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Tim League controversially offered a remote job to an accused employee
“I made the decision at the board meeting to offer him a copy editing position that he could do from home.”
Tim League: Streaming will not replace consumer demand for cinema experiences
“No matter how much streaming content you watch at home, you want to get out, you want to be a part of an event, you want to have experiences. So I think there's legit pressure to up the game to make sure that our industry, cinema industry, delivers, you know, …”
Karrie League: Alamo Drafthouse early expansion was driven by fear
“I feel like most of the expansion that we've done, or that we did early on, was entirely based in fear.”
League: Alamo Drafthouse had two payroll cycles left in December 2020
“We probably had about two payroll cycles left before we were done. And so in December, we took on some basically distressed asset financing, right? So that money's not cheap, but turns out not a lot of people waiting in line to invest in movie theaters at in D…”
League: Alamo Drafthouse trains servers to crouch and know movie timings
“It's a huge part of our training to, you know wear black and crouch down and know the movie. Don't disrupt during you know a key pivotal moment”
Alamo Drafthouse founders refused to see cinema advertising revenue estimates
“There were several times when we had the opportunity to find out how much of an income stream that it would be, and we both said, no, we don't want to know. We don't want to know. We don't want to have any regrets at all or any inkling of temptation, so don't …”
Tim League: Alamo Drafthouse funded second theater with $300,000 in profits
“That one was 300,000 dollars and we just financed it out of profits.”
Karrie League: Voicemail clip is Alamo Drafthouse's most popular PSA
“Yeah, we always do a PSA to explain our policy to people before the movie, and that's by far our most popular PSA of all time.”
Karrie League: Parents mortgaged their home to lend $100K for Alamo
“They mortgaged their house. In order to lend us a 100,000 dollars.”
Karrie League: Alamo name was chosen for phone book ranking and building shape
“We want to be first in the phone book, so it has to start with A. And the top of our original building had that kind of Alamo-esque shape to it.”
Alamo Drafthouse launched anonymous feedback and public monthly staff reviews
“So what we did in the wake of it is we established a really robust Anonymous engine where I would start my day every day and just read comments from teammates across the country, and we had a monthly all staff meeting where the ones that were the hardest, we w…”