Jessica Ryan

"Seeing a much wider opportunity, he asked Baidu if he could solicit other offers before accepting the $12 million (to come work for Baidu "for a few years"), and when Baidu agreed, he flipped the situation upside down. Spurred on by his students and realizing that Baidu and its rivals were much more likely to pay enormous sums of money to acquire... See more

... But now that we’re in this position and know that we have this power, what do we do with it? We already know what we can do for the stories and characters we love: #BlackHeroesMatter, the aforementioned #RallyForRose, Sense8 fans fought for a conclusion to one of the most queer and diverse SciFi TV shows ever, and were rewarded with a two-hour... See more

If you can set up a system where anyone can publish anything, and dynamically allocate more resources to the ideas that seem most promising, you're much more likely to produce a lot of surprisingly awesome output. This is important for reasons deeper than just "people are bad at predicting success"—I think there's something about surprise that... See more

Conversations with numerous Broadway producers have revealed consistent complaints: outside a few “mega-producers” with sufficient market power to negotiate independently, the League is functionally dominated by theatre owners.

The math supports this. Examining the League’s Board of Governors reveals multiple executives from Shubert (Chairman/CEO,... See more

“In my head, there was no way this was going to happen,” Bear added. “We just wanted to put out the album for the people that followed the whole process of it.”