Feb 23
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
Most entrepreneurs think the hardest part of building a company is the product.For Jim McKelvey — co-founder of Square — the hardest part was the system around the product.Because Square wasn’t just competing with other startups …It was competing with regulations, middlemen, entr ... Show More
1h 11m
Jan 2024
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework
Over the past 15 years, filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Selma, Queen Sugar) has become something of an institution in Hollywood. As a writer, director, and producer she’s worked to make our industry more just and diverse—creating opportunities for voices that have historically been under ... Show More
1h 8m
May 2022
Ava DuVernay is Triumphant
Before Ava DuVernay became the first Black woman director to win Sundance and get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, she was a publicist with a little hobby, a big dream, and a lot of patience. Adam talks to Ava about how she turned her side gig of filmmaking into a brilli ... Show More
35 m
Jul 2023
Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr: Gabrielle Union on Sharing Knowledge and Gaining the World
<p>Gabrielle Union has been a beloved actress since the '90s, but she's also a social justice activist, a co-founder, a best-selling author, and now an executive producer on projects such as her new BET docuseries <em>My Journey to 50</em> and her recently released film <em>The P ... Show More
40m 17s
Aug 2023
AVA DUVERNAY - Writer / Director
<p>SEASON 2 - EPISODE 52 - AVA DUVERNAY - WRITER / DIRECTOR</p> <p>On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we sit down with writer and director Ava DuVernay (WHEN THEY SEE US, 13TH, SELMA) for a lively conversation about her career and her craft. Ava credits her early love f ... Show More
1h 6m
Apr 2024
Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr: Our April Cover Star Sydney Sweeney on Producing, Elevating New Storytellers, and Diving Into Horror
<p>Sydney Sweeney returns as Who What Wear's first repeat cover star! Make sure to check out her experimental, surrealist cover story <a href="https://www.whowhatwear.com/fashion/celebrity/sydney-sweeney-immaculate-interview" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>—you ... Show More
45m 54s
Oct 2018
133: The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas (The Seduced Episode 2)
Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one of the attendees, a young female screenwriter named Frederica Sagor. Sagor would go on to pen one of the frankest memoirs of 1920s Hollywood, revealing the systematic sexual exploit ... Show More
42m 2s
Jun 2023
#676: David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney for $4 Billion, and Much More
2h 33m
Dec 2023
Brit Marling: Writer, Director, Showrunner, and Actor
<p>Before becoming an entertainment powerhouse, Brit Marling was headed toward the world of investment banking. But during a college internship at Goldman Sachs, her gut told her that finance wasn’t the field she should be in. With a desire to tell stories, she soon pivoted into ... Show More
1h 7m
By her early thirties, Ava DuVernay was already a successful entrepreneur, having founded her own film publicity agency in Los Angeles. But after years of watching other people make films, she started to get an itch to tell her own stories onscreen. Ava's first films were rooted in deeply personal experiences: growing up with her sisters in Compton, performi ... Show More
<p>Madison Utendahl is the founder behind the all-female, Black-owned, anti-trend branding and design agency, Utendahl Creative, behind brands like Simon Huck’s<a href="https://utendahlcreative.com/Judy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Judy</a>, Halsey’s<a href="https: ... Show More
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