John Frye

They just try and get like really kind of high caliber speakers.

So for that reason, she was picked to speak at Drip University.

And, you know, she we also used her, you know, she was has that big following.

that she was able to help um share the show but it wasn't like you know oh hey let's get this person with this huge social media following it was more of actually dripper university wanting her as a speaker for the students and then after the show was aired she was you know picked to be on featured on there and then she helped uh you know share it on social media and whatnot

Yeah, so first of all, this is a pilot show, so I know that Empire is pretty new as well.

But I think it's somewhere between $225,000 and $500,000 is the norm for a new show, so I think we were on the lower end of being on the norm in the beginning.

So, you know, we were getting lower...

lower ratings than expected.

And we were thinking of different ways of, you know, pushing the show and getting more viewership.

The cast was trying to think of different ways that we could reach out to people that we knew that weren't

So the whole point was to showcase Draper University to the world.

Draper University, it's a crash course boot camp for entrepreneurs.

right and we wanted to show the world that hey you can you can do this it's all about inspiring the potential and entrepreneurs and take

Better and more, yeah.

So we wanted more applicants.

And of course, we would love to...

Have the high quality, high caliber entrepreneurs as well.

Absolutely.

Badu, Yik Yak, lots of things.

Yeah, so for me, it's all about my startup, man.