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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: Hyperscalers are investing $700B in capex over 24 months
“You know, there's seven hundred billion dollars of capital investment being made in 24 months.”
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: 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: 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: 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.”
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.”
Katzenberg offered Steve Jobs $50M to buy Pixar, but Jobs refused
“Then I went and tried to buy the company from Steve Jobs for fifty million dollars, which is at a point in time when he was struggling with Next and actually was kind of financially stretched. He wouldn't sell it. And then made that three picture deal that tur…”
Katzenberg predicts WndrCo will generate $400M in free cash flow next year
“The holding company next year will probably be four hundred million dollars of free cash flow. Extremely profitable and Growing really, really nicely, which is kind of an amazing thing.”
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.”
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.”
Katzenberg: Harvey founder Winston Weinberg sought WndrCo's help for storytelling
“Literally in the very first meeting, when we talked with him, he said, I need help with my storytelling. Like I know my product crushes. I I'm like, there's no ends, ifs or buts about that. How do I get that out there into the world?”
Katzenberg: Bringing Pixar to Disney was his most transformative career moment
“For me, probably the most transformative moment is when I reached out to Steve Jobs and John Lasseter and brought them into the Walt Disney Company and made a home for Pixar.”
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.”
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 …”