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Brian Grazer

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Imagine Entertainment · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard, producing films and television shows including A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, 8 Mile, 24, and Arrested Development. He is also the author of the non-fiction books A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life and Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection.

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2 assertions · 4 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Brian argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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270 words/min while actually speaking · 16.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Brian Grazer: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,436 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Brian Grazer said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grazer: Tech eliminated 25% first-dollar gross deals for movie talent
“It's made it a lot less lucrative for artists in the last five years. I mean, it's made it so, I mean, I'm thrilled that, I mean, I'm grateful that I had 20 years of, like, the, that was the real golden era, you know, for, so I, where you know, I could get 25%…”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:57 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Disclosure
Grazer: Poor economics drove my shift from theatrical films to television
“I mean, I can get them made just through, just sheer physics, just the force of me, like, but it's not attractive, so it's mostly what you just said, and for the most part, that's why I've kind of, I've shifted my focus or balance into television.”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:21 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Opinion
Grazer: Serena Williams lacked traditional childhood socialization due to lifelong tennis focus
“She's just been doing tennis her whole life, as you guessed, and so she's never really had real childhood or socialization, and she's very shy and sweet and soft voice”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:50 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Opinion
Grazer: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is cool and slightly elitist
“Jack Dorsey, who's a friend of mine, and a very selective guy, slightly, you know, cool, slightly elitist, doesn't like everybody.”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:20 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Insight
Grazer: Modern technology benefits mega-hits but destroys mid-budget movies
“Technology today works best on the mega hit thing, and I think, you know, Empire is a mega hit, and what you just, and Fast and Furious, and the Marvel movies for Disney, it's amazing. Those mega hits, it, it's working. But, It doesn't work for the doubles. Th…”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:54 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Opinion
Grazer: Combining entertainment and education is media's biggest open opportunity
“I think that's where the big void is. That's the, that would be, for me, the future.”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:55 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Opinion
Grazer: Steve Jobs had a low tolerance for unaligned people
“And I could feel that there could be a level of intolerance pretty quickly, because you had to be within, in his world. On the ball and in his world.”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:19 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grazer: Jeff Bezos was captivated by my meeting with Edward Teller
“Very smart, very focused, interested in physics, totally captivated by the fact that I met with Edward Teller, wanted to know everything about that Star Wars program.”
Brian Grazer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:37 a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us

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a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Jan 2, 2019 11m
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