#282 – Media vs Tech, Twitter Monsters, and Making Millions From Content with Steph Smith of a16z

Yo. What's going on, man? How are you doing? Dude, I am so excited about the, thing that I'm coding right now. Do you subscribe to you subscribe to every. Right? Like, the publication from Nathan Vachez? Yeah. I I subscribe to it. I love every piece I read, but, like, I never actually make time to read that shit that comes out of my mouth. Stuff that I think is good. But Exactly. The last one that I forwarded to you, remember that one? It was about AI. I was reading it. I was like, this is exactly my jam. They were writing about how people are gonna start using AI to classify, like, content from their users. Like, if you run, like, a blogging platform, you're gonna run it to, like, on your user's blog post if you got it for any good. Or if you run a social media, like a social network, you're gonna run it on, like, people's tweets or whatever to see if, like, their posts are any good. And so I have been, like, writing the same code for indie hackers, And I was scrolling down the article reading about it, and I was like, okay. I can't wait to, like, read you know, I hope they have some tips. And they're like, oh, I got this idea from this tweet. And I looked at the tweet, and it was my tweet. It was, like, my tweet where I was talking about using AI to classify spam on indie hackers. So you thought you were gonna you you thought you were gonna, like, learn something from them and then and ends up being that they learn from you. Yeah. Exactly. But I ended up building the classifiers. That's what I've been working on, like, all all day. Hey. What's up, Steph? Hi. Good to see you. Oh. And nice to meet you, Channing. I know we've exchanged emails, but, Cortland, nice to see you again as well. You guys have never met. No. Not in real life. I have this weird twin thing where I assume everybody that I've met, my brother has met. Is that how it works? I feel like I've been, like, the behind the scenes newsletter, website, content personality, and you've been the on the mic dude for a minute. Yeah. But what's the what's the update? Now you guys have a podcast together where you just brought channel on now? Or I got bored of doing the podcast by myself. I was like, you know what's not fun? Being on the hook to do a podcast for myself every time. And you've got another podcast. I think it's like shit you don't learn in school. Yeah. And you have, like, a cohost. And you have a 16 z or I think you're constantly interviewing people, but, like, you're always on the hook. Right? I know the feeling. Yeah. And it Yeah. I don't know how it feels to …