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Simulating The Brain: Baynote CEO Jack Jia (Part 2)
SM: The infighting at Interwoven was visible from the outside? JJ: Completely. After the first time we did not get funding because of infighting, we brought in one of the investors to help resolve the issues, and that investor quickly became part of the infighting. He became the acting CEO, but Peng had a lot
Simulating The Brain: Baynote CEO Jack Jia (Part 1)
Jack Jia is a co-founder and CEO of Baynote. For eight years, he was SVP and CTO of Interwoven Inc. with executive responsibilities in engineering, products, marketing, strategy, and vision. Jack led operating systems and applications development at SGI, Sun Microsystems, Stratus, and NASA for over a decade. He is a board advisor for Santa
Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 7)
SM: Is there anything else that you want to add to this conversation? An industry which has become a large one, and which I feel would do well with stories, is the electronic gaming and virtual world industry. Do you have any thoughts on it? RM: In the past I have gone up to Microsoft
Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 6)
SM: I read your book before taking your story seminar, but when I did take the seminar what I found impressive was the level of clarity of the framework of storytelling that you present. The way you have approached the framework of storytelling is unique. I don’t know many people who have been able to get to
Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 5)
SM: “The Reader” was a commercially successful art movie. RM: Yes. Also a British film. I think it was commercially successful and it was a beautiful film. I thought that “Julie & Julia” was a wonderful light comedy with a great deal of sophistication.
Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 4)
SM: I don’t have any disagreement that the human condition is universal. What is it that these other cultures can learn from the craft that Hollywood seems to have mastered to build their own film industries? Bollywood is unpalatable for anyone outside of a segment of the Indian consumer base. RM: Let me mention two
Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 3)
SM: The film industry aspirations of the rest of the world, for example Europe, India, and China, are cultures that have long histories and great stories. RM: So does America. I think you have cultural bias. You think that the cultures of India and China are older than American culture. I don’t agree. American culture
Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 2)
SM: The film “Up” did well with more sophisticated audiences. RM: That is partly because “Up” was a family film. I think that even the more sophisticated audiences enjoyed “Up”. I enjoyed it a lot. Pixar is the most successful film company in Hollywood, and all of the creative staff from the CEO on down