008 Hollywood Blockchain Party with Jesse Berger

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 Links: Jesse Berger: www.linkedin.com/in/jesseberger00 | instagram.com/jesse_berger KMO: en.padverb.com/kmo | @Kayemmo Comments? Join our Telegram channel: t.me/padverbpodcast