A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.
I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.
There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.
It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
I know one business, and that's how to make software.
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.