Oliver Trevena
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Everyone told me don't do a beverage and everyone was right. And then I'd beg them to make me some cans and they'd be like, no, you have to make half a million cans. I'm like, I don't even know if I want to do this yet. I just want some cans.
So I want to hear their story. I want to hear the founder's story away from the product. I want to hear the founder's story of what they've done with the product and where it's at now. And then I want to try the product. If you've got a good team and you've got a good package and you've got a path to profitability, invest.
What's up?
You want the bio from me?
I'm about to lose your drop-off rate. That's about to go down. I mean, look, I grew up in entertainment, so I grew up in a town just south of London. Theatre and dance was my upbringing. found myself moving to America 20 years ago, was meant to be in music, kind of failed in music, fell into a TV hosting gig, did that for many, many years, probably about 12 years.
Yeah, 12 years of that. And then while that was happening, simultaneously started investing in companies and was, you know, kind of part of companies in different ways as an ambassador. And I just started to love that kind of
i guess the way a company grows and how you grow it and how you tell the story the same as i love you know acting and and the same thing of how you tell the story and so i started doing that kind of went well gave me the freedom to make the jump out of hosting back into acting and now at the same time the acting started taking off i've started to produce a bunch as well oh really yeah very cool so okay
Hopefully that was on the spot. No one told me I was going to have to do my own bio.
I mean, I kind of always say, because it's been my story, like, I think there are some people that, you know, luck is a massive element in our industry. And I think some people just get lucky, right? It's just any business, any industry, but especially entertainment, there's an element of luck. That wasn't the case for me. It wasn't an overnight success.
It took a grind and it was just like, keep pushing. I think you have to be your own biggest workhorse. You know, you have agents, you have managers, you have people around you. But at the end of the day, no one cares about your own career as much as you have to care. No one's going to work harder for your own career as much as you have to work.
And so I think the mistake that a lot of people make and I made early on was, you know, I got myself an agent. I got myself a manager when I first moved to the US and I was like, oh, my God, I've made it. It meant nothing. You know, I you have to be the one. knocking on doors, pushing yourself, continue to train your craft.
Just when you think you've got it, you haven't got it and you try a bit harder. And I think that's why it's like, it's really just a daily, a daily grind always. Cause as you know, as we all know, you know, you've got to be your own biggest fan.
I think for me, the same way I started to then, you know, when I founded a company, there's so many similarities, at least in my mind, the way that When you start a company, it kind of crosses over into the way that you start a movie, right? You find a script. The script is like the product.
You've got to decide how you're going to tell the story of the product, who you're going to tell it with, what the story is. There's a lot of that that goes into the industry of filmmaking as well, what I'd experienced in my world of investing and creating brands.
you know I just wanted to kind of bring that into the movie stuff obviously my hosting days I met a lot of people I've seen a lot of people come up a lot of people come down um and and met people that I like working with and I think that was it I was like more than anything I was like I want to make movies and I want to do it with people that I enjoy working with um because it is like a bubble you know you end up in I mean this year alone I've done Bulgaria I've done Serbia I've done
Budapest, Atlanta, Mississippi, you know, these aren't places that you, I mean, maybe some of them, but they're not, they don't pop up on lastminute.com. They're not the most desirable places to go and spend three months. So you've got to make sure you're with people that you like and you want to be around.
So I love making movies because I get to like build my own train set, you know, from the director to the cast, you know, you get to have fun doing it. And I think that's more important than anything. You've got to enjoy what you're doing. And normally if you create that kind of environment where people are enjoying it,
you're gonna get the best work out of people, you're gonna get the best mindset, and then you're gonna make money. And I think, you know, movie industry especially has a horrible reputation because it's a horrible industry. There's a lot of dodgy people in it. There's a lot of people, especially in the producing world, that think very short term.
You know, it's like, how can I raise the money for this movie make money and it doesn't matter if I get my investors money back because I would have made the movie. Well, the trouble with that is once you've made that movie and you've made your money, you've got to find a whole new set of investors to go out to because you've burned that current pack of investors.
So there's a way to do it differently, a way to treat it like a business before the movie's been made, like to actually do the numbers and be like, what are the chances? Obviously, no one ever knows. Nothing's 100 percent. There's risk in anything. But how do you kind of remove the risk? How do you, you know, it's pre-sale.
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