{"id":555,"date":"2006-09-29T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/29\/only-a-moron-listens-to-mark-cuban\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T19:13:27","slug":"only-a-moron-listens-to-mark-cuban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/29\/only-a-moron-listens-to-mark-cuban\/","title":{"rendered":"Only a moron listens to Mark Cuban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my friend Mark Evans <a href=\"http:\/\/evans.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2006\/9\/29\/2372272.html\">points out<\/a>, billionaire sports-team owner and media mogul Mark Cuban is often a refreshing blast of sanity amidst the hype and hoopla surrounding Web 2.0 and Internet business models in general, but his recent <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1026_3-6121034.html\">diatribe on YouTube<\/a> and how only a moron would buy it is a little off the mark, I think (pardon the pun).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what someone like Mark might have said about a little Internet venture called Broadcast.com way back when the first Internet bubble was being inflated. Would they have said that only a moron would pay $5.7-billion for such <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broadcast.com\">a wild dream<\/a> about the future of online video? I bet they would have. Luckily for Mark, Yahoo wasn&#8217;t listening and it coughed up enough cash to make him a billionaire, and now he can play with his sports team and tell everyone else how stupid they are. I think <a href=\"http:\/\/dondodge.typepad.com\/the_next_big_thing\/2006\/09\/mark_cuban_love.html\">Don Dodge<\/a> and I are on the same page.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/youtube2.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"youtube\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Umair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bubblegeneration.com\/2006\/09\/show-me-moneytube.cfm\">points out<\/a> at Bubblegeneration, YouTube is trying disrupt the entire video value chain, and has gotten a least a couple of rights-holders interested in pursuing that opportunity, and others such as NBC seem to be thinking along the same lines. That doesn&#8217;t mean YouTube will necessarily succeed, nor does it mean that someone should pay $2-billion for it. But there is value there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fred Wilson says we should <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2006\/09\/stop_the_youtub.html\">stop the YouTube hating<\/a>, and points to a <a href=\"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/09\/29\/mark-cubanyoutube\/\">great rant<\/a> from music industry gadfly Bob Lefsetz, as well as a recent piece on YouTube with comments from Chad Hurley in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/30\/business\/30tube.html?_r=2&amp;ref=business&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">New York Times<\/a>. And Jason Calacanis has some further thoughts on the issue, in which he says that YouTube&#8217;s genius has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacanis.com\/2006\/09\/30\/on-youtube-hating-and-loving-or-thread-that-needle-baby\/#comments\">distribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my friend Mark Evans points out, billionaire sports-team owner and media mogul Mark Cuban is often a refreshing blast of sanity amidst the hype and hoopla surrounding Web 2.0 and Internet business models in general, but his recent diatribe on YouTube and how only a moron would buy it is a little off the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/29\/only-a-moron-listens-to-mark-cuban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only a moron listens to Mark Cuban&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}