Jeffrey Katzenberg

Founding Partner, WndrCo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg is a Founding Partner at WndrCo. He previously served as Chairman of Walt Disney Studios and was the co-founder and CEO of DreamWorks Animation.

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Jeffrey argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Katzenberg: Quibi will break two-hour movies into under-10-minute chapters
“What we're setting out to do, telling things that you would think of are movies, two to three hours in length, a tried, true, tested form of narrative, and then we are delivering them in these act breaks, which are under 10 minutes.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:30 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology

How they sound: speaking style how? →

235 words/min while actually speaking · 1.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jeffrey Katzenberg: 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 4,273 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Jeffrey Katzenberg is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Jeffrey Katzenberg 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
Katzenberg: 25-to-35-year-olds watch 70 minutes of short-form video daily
“Today, as Meg said, if you're 25 to 35 years old, which is our core audience of who we're targeting on this. You're watching 70 minutes of short form content today, and it's going up like this. It's up 30 minutes year over year.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:11 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Assertion Partly supported
Katzenberg: Average scripted television costs $100,000 per minute to produce
“Well, an average scripted hour of television today, whether it's on cable, broadcast, or streaming videos, is a 100,000 dollars a minute.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:26 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Prediction Held up
Katzenberg: Quibi will break two-hour movies into under-10-minute chapters
“What we're setting out to do, telling things that you would think of are movies, two to three hours in length, a tried, true, tested form of narrative, and then we are delivering them in these act breaks, which are under 10 minutes.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:30 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Assertion Supported
Katzenberg: YouTube takes a 45% distribution fee on creator advertising revenue
“They would take a 45% distribution fee. And they would actually sell programmatic advertising.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:52 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Disclosure
Katzenberg: AwesomenessTV content cost between $500 and $1,500 per minute
“I was involved at DreamWorks, where we had Awesomest TV. That was typically our, and we actually had a very, very successful company and brand, and our content ranged in that 500 to 1500 dollars a minute.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:01 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Katzenberg: Director Antoine Fuqua is conducting mobile camera tests for Quibi
“So, last week, Anton Fuqua got together with the product and engineering team and agreed on a series of tests that he's going to go out and Shoot here, dealing with all these issues around landscape and portrait and all the things that you are sort of natural …”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 33:05 a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology

The other half of the tape: Jeffrey Katzenberg's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 2 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology Jan 2, 2019 23m
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