Discovery Channel, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 34John Hendricks 10Mark Rober 1Beatriz Acevedo 1
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CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
- ▶ 36:35 Mark Rober And for Discovery Channel, and we called it like Revengeineers.
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 6:33 Beatriz Acevedo So I, I went with my three Emmys under my arm, my MTV award, and a VHS tape, um, with some sort of, you know, demos to try to get my career going in the U.S., and as luck would have it, I sold my first series to Discovery Channel, and…
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Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- ▶ 0:59 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how John Hendricks broke into the cable industry with no money, no content, and no carrier, launched Discovery Channel, and grew it into one of the best known brands on television. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:06 John Hendricks I had kind of started thinking about Discovery, but there was a number of prospects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:35 John Hendricks You have, there are several moments like that, and, you know, one of my heroes was Walter Cronkite, and when he stepped down from the anchors chair for CBS Evening News, it was kind of on a promise that CBS would, would invest in a series…
- ▶ 40:45 Guy Raz So, 1984, there's this trade show in Anaheim, California, uh, and you've got a booth there for Discovery Channel, but you, you didn't have any content yet that you could show people, um, but I guess you, you, at this show, you had worked…
- ▶ 45:35 Guy Raz All right, so it's June 1719 85, which, which is the day you actually launch, where, where the Discovery Channel is going out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:08 John Hendricks That's about a million dollars, and, uh, we'll offer you stock in Discovery Channel in lieu of that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:08 Guy Raz So, it's 1985, just months after John has launched Discovery Channel. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:34 John Hendricks Then you know you have the, the business model in place, and then when you look at growth and distribution, we saw when we crossed fifteen million, we had all these advertisers that we'll be glad to advertise on Discovery Channel and make… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:45 Guy Raz The story of Discovery in the nineties and the 2000 is, is well known. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:36 Guy Raz You launched a venture called CuriosityStream, um, which is essentially a version of, of your, I think your original version of, vision of discovery, which is great educational content, but that would be available, uh, on demand through…
- ▶ 1:11:35 John Hendricks You know, without John Malone, without those four cable operators stepping up when they did, I don't know if there would be a discovery channel today.
- ▶ 1:11:55 Guy Raz That's John Hendricks, founder of Discovery. 4 times in the scene