Ellis Jones

And these are the kind of people who watch Jeff Bezos work for years and years and years developing Amazon, and then it turns in.

They're used to, in tech...

working on something nose to the grindstone for years and years before it ever pays off.

And they see how big the payoffs can be in entertainment.

So I think they made a switch at some point to like kind of working with people who are already established in the entertainment industry.

But my deal was kind of like, we got, we'll develop our own talent.

They bought a production company, and then they started buying stuff from me that could add valuation.

Because that's another thing these tech guys do, these venture capitalist dudes, is they'll buy businesses, get it to a point where it's got a high dollar value, and then sell it.

So they think, worst case scenario, we'll buy this production company that's just doing car commercials and stuff right now, and we'll acquire scripts that we can shop around, books that can get optioned.

And even if we don't sell anything...

At some point, if we want to get out of this, this is an asset that the company has.

It's like if you owned a brewery and you got all the taps and the big whatever silos.

I don't know what they put beer in.

But anyway, I don't know.

So they offer me a nice chunk of change to write a book about basically what I've been doing for the last year.

And that's doing Tinder.

Like just writing Tinder stories.

Weird.

Just what it's like to be successful at Tinder.

Because a lot of guys...