The Best One Yet
📖 “Holy Profit” — The Bible’s sales surge. Spotify Wrapped’s AI stunt. South Korea’s econ underdog.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024
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What is Spotify Wrapped and its significance?
And it would produce a 45-minute podcast episode with two AI hosts talking about the Colosseum.
Are you not entertained?
Now, will the AI host correctly interpret the information and tell a compelling story arc? We don't know. Will the hosts add unique insights from their life experiences? Probably not, because they're bots. Will the AI hosts have the sprinkle and dinkle and razzle dazzle of Nick and Jack's?
I sure hope they don't, Jack.
I really hope they don't because then we're in trouble. Jack, can you give me a cookie crisp just to keep us on top, man? Oh, no, because AI is probably training on this episode right now. They're going to steal our cookie crisp. We see you, AI. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Spotify? AI has made big tech twice as valuable. AI podcasts show us why.
Yetis, tech companies have become utilities. Must have services that every single company needs. Every company needs electricity, internet access, and cloud computing from Amazon. And it looks like every company will now need a generative AI provider as well. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple. Those are the five big tech dragons that know how to do generative AI the best.
So every other company that wants to be on the cutting edge is going to end up partnering with one of those big five tech companies on AI. Like how Spotify's AI podcasts completely depend on Google's AI programming. And besties that, that's why those five big tech dragons have each gained $1 trillion in value since generative AI began. AI, it's made big tech twice as valuable.
And AI podcasts are the perfect example showing why. For our second story, there's one book driving the entire publishing industry right now, and that book is the Bible. After 2,000 years, the Bible is selling at all-time highs, and there's a lesson for the media industry. And on the eighth day, God said, can I buy this book with Apple Pay?
Yetis, despite digital media, the book publishing industry is still huge and it is growing right now. Americans buy 1 billion books per year, which is three books per American. And Barnes & Noble, they're adding 60 new bookstores this year because the book industry has got some momentum. For like my entire life, Barnes & Noble was reducing in size. It was. Now they're growing in size again.
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