Silicon Valley

So, and they're like, we got this guy, Alec Berg.

He just did Silicon Valley.

So we think you guys should get together and come up with an idea.

So that's like how that, that's how Barry came

The first is, you know, you talk about trying to solve a strategy problem through articulation.

It reminds me of this hilarious soundbite from the HBO show Silicon Valley, wherein Gavin Belsom, who's basically portrayed as like a combination of a Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, is running this giant company called Hooli, says, I don't want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place better than we are.

And it just sort of like speaks to the banality, right, of like all the tech companies just having this like superfluous, make the world a better place, you know, sort of like meaningless positioning.

And I think there are similar versions of that to your point with agencies of just like laddering up to the largest sort of, you know, sort of generic position.

And so you can train a model.

And people may be familiar with the Silicon Valley HBO show, Hot Dog, Not Hot Dog.

It's that times 1,000 more complexity.

And so is this meals and entertainment? Is it travel? Is it office supplies? Whatever.

But in the meantime, he's directed so many different projects.

He directed Insecure and Greenleaf, Grown-ish, Silicon Valley, Mixed-ish.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Black-ish.

He's basically directed all the issues.

So, um, I think that in the beginning it was really like just trying to be hired, but what I've always wanted to do was comedy and drama, which is, you know, fortunately what I've been doing since like 2021, a little bit of both, which is pretty rare.

And then also anything that kind of walks the tightrope of tone, like... you mentioned yellow jackets like that episode i did it has like comedy drama it's got a little bit of action it's got some surreal stuff you know like like i'm getting to use all the kits in the direct all the tools in the director's toolkit because for me it's like i've done shorts i've done features i've done documentary i've done music videos i've done commercials and like i feel like that's I love to be able to put those things into play.

Like, like when I did Silicon Valley and it just so happened that like, you know, they decided to do this like promo for, it was called Russ Fest in the final, final season.

And they were like, we're going to shoot this thing.

And, you know, the corporate leaders of the 80s and 90s mostly went to University of Pennsylvania and Harvard and Yale, and they were taught the Ben Graham textbooks about securities analysis, and they were taught management in a very textbook way.

The leaders of today in Silicon Valley were schooled on John Malone and Jeff Bezos.

And in those two examples, John Malone recognized that he was in a land grab.

He had to buy every mom and pop independent cable system in every region of the country in order to actually build something that could eventually become profitable.

Now you have Meta and Muse.

What do you mean 25% profitability? What are you thinking? It's the worst possible thing you could say.

And I know on the show Silicon Valley, it was, you know, there's a caricature, Russ Hanneman, who gets, he has to hang up the phone when he hears people talking about revenue.

No revenue.