Jason Kilar
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Jason Kilar
Jason Kilaris an American businessperson and a member of the board of directors for DreamWorks Animation. He was previously an Amazon executive and the CEO of Hulu, a joint venture of ABC, NBC Universal, and NewsCorp...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth26 August 1971
CountryUnited States of America
disney drove impressed meticulous
When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace.
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History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.
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We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.
digital goods tied
When youre dealing with digital goods, you dont have to be tied to one URL.
culture impossible sometimes
Cultures are not very easy to change. They're sometimes almost impossible to change.
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There's certain things like scripted dramas that - they're either topical or such water-cooler moments that I think that they'll be consumed within 48 hours. You don't have to consume them at 9:00 at night, but you want to consume them within the first couple of days so that you can talk to your friends about it.
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We are fortunate to have collectively built a culture that matters, a brand that matters, a business that matters. It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.
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When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart, and we understand that.
consuming five four hours motion people planet spend time video work
What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.