It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.
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I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.
You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.
As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.
Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.
It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
So it takes years to make a solid company.
Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.
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