Streaming’s First Click to the Creator Economy with Patrick Seaman – Epi-3733

The Survival Podcast

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Today I’m joined by a guy I’ve known for almost 30 years. Back in the 90s I was selling and designing data centers for companies diving into the digital deep end. One of those companies was Broadcast.com, and one of my main contacts was Patrick Seaman. He was employee number one at a company that helped kick the doors open on internet streaming before most people even knew what it was. We’ve kept in touch ever since. And now, he’s got a new book out called Streaming Wars that tells the whole story from the inside. If you’ve ever streamed … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	there's a better way to do this let me show you a better way to Well, hi, folks. This is Jack Spirko with another edition of the Survival Podcast.
0:23.0	It's always one man's view of the changing world, the changing times, and the things we can all do to live a better life.
0:28.1	If times get tough, or even if they don't.
0:30.8	Today is Wednesday, September 17th, 2025, and this is episode 3,733 of the survival podcast.
0:42.3	And I'm kind of just calling an audible or something here.
0:45.3	I'm making an adjustment for today's interview.
0:49.3	I had Patrick Seaman on today, and you're about to hear Patrick and I have a discussion of about an hour and 30 minutes.
0:55.8	The problem is the discussion went about two hours.
0:58.6	The first 30 minutes of it is I would consider largely unusable.
1:04.0	We had technical glitches with streaming, and the guy you're about to hear from is literally like the father of streaming.
1:11.7	This is the guy that created streaming when there was no streaming.
1:15.6	It was like the universe decided to play a joke on me today and torment me.
1:21.1	Patrick was also a mentor from my past.
1:23.5	I met him back in the 90s when you hear me talk about my days of knowing Mark Cuban and stuff like, this is one of the guys from that time.
1:32.1	His story is amazing and the story that he's told in his book, the streaming wars is pretty amazing.
1:37.3	His advice for entrepreneurs is gold.
1:40.1	And it's going to be a great discussion.
1:42.0	It's just missing some of the time.
2:01.6	What I'm going to do, I am going to take the unedited first, it's really 40 minutes, but 10 of it's me blathering on about the intro stuff. I'm going to put that as an MP3 file on my server, but I'm not going to link it in directly with the show. I'm going to put a link in the show notes to where you can find it if you want to try to glean something from it. That will be up to you. I hate that this happened,
2:07.5	but it did. And that's just the way things are. Given that I'm doing that, let me redo my
2:12.8	sponsor segment at the beginning for you here. Theor to the day number one today is above phone.
2:20.3	Even if you're not ready to step into an above phone and above tablet or an above book right now,
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