My January 2014 TechCrunch Interview - Anticipating This Year’s Eventual Massive New Content-Driven Investment “Wins"

In late January 2014, I sat down with TechCrunch and discussed my predictions for content-driven investment opportunities and overall innovation for the year.  Among other things, I anticipated the accelerating “rush” of Silicon Valley-based money flowing Southward to LA that continues to this day (and will only accelerate in 2015), as well as 2014’s subsequent mega content-driven M&A (and significant investor returns).  This past year, these included: (1) Disney’s acquisition of leading MCN Maker Studios for up to $1 billion; (2) Apple’s near $3 billion acquisition of Beats; and (3) Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of V/R-driven Oculus Rift.

Here is the full interview in which I discuss a new “Golden Age” of content -- which is at the core of all of these deals (as well as continuing hundreds/billions of dollars of investment, blue-chip Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz’s $50 million investment in BuzzFeed to fuel ever-greater video development).