Podbit · Up First from NPR
Trump has openly said he wanted CNN in the Ellisons' hands. The Ellisons took over CBS, installed a right-leaning editor, and Trump liked what he saw. When the regulator is the regulated's biggest fan, don't expect an antitrust fight.
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David Folkenflik takes the anchor chair for the media story of the year: the DOJ's Antitrust Division has signed off on Paramount's $111 billion bid for the much larger Warner Bros. Discovery without imposing a single condition. [1] — David Folkenflik "The DOJ's Antitrust Division just waved through the biggest like-for-like merger in Hollywood history with zero conditions. Two of the last…" 06:31 The deal combines Paramount+ with HBO, CBS with CNN, and two of Hollywood's last remaining legacy studio empires — a combination Folkenflik describes as the biggest like-for-like merger in the industry's history. The DOJ's rationale was that in the streaming era, the relevant competitive market has exploded: Netflix, Apple, Amazon Prime Video, and others provide ample competition. That argument may be legally defensible, but the sheer scale of the consolidation — and the fact that zero divestitures were required — still struck observers as remarkable.
The DOJ approved Paramount's $111 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with zero conditions attached — the biggest like-for-like merger in Hollywood history.
After an 8-month review, the DOJ's Antitrust Division found no threat to competition and imposed zero conditions on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Audience-building isn't a shortcut — it's a 3-year content grind before the product even exists. The speaker reveals that his monetisation success was entirely downstream of years spent tweeting daily and creating content, not talent or luck.
Building a monetisable audience on Twitter costs just 5 minutes a day — but it has to happen every day for years. The time barrier is low; the consistency barrier is where most people fail.
Sam built Algrow, a SaaS for finding viral content formats, with zero coding experience using ChatGPT and Cursor. Six months later: 10,000 users, $14K/month in revenue.
Sam's first MVP threw an application error on its very first user — and he shipped it anyway. The core idea worked, and that was enough to validate the product and keep users coming back.
Sam joined Discord voice chats, muted himself, and silently screen-shared his product. Users in the chat started tagging him asking what the tool was. No pitch needed — curiosity did the selling.
Most founders post links in Discord and immediately get banned for self-promotion. Sam's approach was the opposite: build rapport, help people with the tool, let word of mouth do the work.
Find where your ICP lives. Listen before building. Validate with DMs and Loom recordings. Build in public with users inside your own Discord server. Turn early adopters into advocates with free access.
Instead of fearing the self-promo ban in large Discord servers, create your own private server for your product. You funnel in ideal customers and build a relationship that email can't replicate.
Algrow helps creators find and replicate viral video formats, starting at $25/month. It analyzes subscriber counts, average views, and trending formats — and can even generate the videos with AI.
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