” Understanding what that means in the new world order explains why some companies emerged as the w…| contextisking.com
Criticizing a mother is the easiest thing to do about the hardest job in the world. It’s also a thankless job, in some ways… While motherhood is bar none the toughest gig there is, fath…| contextisking.com
For some, spring serves as a new beginning so this year, I was exploring a number of ideas & initiatives in the education space, which along with health are areas of interest and philanthropic …| contextisking.com
The purpose of copyright is to promote the arts and sciences. Fair use – via commentary or parody – also promotes the arts and sciences. But at its root, fair use’s importance in …| contextisking.com
RIP to one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation whose vision, kindness, generosity, and emphasis on culture & community was unparalleled. Tony Hsieh has passed away at the age of 46 …| contextisking.com
Last week, Dax Dasilva, CEO of Lightspeed Commerce mentioned on Linkedin: “Entrepreneurs need to constantly reinvent themselves. I think the best way to do that is to throw out your job description and rewrite it from scratch — and this... Continue Reading →|
Servant leadership, a stakeholder mindset & an empathetic management style have served me well. That will never change, but as we have gone from an unknown scrappy startup to an established successful business over twenty years, I acknowledge that “what... Continue Reading →|
Anger is a natural emotion that can range from mild irritation to intense fury, while wrath is a more intense & destructive form of anger. In other words, you don’t control anger, but you can control your wrath, which is one of the... Continue Reading →|
In Jack Welch’s outgoing biography, he touched on the importance of People & Competition, two things he loved and parlayed into a successful career as “manager of the 20th century.” Competition…| contextisking.com
For the record, I am no Trump hater and even called his first win as early as Jan 2016 & from the onset suggested 2024 was his election to lose. He’s what America views as a leader, a man capable... Continue Reading →|
“The Only Constant in Life Is Change.”- Heraclitus. Reality is even disrupters get disrupted, and no matter how driven & ambitious people may have been at once, they all get complacent, lazy, a…| contextisking.com
Over the past 20 years, a handful of trends have coalesced and taken the media world by storm. How does one survive, let alone thrive? As 2025 will mark YouTube (& WatchMojo’s) 20 year an…| contextisking.com
YouTube, you’ve come a long way. As 2025 marks both YouTube & WatchMojo’s 20-year anniversaries, my co-host & colleague Rob Flis kicked off episode 1 of “InsideMojo.”…| contextisking.com
Anywhere you look, there’s a growing sense of consolidation in digital media & video of note: Buzzfeed Sold Hot Ones, Brat.tv acquired Electric Monster. In Q4 alone, I got four inbound exp…| contextisking.com
Growing up, one of my favorite sitcoms was Growing Pains, with Alan Thicke’s character Dr Jason Seaver as psychologist, serving as patriarch, provider, trying to be the best parent he could. As suc…| contextisking.com
Forty-five years after joining forces with Marxists to topple Iran’s king (or Shah) and ending 2500 years of monarchic rule, the Mullahs have somehow incredibly managed to raise the popularity and …| contextisking.com
The MEK has no support inside Iran and was on America’s list of terrorist organizations. Yet today, some American politicians are standing by their side and backing them. Why? I didn’t grow u…| contextisking.com
You know the drill: another repeat question from someone… so today we tackle something a bit different. Another common theme that I get asked about is an area where historically all humans, b…| contextisking.com
For years, I was a staunch bull in media and content, but consumer behaviour and technology trends make investing in media increasingly difficult. From 2006-2012, I published reports, forecasts, th…| contextisking.com
