Entertainment Industry
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 8 episodes
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Catmull: Filmmakers Have a Vested Interest in Competitors' Success
“To some extent, the entertainment industry is, is a different kind of competitive landscape. If you've got a movie out in the theaters, then you would actually like all the other films not to be there because you want everybody to come to yours. But if you don…”
Finger: Entertainment is shifting toward unmediated, one-on-one parasocial relationships
“When you think of where entertainment is going, it's actually heading towards these parasocial relationships. It's creators. It's unmediated by the television shows. It's, you know, one-on-one.”
Hastings: Entertaining customers does not equal endorsing objectionable behavior
“Entertainment is not always going to be stuff that you love or that you emulate or is admirable. There's lots of stuff in entertainment that's not admirable and if you don't want to be in the entertainment business, that's fine, but if you do, this is a core p…”
Patterson: Storytelling is the core currency across all entertainment industry roles
“No matter where you end up in this industry, the real currency is the ability to tell a story. And whether you're a production accountant, who's trying to understand why a director made a decision to purchase something, or you're, you know, you're a writer dir…”
Andreessen: AI will expand entertainment and tech industry jobs and output
“On the other side of this kind of change, typically what happens is a much larger industry with like way more employment, way more output. And I, I'm a hundred percent convinced that's what's going to happen for sure in the tech industry and for sure in, in, i…”
Bijli: Taking a de-glamorized view of entertainment improves long-term outcomes
“Actually the more de-glamorized view you take of the industry, the better off. You will be in the long run.”
Sivanandan: Breaking into entertainment is harder than starting a tech company
“It's almost easier to set up like a tech company or any company for that matter than it is to actually break into the sphere. That I think is like a huge barrier.”
Doctorow: Copyright law should exempt consumers outside the entertainment industry
“There are a bunch of rules that I would like for copyright, but the most important copyright reform, the thing that gets lost whenever we talk about copyright reform, Is that we should just stop asking people who aren't in the entertainment industry to give a …”
Entertainment industry networking is inherently transactional
“There's something oddly, in the entertainment industry, there's something oddly transactional about the relationships, And if you go into it kind of understanding that, like, it's not to say that it's, they're insincere because you're, you obviously have frien…”