Jesse Berger is a media and technology entrepreneur and also, a movie producer whose six films, combined, have generated over $850 million worldwide.
In this eclectic conversation, KMO and Jesse discuss:
01:20 – Studying film and getting into the biz
03:30 – What a film producer does and what the "executive" label means
06:20 – 'Oblivion' (2013) and why a graphic novel may be turned into a movie before getting published
13:20 – Why some movies credit dozens of producers
16:00 – The 2008 crisis, Bitcoin, and the dawn of the iPhone era
19:05 – Fast-forward to 2017: smart contracts and using the blockchain to increase transparency in the film industry
28:05 – Going "lower in the stack" and the genesis of the PKT network
33:15 – Decyphering the eclectic lingo: waterfall payments; IoT
34:25 – True proof-of-work vs premining
40:40 – Fostering an on-chain reward mechanism for sending and receiving data
43:20 – Smart contracts, the code-as-law paradigm, and the possible future of the legal profession
48:00 – Linking media production and distribution; evading the gatekeepers
51:25 - How the PKT network would work
54:05 – Similarities with other providers and the zero-base-price philosophy of the project
55:50 – Why speed issues are endemic in the industry
1:00:05 – Building the gig economy of internet sharing
1:09:05 – The real-world utility value of the blockchain
Jesse Berger:
www.linkedin.com/in/jesseberger00 |
instagram.com/jesse_berger
KMO:
en.padverb.com/kmo |
@Kayemmo
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