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Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.
Troy Carter
Music
First
Year
Spend
Hundreds
Consumer
Because
Spotify
Dollars
Actually
Services
When I started Atom Factory, the idea was to do something small yet powerful. That name resonated with the mission.
Troy Carter
Atom
Something
Small
Factory
Idea
Powerful
Name
Mission
Started
It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters.
Troy Carter
Music
Great
Quality
Money
Made
Own
Down
Living
Sold
Records
Make
Masters
Because
Deal
Always
Lot
Sell
Artists
Much
Your
Who
Whoever
Nearly
It's more important to have the one million diehard fans than to have 54 million people who aren't necessarily fans, or they might have liked one thing you said or one video.
Troy Carter
You
People
Fans
Important
One Thing
More
Liked
Said
Than
Diehard
Might
Video
Who
Thing
Million
Million People
Necessarily
I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.
Troy Carter
Will
Those
Will Smith
Carrying
Guys
Records
Smith
Up
Grew
When we look at transportation in America, there's going to be companies like Magic Bus, where you have these private bus fleets. You're going to have carpooling; you're going to have these different types of transportation. It's going to be a full ecosystem, but it's not going to be a winner-takes-all.
Troy Carter
You
Types
Magic
Like
Ecosystem
Look
Private
America
Going
Where
Different
Bus
Full
Transportation
Companies
Different Types
Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors don't have a fan base that just follows them around. With musicians, the fan base just goes everywhere they go.
Troy Carter
You
Musicians
Build
Few
Everywhere
Characters
Follows
Exceptions
New
Most
Around
Go
Goes
Just
Different
Movie
Fan
Fan Base
Different Characters
Them
Each
Base
Actor
Play
I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor.
Troy Carter
You
Old
Believe
Think
Too
Mentor
Never
New
Schooled
New One
Getting
Your
Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.
Troy Carter
You
Learning
Old
Same Thing
Too
About
Something
Never
Wrong
Schooled
Same
Being
Your
Thing
Pulled
I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.
Troy Carter
Art
God
You
Creative
Writing
Those
Stay
Data
Songs
Arts
Being
Away
I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.
Will Packer
Sky
Dream
Dreamer
Vivid
Color
Feel
Like
Limit
Really
Full
I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.
Will Packer
People
Somebody
Films
Definitely
Television
Impact
Variety
Feature
Feature Films
Could
Make
Content
Greater
Forefront
Proud
Continue
Want
Creating
Who
Wide
Wide Variety
Levels
When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.
Will Packer
Quality
People
Programming
See
Higher
Forces
Content
Options
Want
I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game.
Will Packer
Game
Money
Strong
Always
Go
Up
Going
Bigger
Against
Movies
Muscle
Need
I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.
Will Packer
Business
Own
Controlling
Engineering
Destiny
No Intention
About
My Own
Having
Had
Knew
Always
Passionate
Intention
Being
Producer
Film
Set
We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.
Will Packer
Good
Together
Out
Telling
Independently
Distribute
See
Online
More
Color
Take
Put
Like
Commercial
Story
Products
Film
Need
Filmmakers
I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.
Will Packer
Myself
King
First
Partner
Own
Young
Other
Broadcast
Andrew
Some
About
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
My Own
Network
Excited
Rob
African-American
Businessmen
Including
Hardy
Luther
It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.
Wyck Godfrey
Women
Important
Directors
Push
Hiring
Agenda
I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.
Wyck Godfrey
Guess
Tell
Always
Been
Just
Stories
Naturally
Inclined
As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh.
Wyck Godfrey
People
Dinner
Kid
Laugh
Telling
Make
Always
Trying
Stories
You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.
Wyck Godfrey
You
World
Thought
Spend
Out
Adult
House
Learn
Real
Were
Get
Childhood
Wanting
The Real World
Real World
Then
Your
Away
Things
Start
There are very few movies that become real phenomenons the way 'Twilight' or 'The Hunger Games' did.
Wyck Godfrey
Become
Few
Way
Hunger
Hunger Games
Real
Very
Did
Movies
Games
Twilight
Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.
Wyck Godfrey
You
People
Young
Seem
Something
New
Like
Know
Does
Fresh
Going
Young People
Derivative
Things
Because of the 'Twilight' series, our company gets every speculative piece of fiction from people hoping for the next 'Twilight,' and so you read them, and they all kind of wash over you after awhile.
Wyck Godfrey
You
People
Every
Our
Kind
Hoping
Over
Piece
Read
Because
Gets
Fiction
After
Them
Next
Company
Wash
Series
Twilight
Awhile
Speculative
The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move characters about.
Aaron Ehasz
Great
Characters
About
Animators
How
Artful
Models
Move
Artists
Working
Right
We have a wonderful head of social media and community, Danika Harrod, who has a knowledge of community that's really authentic, and she just loves connecting with people and she's very empathetic to what fans might want.
Aaron Ehasz
Knowledge
People
Wonderful
Fans
Social Media
Community
Head
Empathetic
She
Very
Authentic
Just
Want
Loves
Social
Might
Really
Who
Connecting
Media
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