Tom Bilyeu
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Podcast Appearances
Chat, hit the eject button.
You pull me off.
But this if people are not engaged.
But this is incredibly important.
OK, so for anybody that doesn't know my background, starting filmmaking, I only get into business because I want to make movies my way.
Spend 15 years growing businesses only to discover that the film industry completely got obliterated in that time, which is why I focus on games now.
But anyway, this starts with me going, I'm going to break into the film industry through comic books.
It's far cheaper.
It's a great feeder into the Hollywood system.
You build an audience, you tell the story, people pick it up.
Hollywood would much rather buy something that they can see and they get what this is gonna be rather than just on a pitch.
So let's start doing that.
Go in, I launched the comic book and at the time there was only one distributor on comics.
So the fact that they picked up our comic was already crazy.
And then it sold.
And they were like, oh my God, for a first time publisher, you guys, this is unreal.
You guys have done so well.
This is unbelievable.
And I just look at my bank account and I'm like, this is terrible.
What the fuck are you guys saying?