{"id":16973,"date":"2023-05-24T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=16973"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:43:35","slug":"jeffrey-katzenberg-still-proud-of-quibis-abortive-moonshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=16973","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Katzenberg: Still Proud of Quibi&#8217;s Abortive Moonshot"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<pre>@Jeffrey Katzenberg on American Masters<\/pre>\r\n<p>Three years after the demise of the streaming service Quibi, its founder Jeffrey Katzenberg says he is still proud of what he did. <br \/><br \/>In an interview with LinkedIn\u2019s CEO Ryan Roslansky, the former Disney\/Paramount\/DreamWorks executive said, \u201cI\u2019m humbled by the failure. But I\u2019m proud that what we tried was a moonshot.\u201d He added that \u201cowning my failures is as important [as], or actually more [important] than owning my successes.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Katzenberg, in collaboration with Meg Whitman, had raised some $1.75 billion to set up Quibi, but the service failed to attract the subscribers it needed to sustain itself.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anylength.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/spiriva-inhaler.html\">buy spiriva inhaler<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> The entrepreneur, who had been fired as head of Walt Disney Studios and who once headed up Paramount Pictures, was also the co-founder of DreamWorks Animation. Whitman, now the US Ambassador to Kenya, was formerly the CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anylength.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/chloroquine.html\">buy chloroquine<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br><br \/><br \/>Quibi, which had about 200 employees, opened in April 2020 during the height of the pandemic. It closed six months later, having attracted only 710,000 subscribers, far shy of its hoped-for 7 million.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anylength.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/estrace.html\">buy estrace<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> Quibi (for \u201cquick bites\u201d) offered a streaming service that promised short content to subscribers for $4.99 per month with ads and $7.99 without. Several months after its closure, Roku bought the service\u2019s assets for less than $100 million.<br \/><br \/>In his interview, Katzenberg also reflected on his earlier career at Paramount, in which he was bounced about from one project to another. \u201cIt frustrated me and in some instances really pissed me off, but I always felt I was growing,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAs long as you feel like you\u2019re learning and you\u2019re growing, just go with it. And then they made me president of the movie studio.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Katzenberg added, \u201cWhatever job I got \u2014 and it didn\u2019t matter whether it was to go get a cup of coffee \u2014it was very simple: just do better than they thought I was gonna do. And I realized that for people that I worked for, the more I exceeded their expectations, the rewards came.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Jeffrey Katzenberg on American Masters Three years after the demise of the streaming service Quibi, its founder Jeffrey Katzenberg says he is still proud of what he did. In an interview with LinkedIn\u2019s CEO Ryan Roslansky, the former Disney\/Paramount\/DreamWorks executive said, \u201cI\u2019m humbled by the failure. 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