Cannes

Depressed because he'd done everything right.

He'd had a falling out with a business partner that threatened to, quote, if I didn't go up to her hotel room at the Hotel de Cap in Cannes where I was selling a film.

Great success for her company that I was running.

She said she would call TMZ and tell the reporter that I raped her and she would ruin my life.

It's just beautiful.

So he has projects in Bahamas, Maldives, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and he has also a, a small project in Cannes, and I didn't know about that.

In Cannes?

Big heads statues.

A bit also creepy, but I'm gonna go to them.

Ocean

... a nice ocean, he might be there.

And we have to go to Cannes.

already camped out.

I'm already at Cannes.

I'm already at

Sundance.

You're so right.

When I think about Cannes, so much of the conversation was around these creators who were developing short form content, and now they're getting into sub stacks and creating this longer, deeper experience for their consumers and long form content.

Whereas those that started on Twitch originally have been doing the long form version of this stuff for much longer, and I think their community is a lot stronger because of it.

Matt, one way to think of this is that emotional connection comes from the amount of time that you spend with a creator.

So let's do things that help our creators, help them find more audience help them build greater community and compete on offering the best live streaming experience.

It's funny, I can remember the day.

It was seven years ago when I was in Cannes, 2019.

It was the first time I really got into the Twitch experience in one of your rooftop villas or apartments.

say that there was, you know, which is rare, apparently.

This is not like Cannes, where they give, you know, 12-minute standing ovations, but they did have a standing ovation at the end, and...

And, in fact, there were several times where I had that feeling that I had not had in, I don't know, ever, where the audience is laughing so hard that they miss the next line.

And, you know, it's no one on stage.

And it's a term that's been coined in You know, from my background in emergency medicine to combat time in Iraq and military service, was a commander at Andrews Air Force Base, award-winning Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, and then certainly a lot now with even some TV and movies.

I was executive producer for the Bruce Dern documentary that debuted at Cannes in May, so I got to rock the red carpet at Cannes.

So it's kind of a wide variety of... fun challenges I've had in my life.

And I came from a very rural small town, middle of nowhere, Western Nebraska.

So he said he was humiliated in France, but then he found somebody to finance a tiny bit of money that was enough to get the film made.

He was lucky enough to have the film go to Cannes.

And the day after it premiered, he sold the film to 20 countries.

So it went pretty well after it

went

to Cannes.

So people, it

got generally positive responses.

So I remember finishing the Oceania's in – where was it that year? Brisbane, I think.

Yeah, and then jumped straight on the plane to – Nice, and we had a four-day – I stayed near Cannes, however you say it, near Nice for four nights and then flew all the way back again just to go there, get some photos, ride around with the guys and get my new bike and then fly home.

So that was kind of a – felt like a massive overkill, but –

Was this team built off any other team or was it just a- Completely fresh.