Q something that I love. I mean, I'm from LA, and so I met Anthony a couple years ago at this point, and the convergence of creativity and storytelling and venture was just so natural to me, and I thought it was like an incredible superpower and also entirely motivating and like an ambitious strategy. So can you walk me through the origin story and how you got together this team?
A In spring of 20, 26 to be 10 years ago that, um, I sold, uh, DreamWorks. And, um, you know, uh, I'll, I'm, I'm, I think it's safe to assume your audience probably knows more about my past than they need to, but there's one little piece of it that I think, uh, informs how we, uh, sort of got to where we did on, on, on putting WonderCo together, which is Sort of a recurring theme through every chapter of my media and entertainment career was the use of, uh, technology as, uh, for storytelling as a competitive advantage. Every, uh, couple of years there would be these new, amazing new, uh, innovations coming out of Silicon Valley. Um, and I kept coming up here to find the latest and greatest and, uh, to then import it back into Hollywood. And Steven Spielberg made Jaws. It's a great documentary. 50 years ago, he built a shark, a plastic shark and dragged it behind a motorboat. And then, you know, a number of years later made Jurassic Park. Which was really the first live action movie in which there were these digital creations that were, you know, uh, mind blowing to say the least, and certainly, um, a major evolutionary step in storytelling. So, and you know, I, I, you know, I think me in 1989, 1990, I saw a little short film called Pixar, uh, from Pixar called, uh, Luxor the lamp. And, uh, Uh, I was just so mesmerized and blown away by it. I actually first tried to hire John Las…
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