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''What I'm trying, well, what I'm trying to do is I've tried two new models, one of which I'm calling reverse sponsorship, where I shout out some great company which doesn't know that I'm going to say something positive, and maybe they become sponsors, maybe they don't, but the other one is [[Riskvertise|riskvertisers]], where people get to know me over long periods of time, and the hope is that you're going to say look, you're not going to catch me being horrible and bigoted and all of these things, but I might say something dangerous, like something that I just said about immigration, and will you make sure that you will not run away from me during the period where the mob descends and the frenzy is at its worst? Right? Because if we don't fix the economic models, we can't have deeper discussions because everybody's going to run away at the first sight of trouble.''
- '''Eric Weinstein''' on [[8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate the Media Wants You to Ignore|The Portal Ep. 8]]
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What I'm trying, well, what I'm trying to do is I've tried two new models, one of which I'm calling reverse sponsorship, where I shout out some great company which doesn't know that I'm going to say something positive, and maybe they become sponsors, maybe they don't, but the other one is riskvertisers, where people get to know me over long periods of time, and the hope is that you're going to say look, you're not going to catch me being horrible and bigoted and all of these things, but I might say something dangerous, like something that I just said about immigration, and will you make sure that you will not run away from me during the period where the mob descends and the frenzy is at its worst? Right? Because if we don't fix the economic models, we can't have deeper discussions because everybody's going to run away at the first sight of trouble.

- Eric Weinstein on The Portal Ep. 8


Advertisers vs Riskvertisers:

An advertiser is a company commandeering attention to promote a product. A riskvertiser, by contrast, would be a courageous firm that underwrites important speech others wish to ban, and asks the public to consider its product in return for courage.

Dec 21, 2018

We the public and the creators need to stop supporting advertisers who buckle to sanctimonious mobs out of cowardice when the charges are frivolous.

More importantly, WE need to lead and build the Riskvertising industry. Let’s reward those companies that treat us as adults.

Dec 21, 2018

The following is an (unauthorized) RISKVERTISMENT for @DrBronner.

I love DR BRONNER soap! Their luxurious Castille soaps are no less amazing than their corporate bravery in support of Psychedelic Research on substances which are currently illegal!

Dec 21, 2018

#RewardCourage #Riskvertise. If you know of other firms that don’t buckle under pressure and who are interested in underwriting free speech, psychedelic research, and other unpopular worthy causes, please let me know! Let’s experiment with paying it forward until we find underwriters who don’t cut &run.

Dec 21, 2018

And note: this isn’t about Tucker. It’s about general ambient pressure that seems more about sanctimony than ethics.

9:28 AM Ā· Dec 21, 2018


I get this question a lot. It’s not on YouTube (yet) but appeared in sequence as audio only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563?i=1000444882790

Hope that helps. It describes our coming ā€œRiskvertisingā€ sponsorship model among other things. šŸ™

5:31 AM Ā· Aug 22, 2019

Hey uh @EricRWeinstein what happened to "The Portal" episode #2? #WhereIsEpisodeTwo

4:42 AM Ā· Aug 22, 2019

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