Joey Carson

Which was really the, I always tell people I kind of did my entrepreneur career in reverse, because I worked in the corporate side for 10, 15 years.

So that was really the first foray into being an entrepreneur, so to speak.

And the motivation was, at the time, I had a lot of responsibility at Fox, and I worked on a lot of great projects there.

But I wasn't running the entire business, right?

I wasn't in charge of sales or distribution or marketing or those sort of things, even though I was responsible for a lot.

And I always had this thought in the back of my mind, I really would like to see if I can run an entire company.

And so they trusted me and I went over there.

And it was interesting at first because there were...

At that time, there was kind of like just a couple of shows going on.

There wasn't like this unified, there was in various degrees of the company.

So one of the goals I had was I wanted to turn it into a studio.

And so I tried to, and I think successfully with the help of the people there, brought some kind of the best practices that we had on network broadcast television and films and things like that.

And so we,

worked together and created kind of like functional processes across the entire company.

The other thing that I wanted to do was I wanted to make sure that when I went in there that I didn't bring in people from the outside.

Because when I got there, there was tons of talented people.

From creative executives to producers, casting people, editors, camera people, like all of this.

And they had actually...

effectively invented the way reality reality television works so I thought you know how can we work together to kind of put this so it can scale like let's think beyond just having a couple of shows what if we have a show on every network let's have a cable show let's have a network primetime show let's have a daytime syndicated show let's do documentaries right all of that sort of thing so um

It took a little while.