it is really early in the morning so i will probably add more thoughts when i wake up.
But when you talk to them about building an audience on a place where they can truly own their own content, their own connections and their own community they get very interested. Because they already know what they can do with an audience.
I don't know big accounts on any platforms, and the quoted statement is most probably true, but from what i saw in last 3+ years most of "bigger" people that came were not really interested to get their audience here, it was more like "i will here more people to follow and discover my content". And unfortunately number of people here is a rounding error for most bigger content creators. (if we talk outside crypto sphere, for crypto people this is decent crowd).
so it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
Yes most bigger content creators are usually always in search for where to find more people to add to their audience. We simply do not have that and should not be leading them to think that hive has that to offer. That is why the hive rewards pool focus is also problematic because they know how to create a message that statistically brings in a certain amount of a certain type of people... but with hive reward pool you need a very few particular users to be of impact and it doesn't matter if you can get 100k people to view your stuff if those particular users aren't them.
So bringing in other reward mechanisms that benefit their types of skill set... aka getting views... is something we will focus on.
Meanwhile if the pitch is that this is the best place to LEAD their audience to and not the best place to FIND an audience then the truth can be on our side