This story originally appeared in Boardroom’s Spring Issue print magazine and has been adapted for online publication. The currency of fame has changed. And so has the way attention works. There was a time when culture was something we consumed together. Families gathered around the television at the same hour, on the same night, to watch the same thing. That’s how shows like Friends, Seinfeld, and The Cosby Show unified audiences. Their reach wasn’t niche or algorithmic. It was communal.