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Build the Y Combinator of movies

Shaan pitches a startup accelerator for film and TV: give creators small funding to shoot a pilot, then hold a demo day where Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other content-hungry buyers bid on the projects.

“The way I would do this is actually like creating Y Combinator for movies. So I would go down to LA, or I think Adam was telling us Humboldt is a good area near LA where they shoot a lot of stuff. And I would basically say, here's an accelerator. You want to create a movie? You want to create a show? This is an accelerator. You come in, we'll give you a small amount of funding, and you go shoot a pilot, and then we'll have a demo day at the end where the buyers from Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu and all the others, they'll all show up and they'll get to see these pilots and you can get funded.”

Steal thisRun a pilot accelerator and arrange a demo day where streaming buyers bid against each other for the content.