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In Hollywood, the future belongs to the writer-entrepreneur
- Retric 19y agoCreative accounting is why this does not work though standard channels. Hollywood loves to talk about sharing profit but never total revenue. A $40-million marketing blitz sounds like a great idea when they get a cut of that 40 million. Etc.
- marcus 19y agoI think that this is/will be the direction of every industry which hires people to do creative work, whether writing/hacking/design. And the only way big companies will be able to persist is to create a mechanism for launching offshoots of themselves by investing in co-ventures between current/former employees/entrepreneurs and the company.
- scruzia 19y agoAlso see Marc Andreessen's similar article from last week: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/11/rebuilding-holl.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/11/rebuilding-holl.html (as Goldstein mentions)
- ereldon 19y agothe question is, will the name of the social news site for writers and journalists be "Hack News"