Jon Epstein
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So next year, I'm sure we'll spend more per show.
So far, to date, it's been $143 million.
That's right.
And the building of the platform itself.
So Ascendian has about 110 employees.
Okay.
And I think we've got about 15 or 20 positions open right now.
About a quarter of those are focused on Ascend, a quarter on Aware, a quarter on the, maybe a fifth on the hedge fund business, and then the remainder are focused on our core platform and then just general G&A.
So I'm not a founder of Cine, and I was their headhunter, and then I joined the CMO, and then now in this international role.
So the company was founded in 2007, and the founders were Anton Blondeau, who's our co-chairman, Babak Hojats, who is our CEO, and then the third founder was Adam Chayer, who went on to be the head of Siri.
Hey, what you're seeing today, we haven't seen anything yet.
The world will not be recognizable from a technology standpoint 10 years from now.
And some would even say five.
Things are changing so quickly.
And I think I forget who it was that said this recently.
It was Mark Cuban.
The words for trillionaires will come out of AI.
That's right.
You know.
I'm not the founder of Cineon, so that won't be me, but maybe some of the... You have some equity though, right?