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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Yeah. So what's the next big disruption here?
A It's a great question because, you know, the internet, it's going to be tough to find one that's going to be as big as the internet was a disruption to entertainment, like it was to many things. Right. Um, I think it's going to likely to be less likely to be in distribution and be in creativity. And, you know, some AI, certainly part of it, virtual production, certainly part of it, uh, the way people can create, uh, will, can take things to a whole different level than they were, you know, every, it's moving very fast too. Um, and I, I'm not afraid of AI, and I hope creators aren't afraid of AI, because I actually think it's going to make great tools to tell stories even better, and make it possible to make movies they couldn't before. Um, and I, it not meant, won't likely displace the things that humans are very particularly good at. Performance, emotion, uh, writing, all the things in the writing and the, in the performance. But things like, uh, The technology it takes to de-age an actor, those tools have moved so fast now, that first is five years, when we did The Irishman, that technology was about probably thirty million dollars of the budget was just the technology to do the de-aging, and it was very disruptive to the production cycle, you know, what actors had to put on their face and all that kind of thing, extra camera rigs, all kinds of different things. Today we can …
AI assessment note: “I think it's going to likely to be less likely to be in distribution and be in creativity.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q You have taken a slightly more Nuanced approach where you're not taking the very expensive broadcasting rights of a sport, but like you did on F-One, you create a documentary behind it, and it works just as well. Would you like to elaborate as to why you did that and more thoughts around that?
A Formula One is probably the best example of the theory playing out. For me, I believe that big sports, cricket in, in India, the NFL in the United States is, those leagues are so powerful. The, the consumer demand for them is so high, they should get all the money. So whoever's delivering it, it's just a distribution business. Should be very, very low margin just for distribution only. So if, if I had that game and then next week I lose it and it goes to the next person, that audience, that whole audience can go from here to here. So at the end of the day, I don't know why you would lose a lot of money on a sport because it's, you'll never get to the place where it's profitable. So, and you probably can't make enough profit on everything else that you could lose too much on that sport. So one of the tests for, for me was to what you just described with Formula One, we built this show called Drive to Survive. Formula One is very popular around the world, but weirdly unpopular in the United States. We, people didn't know the sport. They didn't know how it works. They didn't know these people. It's play, it's race, the races are in the middle of the night. So, um, it just never got popular. So we did this documentary series. What I loved about the sport and why I thought it'd make great television. It's, you know, beautiful people doing dangerous things in beautiful places. You kn…
AI assessment note: “Formula One is probably the best example of the theory playing out.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Do you think that's a good idea? Having co-CEOs? I'm just like.
A It's very odd. It's odd that it doesn't, because it doesn't work in many, there's a lot of stories where you can look back and, um, there were, uh, three co-Roman emperors that didn't go very well. Uh, But if you look back at the track record of the co-CEOs and it's spotty, uh, but I think where it really works well here is we do two very distinctly different things. We manage two different, distinctly different cultures inside the business with tech culture and entertainment culture. We're even physically in two different places in California. Um, and it enables us to be, to bring out the best in ourselves in the, in the things that we do. Provide technical guidance and inspiration for people in an area that we're not Where we have our sea legs. Um, and I think it helps for recruiting. Uh, people want to work for people that know what they're, you know, what they're doing in the area that you're coming to work for us on. Um, so, and, and, and I think it doesn't, it may not work at every company that does what we do even, because I feel like the company is inherently free of politics. Um, all the things in the culture deck that we're not, Greg and I wouldn't backstab each other in the back for this job. Um, we both want this thing to work forever. Uh, the same way I didn't want Reed to leave. Yeah. So, um, so I really think that it'll be, uh, it uniquely works at Netflix and it…
AI assessment note: “I think where it really works well here is we do two very distinctly different things.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.45
Q Would you say something differently if you could manifest no cameras around and you could imagine that they didn't exist?
A I think I, I think I would. I mean, I think, I think I would be material, maybe say things materially different, but I, but, um, But I am aware of it. And so which changes the dynamic of the situation. So, so I think that because we're having this conversation and because it's being filmed, um, and it's going to exist on the internet for a long time, uh, that people, you know, people will be slightly guarded. And so then therefore I know that when I see anything on the internet, on television, anywhere that is slightly manufactured, slightly guarded. And every once in a while, when you see something that is not, It's a, it's, it's a marvel. It's a revelation when you see something that is authentic and real.
AI assessment note: “I think I would. I mean, I think, I think I would be material, maybe say things materially different”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q He's no longer active, is he? Like when I spoke to him last year, he was more like retirement phase.
A Yeah, he just recently stepped down from executive chair to chair of our board. So he's very helpful all the time. I, you know, we call him regularly for advice and input. I went and visited him at Powder Mountain a couple weeks ago, and I just had a board meeting with him last week. So he's, he is an unbelievable resource. But, um, but at the time I wasn't sure if he was a crazy person or if he was the next coming. So He, um, he kept calling though and said, you know, we, you should come work here. We were good. We're going to do exciting things. And I said, look at, I'm this, you just got me at a bad time. And he said, why is that? And I said, I went, I described what was happening at my current job, which was the, we had bought another company. They were both in very bad shape. And, uh, and I was, I was renegotiating all my deals with the studios and all these things. And he said, this is classic greed. He goes, it sounds like they really need you there. And I go, yeah, yeah, that's what's going on, really. And he goes, well, they need you in third world countries feeding starving children. Why aren't you doing that? Well, that's true. I started laughing and I said, I'll take the job because I liked them. I liked that. I liked that approach. So that was my beginning. And Reed had started the company, um, with this vision to get there. And at the time they were doing all kind…
AI assessment note: “he just recently stepped down from executive chair to chair of our board.”
Not addressed raw tape
D 1 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 1.70
Q What chemical is Netflix catering to when you're watching a 10 hour show?
A I think if our common references as a culture are memes, that's depressing. To me, they're throwaway, cause they're throwaway. You know what I mean? You wouldn't know, people of a certain age don't even, don't, won't even know the things that you and I were talking about tonight. So I, I feel like what's great about it is, is that we're getting into their soul, getting into their heart, getting into their, you know, into the, into their own experience. The way that you think about a movie that you grew up with, the way I remember seeing Jaws at 10 years old in the movie theater, people screaming, popcorn flying in the air. That's, that's part of who I am. And that's what we're trying to, we're tapping into that.
AI assessment note: “we're getting into their soul, getting into their heart”
