Thomas Tull

Founder, Chairman & CEO, Tulco · 1 appearance on the record.

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Thomas Tull is the founder and former CEO of Legendary Entertainment, producing blockbuster films including The Dark Knight trilogy, 300, and The Hangover. Through Tulco, TWG Global, and USIT, he invests in artificial intelligence, defense technologies, and life sciences companies.

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Insight

Tull: Core business edge is improving existing models rather than inventing categories

“I'm not good at coming up with a new thing. Like, there was no such thing as social media, and I invented social media, and now that's a thing. I'm not, that's not my skill set. What I've done ok at is looking at an industry or a business model and saying, ok,…”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 7:44 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

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Tull: The $30B film industry lacked institutional private capital around 2003

“And in the movie industry, certainly if you had, if you own Disney stock or News Corp stock, that's available. But for an industry that size, there was no adjacent capital system.”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 17:06 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Opinion

Tull: Disney cornered the theatrical market with Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm

“I mean, they, I think under Bob Iger's leadership, and then Alan Horn, who was my partner at Warner Brothers before he went over to Disney, I mean, they went out and cornered the market between Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars with Lucasfilms, and have now, you kn…”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 24:57 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Insight

Tull: NFL teams must exploit league-shared data pools

“Now that the NFL has a massive pool of data that it's sharing with all the teams, I think if you're not prepared to take advantage of that, you're, you know.”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 47:12 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Insight

Tull blames sunk momentum for his biggest movie production failures

“I look back at some of my biggest mistakes were movies that you put together, for example, that you got the director you wanted, you got a release date, you got the cast, but the script isn't coming together. For whatever reason, you just kind of feel it, that…”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 14:59 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Insight

Tull: Every movie production operates like an individual startup company

“Each film is like a startup company. And has its own fingerprints and so forth.”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 20:08 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

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Legendary received a $7M newspaper advertising bill for one Hangover movie

“And I think we got a, Seven million dollar bill on one of the hangover movies for newspaper display ads.”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 26:58 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Disclosure

Tull rejects the 2-and-20 VC model to build an AI holding company

“So the thesis is basically, it's a holding company. It's not a fund or a, you know, a two and 20 model. It's an operating company. And in the middle of it is Tolco Labs, in which we have a bunch of incredibly talented folks in machine learning and AI and data …”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 56:50 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Disclosure

Tull: Tulco will not expand to 40 portfolio companies

“So that's why, you know, I don't think we're going to end up with 40 companies because it's, each case is pretty unique, and you want to make sure that you can check those boxes.”

Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 ▶ 1:02:01 #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull	May 28, 2019	56m

Thomas Tull

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