2 A.M. JamPod Mayank Garg | Aditya Mathur

With our final podcast for the season, we reflect on one of the most uncertain year of our lives, opening up about the lessons learnt, mistakes committed and goals achieved. Join us for a heartwarming season finale.

We are happy to be back after a break. This time, we kept the conversations raw and unfiltered for your ears. What are climate models and do they actually work? Who may be solving the world's energy problems: Activists or Entrepreneurs? Is Tesla a car company or an energy company? And finally, what are the lessons from 19th Century America's Gilded age? Let's find out. 

Among Us is a multiplayer game which became a global video game phenomenon after two years of its release in 2018. Its popularity grew among twitch and youtube streamers and the game went viral via internet memes. Influencers and celebrities caught on the trend too. So is Among Us yet another viral trend that we witness or will it transform into an alternate social platform? What are the company's (a team of 3 developers, literally!) plans to sustain the business? Let's find out. 

In this episode, we study how businesses were affected due to the pandemic and how they recover and evolve. Which businesses were the worst-hit and which of them best adapted to this change? Some were completely antifragile. What are the changing trends and what may become the new normal? What can we learn from the history of economic depression? Let's find out.
Towards the end, we place our bets on potential (corona-born) businesses which may dominate the market. 

PART TWO

In this episode, we discuss about new emerging streaming platforms like MUBI, Quibi, etc. and the strategies they are adopting to compete with the Giants in the streaming industry; how they are targeting a completely different type of audience and bringing something new to the table.
We also discuss the "essential recipe" for an emerging OTT platform to take care of. 

OUTLINE: 

1:20 - New players like Mubi and others coming into the game.

2:00 - How blue oceans are getting created.

5:00 - How can you innovate on business model, to create a new user experience.

9:00 - Can Luxury niche be created in streaming service.

11:28 - D2C model, being at top of customer scale, by streaming services.

13:00 - History Repeating itself?

14:00 - How JioFiber can make OTT even more abundant, without hampering brand image?

16:00 - Netlfix knew that it will have to create a new original content.

18:30 - What if a new startup platform wants to build , how can it succeed?

20:00 - Quibi? What is it? Who they are competing against?

23:30 - Can SoftPorn streaming services strike a Homerun in India?

25:15 - Why it will be tough for AppleTV+ to succeed now?

28:00 - Figure out a competitive advantage in terms of technology.

28:30 - Why you should take inspiration from Gaming?

Linear TV is dead. And streaming platforms are the new reality. With the rise of Netflix, Amazon, Disney, etc., the media space has been completely revolutionized. What were the steps leading to this "disruption"? What makes Netflix so great and what kind of competitive advantage does it have? How to even compete with these sharks in the red ocean? Let's find out. 

OUTLINE: 

2:00 - Streaming industry taking over cable, and some numbers.

4.00 - Starting of Streaming with Netflix.

8:00 - How Ted Warner rejected Netflix as competition.

9:20 - Role of timing in the success of Netflix

11:10 - How Netflix had core roots in tech, and built it as a strong brand.

12:30 - The Netflix recommendation engine, the Cinematch algorithm.

16:00 - YouTube as a streaming platform.

17:00 - How many players are there in the entire Streaming Industry?

18:00 - Mental Model of YouTube, and if it can get paid memberships for its streaming.

19:00 - Psychology behind YouTube product and Netflix.

22:00 - How YouTube is trying to develop its niche in streaming.

23:00 - Numbers regarding subscribers in entire Streaming landscape.

25:00 - Kingdoms/Castles in the Cloud.

25:30 - 4 Reasons that made Netflix beat the shit out of competition, and dominate.

28:00 - Network Effects, and how they became netflix's moat.

30:30 - Economies of Scale.

32:00 - Power of Branding.

32:30 - Licensing deals of Disney with Netflix, and others.

33:00 - Netflix puts 16bn dollar into original content!