Greg Silverman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because the thing behind Battleship is there's a hundred million Battleship games in closets.
And they were trying to tap into that storyline
And when you started to look at the script, it probably wasn't deep enough into that B4, C3, you know, the game we've all played.
And we could give them some feedback that said, you may not make your box office the way you're intending.
We were very accurate when it came out.
We predicted around 75 million for North America and that's what it was.
Okay.
I can't disclose that.
Yeah, I'm surprised that they don't do more simulation.
Think about it.
If you have a $500 million fund and you're picking 10 winners, you should be estimating, one, how good the market is going to be or how good they'll be in that market.
And also, how you optimize the investments you make in them.
Yeah, well, Greg, this is what I'm saying.
Well, you know, it took a while to get the system to work and make it production ready.
So we were kind of a technology-inspired consultancy.
And then three years ago, we pivoted to software.
Now we're experiencing that kind of triple-digit growth that you would expect.
And, you know, sometimes science just takes a while.
We've bootstrapped, and then we did a round with a group called Launchpad Ventures, which was a Series A. Okay, and how much is that for?
They're pretty large.