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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q Yeah, talk, talk, before we talk about the economics of that business, tell us what was, what was that business? You launched it in 2010.
A Sure. So that business was Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, and, uh, the entire idea, uh, when I went to the, uh, private equity for that was, We're going to make films. We're going to release them online for free. We're going to encourage piracy. We're going to tell people to share them, pirate them, remix them. We're going to put it under a Creative Commons license. We're just going to get it out there everywhere it can go, because kind of the realization I had was each of these films, each of these episodes is its own advertisement for the next product, and we're no longer the business of selling units. We're in the business of building A sustaining fan base. Essentially using the internet for what it does best, making perfect, infinite copies of our work at no cost to us.
AI assessment note: “that business was Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, and, uh, the entire idea”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q Okay. And so what happened? How'd you get some money raking in?
A So, basically, the message was so crafted to the audience, we'd watched for 10 years as fandom had tried to save shows that they loved, and we'd watched Hollywood and the studios and the networks not care, kind of, with, uh, with Farscape, with, uh, Veronica Mars, with, uh, Firefly, with, uh, Jericho. Uh, you can kind of go down the list where fans put immense effort into saving these shows, and the metrics didn't make Since for Hollywood. So what we did was kind of go straight to that sense of disempowerment and provide a message to the fans that said, you are empowered now to keep this show going if you love it. And luckily we made a good enough show that people loved that they took that empowerment and ran with it. So based purely on fan contributions via a PayPal button on our site, we made back our entire production budget in a year. We paid our investors back.
AI assessment note: “based purely on fan contributions via a PayPal button on our site”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Okay, got it. Alright, so what happened? They didn't pay you?
A So they didn't pay us, and, uh, I was putting together the investment plan for the next film and in the film industry, uh, and the, the pattern or the processes we put together was called comparables, where we show other films and how they've done and was working on that and kind of realized that it made absolutely no sense that the entire process of funding independent films is based on obfuscating the fact that independent films, you're going to lose your money if you invest in them. And I just had this brainstorm moment of, well, why Instead of trying to cover up that fact, why not build a new plan that actually pays investors back? So I launched a new company with a new plan in 2010. Uh, I paid my first round investors back in a year for a product that we released for free online.
AI assessment note: “So they didn't pay us, and, uh, I was putting together the investment plan”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And now I am on Kickstarter right now. I just typed in journey quest and I see season three up here, 5602 backers pledged 425 grand or almost half a million bucks. You're onto something. What happened?
A We very intentionally worked on building that sustaining fan base, which was our core business mission. Uh, each time we turn around and as they've given us more money to work with, we've been able to deliver better product to essentially kind of start from this very tiny position and growth. And every time we release it, because the fans are empowered to share it, the fan base is a little bit larger. We've had more discovery. Kickstarter's brought more fans in. YouTube has brought more fans in. And so it's just this regular growth curve up. Uh, this year alone, uh, that's not, that's not even, we've done three Kickstarters this year. We've raised over 600 grand on there. We've raised more money on, uh, our monthly Patreon campaign.
AI assessment note: “We very intentionally worked on building that sustaining fan base”
