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Ben Dobyns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So basically I had a really terrible experience with Hollywood distribution back in 2008.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

They made our film, made a lot of money for the company and they didn't pay us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So kind of turned around and said, well, this doesn't make any sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Uh, the last statement that we had from them was, uh, after a couple months, they owed us 30 grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

They continued to sell the movie for another two years and we never saw a dime and forgot another statement from them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Uh, that was, they were the sole distributor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So, um, I, unfortunately we just didn't get the numbers from them after that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

But, um, we basically saw nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Oh man, I'd have to go back and check the contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

It was eight years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

All right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So what happened?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

They didn't pay you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So they didn't pay us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

I was putting together the investment plan for the next film.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And in the film industry, the pattern or the process is we put together what's called comparables, where we show other films and how they've done.

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