HBO

“When quizzes got really big, a month after that, we could have a branded quiz for HBO, which is, how will you die in Game of Thrones? And you answer questions, and it'll be like, you'll be trampled, or you'll be beheaded. And, like, it was, it got a million vi…”

“The head of programming at HBO left the company in the days after she bought our show.”

“We shot this video on a 200 dollar camera we bought at Walmart. We edited this in iMovie”

“I mean, I was making, you know, I was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. This was more money than I made even post HBO. It was a legitimate business.”

“One was a model which HBO had. And later Showtime adopted, which was selling direct to consumer, say for eight dollars a month, you could subscribe to HBO, and the revenue from that subscriber would be split. 50% to the cable operator, the distributor, and 50%…”

“One of the most common questions you get that I'll, that'll never leave my mind, but in, in pilots, there's always that question of why today? Why are we coming into this show today? And why are we following these characters on this specific day? What is our w…”

“HBO put in five million bucks as part of, they didn't want me to do the ringer. They wanted me to do the TV show and that's it.”

“We had to bid against HBO. This was not Kind of junior content. This was first, you know, lead content. HBO was thinking of it. And we came in with a higher financial bid, even though we couldn't justify it at the time.”

“Every cable network, which is a subscription business, had started on other people's content, build some audience, and then start to add their own content. HBO was built on other people's content, and then got good at original programming. So Again, it was a v…”