Tom Freston

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"I'm the board chair of this thing called the ONE Campaign. And we, part of that is RED, which is — we would partner with companies making products. And what we would find is that the employees would feel good knowing that the company that they work for is doing socially positive things."

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"We cast our eyes on MySpace. So, let's see what's going on over there in Santa Monica."

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"I saw this article in Billboard magazine by this guy John Lackey. He was interviewed and he was talking about this was the start of cable TV."

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"We had seen Friendster, been watching MySpace. We thought social media, this is interesting."

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"I look at A24. They're independent. They're not owned by one of these public companies and they've opened up a live venue space. They sell merchandise. They have great instincts and great taste and they continually seem to pick up projects that are low cost and seem to do really well at the box office. I said, 'Well, they're putting together a whole new model.'"

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"We had this guy Craig Kilborn on The Daily Show. He was sort of a middle of the road kind of a fraternity house guy, nice guy, but we gave Jon Stewart the shot and he said I want to do political satire. He invented fake news."

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"Like in the UK there was a show called Top of the Pops. Yeah. and people would make music videos to use on that show"

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"you see there's stuff there's things now like Patron or Substack or everything where I always... yeah Patreon rather what I would do if I was 25 years old"

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"They got into Warner Cable in in the 70s that developed this interactive thing called Cube. It was going to be interactive television, if you can imagine such a thing."

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"you see there's stuff there's things now like Patron or Substack or everything where I always... yeah Patreon rather what I would do if I was 25 years old"

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"So CNN, ESPN, US, USA Network, we were all starting at the same time. It was really the beginning of the modern what cable network business."

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"So CNN, ESPN, US, USA Network, we were all starting at the same time. It was really the beginning of the modern what cable network business."

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"HBO was had been around since '74. It was doing uncut movies and that was a big innovation and it was using a satellite which was our other innovation."

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"So CNN, ESPN, US, USA Network, we were all starting at the same time. It was really the beginning of the modern what cable network business."