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Katzenberg: Hollywood publicly humiliates failure while Silicon Valley embraces it
“In Southern California, you know, so let me just start with the following... Failure comes with huge public humiliation... In Silicon Valley, you know, you fail, you get onto the next thing. Like failure makes you smarter, makes you stronger.”
Katzenberg: Quibi returned $600M of its initial $1B to investors
“We returned six hundred million dollars out of the initial billion dollars to our investors, and I don't think I would have gotten there without him.”
Katzenberg: Silicon Valley layoffs will fuel the next generation of startups
“Harry, I'm going to say to you, not only do I feel it's not dead, I'm going to take a contrary point of view that what in fact is going on in the Valley today is going to create a whole new crop, a whole new generation, because all the downsizing that's going …”
Katzenberg: Delaying firing bad hires for months kills companies
“Because if they're not going to work out inside of your enterprise, your company, whatever it is that you're building, the faster you get to that, the better. That's one of the lessons I learned along the way, which is, I had seen, ok, well let's give them thr…”
Katzenberg: Bringing Steve Jobs and Pixar to Disney was transformative
“For me, probably the most transformative moment is when you know, I reached out to Steve Jobs and John Lasseter and brought them into the Walt Disney Company and made a home for Pixar.”
Katzenberg: DreamWorks' survival depended on pivoting to computer animation
“And for me, having lived through the disruption of hand-drawn animation to computer animation I would say was, you know, probably one of the greatest challenges, and our survival literally depended on our ability to make a pivot. It was brutal. We lost a lot o…”
Katzenberg: Quibi was his first time losing investor money in 40 years
“In my entire career, I have never lost money for somebody who invested or backed me in what I was doing ever before this, which for someone who spent 40 years in media and entertainment, that's a unicorn.”
Katzenberg realized a COO hire was a mistake within two days
“I've had things where I hired a COO of my company, and the day after he arrived, right, two days after he arrived, I went, oh my god, this is not going to work. I, and right, and like, I mean, literally, it was a big headline news in the business, and you know…”
Katzenberg: DreamWorks would have gone bankrupt without computer animation pivot
“Having lived through the disruption of hand-drawn animation to computer animation, I would say was Probably one of the greatest challenges, and our survival literally depended on our ability to make a pivot. It was brutal. We lost a lot of very talented people…”
Katzenberg: Never lost investor money in 40-year career prior to Quibi
“In my entire career, I have never lost money for somebody who invested or backed me in what I was doing, ever.”
Katzenberg: Companies will return to in-person work for key roles
“The value of people being together in certain types of functions inside of companies, I think is invaluable. And I think it's been underestimated, and I think you'll see a return to it. It may not happen overnight, but it'll get there.”
Katzenberg: Quibi returned $600M of its initial $1B to investors
“We returned six hundred million dollars out of the initial billion dollars to our investors”
Katzenberg: Venture market will take longer to right-size due to delayed choices
“Just that it's going to take longer for it to right size itself or the economic environment that we're in. People will hold on longer than they should and not make the hard choices that they need to make to succeed.”