Simon Kim
@thesimonkim
hollywood is cooked. memo below
introducing Camp Studios. in a world of gpt wrappers, we're on a mission to disrupt a 100+ year old industry.
Made in 48 hours. Best team in the world Tap in 👇
Hollywood doesn’t know what’s coming. The Billion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding In Plain Sight: Full memo linked in bio 🔗
the next harry potter is currently being made by some kid in iowa with a camera and a few friends IP/Worldbuilding is the most underrated asset in the creator economy Taste, speed, and infrastructure are going to matter so much in the next 5-10 years If you study film history…
I'd put our team against anyone else in the world. in the past 9 months we've: 1. Sold out a 1200 person film festival 2. Partnered with the Government of Switzerland to fly out 100 creators 3. Produced commercial productions with Coca-Cola, Spotify, Notion, etc Honestly, if…
We asked ourselves: What if we built Sundance for the Internet? We put our heads down and got to work & 365 days later we pulled it off. 1200+ attendees 12 internet-native filmmakers 20+ speakers & workshop hosts The Internet > Hollywood #hollywood #CreatorEconomy #film
3 months ago our team pulled off the impossible. I cry every time I re-watch this video. Camp Studios produced 9 shorts, 1 feature and sold out a 1200 person film festival in <100 days. It was so fucking hard. Naivety is a gift. Keep marching.
The biggest secret I've learned about creating billion-dollar companies is that the best ideas look like bad ideas at first. If everyone agrees with you, you’re too late.
4 years ago there was all this hype around "investing in creators" startups raised millions trying to get % of adsense or deal-flow the issue is that model only works with creators that treat making videos like a business (beast, dude perfect, etc) the true way you invest in…
This is Braxton Haugen. He only has ~6k followers on insta+youtube. Looks like he's been making videos for ~6 months. I think he's gonna be huge. Will be fun to see what he does in real time!