The Wisdom Wall

“you can, um, you can idiot-proof your business, but then you're gonna end up with a business full of idiots.”

“this is not a family. This is a sports team, a high-performing sports team. He goes, you know, you wouldn't throw your brother out. He said, but there's no shame of getting cut from a great team. You could, a lot of great athletes get cut from a great team”

“So this idea of, you know, authentically local storytelling being the most globally valuable is unintuitive, but totally true.”

“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.…”

“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 fact, what AI is doing today is like the antithesis of imagination. It's taking, it's giving you the most predictable outcome, uh, based on these kind of rough ideas you're giving it.”

“the ads only model doesn't support the kind of ambitious content that we, that we put on.”

“I think it, or maybe it's just aspirational that they seek life, work balance, but there's no such thing. It's an exercise in futility to try to chase it. In fact, it's probably, you're probably shortchanging one or the other all the time.”

“If you had one copy in the thousands, there was all over the United States. They'd all make money. So that was this kind of idea. And then Netflix became this kind of national footprint inventory. So we can support very small niches and then, or even more important, they could roll up small niches into big ones.”

“You'd think the worst thing would be a list of a hundred movies, but the worst thing is a list of a thousand movies. Yeah. So, but actually a curated list of five is unbelievably valuable.”

“I think that like a documentary particularly is something the way it fails mostly is a short that should have been a feature, a feature that should have been a short, uh, just picking the running time that's appropriate to the story you're telling.”

“Well, first of all, I think the we're trying to do is figure out, I think the right first path is to get into work for one of the agencies. Like, uh, CAA, UTA, these, uh, agencies who represent talent management. Um, you learn more about the business in six months than anyone could teach you, whether you could learn…”

“I think they really like crime because they're, um, puzzle solvers, problem solvers. They were trying to try to solve a puzzle. I think it's very built into our DNA to figure, figure things out... So I actually think people are very curious and that, that true crime scratches a puzzle itch that people have, but yeah,…”

“The reason it's so hard to predict is because sometimes it changes because of what's happening in the culture, and sometimes the exact opposite. Meaning that because things are so X, because things are so black, people really want white now. Or because everything's black, everything must be black. So I, I do think that…”

“I look at things that happen on the TV that compete for time on TV, and games are definitely a part of that.”

“I don't kid myself, but like a lot of, like what you said, I think, uh, it's most, it's a, it's the chair and people want to be whoever's in the chair.”