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Ron Howard

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“Challenge and the fun is discovering which items from that ever expanding toolbox can help you refine your singular vision and get it out into the world for your audience to enjoy. I'm Reid Hoffman. Thanks for listening.”
2024-07-04 · Masters of Scale · Ron Howard: Evolve your vision (Encore) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every creative leader has to walk the tightrope of being true to their vision while also delivering something their customer will love. And that tightrope is being constantly buffeted by crosswinds from changing tastes to changing tech. The challenge is to harness these changes to bring that vision to life. This is something Ron has managed a great effect with his use of technology through his career.”
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“Impact is democratizing access to filmmaking just as audiences are becoming open to newer things. Something wrong was struck by when his recent film Thirteen Lives came out. The film follows the rescue of a junior soccer team who got trapped in flooding caves in Thailand in twenty eighteen. Ron had a realization when he was driving to a test screening of the film.”
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“Suddenly, people from outside the Hollywood bubble could share their visions with like-minded creators and have their pitches seen by industry professionals.”
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“Initially, impact was focused on giving people the skills and space to make their visions a reality. But then, the CO and impact, Tyler Mitchell, came up with an idea for expanding its scope.”
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“It's a challenge every scale leader faces the moment they need to entrust others with making their vision a reality. Feeling discomfort at the prospect is actually a good sign. It shows you are still invested in that vision. For Ron and Brian, scaling means empowering others to realize their own visions. In twenty twenty, they launched Impact, a boot camp for aspiring film professionals.”
2024-07-04 · Masters of Scale · Ron Howard: Evolve your vision (Encore) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You said scale, which of course is like a Pavlovian bell for me. What were some of the kind of lessons and unlock of getting Imagine a scale?”
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“There is no innovation without risk and experimentation. And it's one of the things, the reasons why I wanted to kind of capture that part of the journey. Arrested development was part of imagine's expansion into TV with hits such as 24 Friday night lights and felicity. Their output was a driving force in elevating television as an art form and a greater diversity in voices. The focus over recent years has been scaling their vision so others can carry it forward”
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“Closed down after a little more than a year. Though it was a failure in business terms, it was undoubtedly an idea ahead of its time, predating YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok. It made Ron and Brian think about new ways to realize their vision.”
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“Those friends included big hitters like Eddie Murphy and Jim Carey. But despite the A-less names and the Hollywood experience of its founders, pop dot com struggled.”
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“Together, they founded pop.com as a platform to stream what they called pops of entertaining quick hit videos. After raising investment, they set about working on the content.”
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“Bet paid off and imagine was making hit after hit for the big screen. Meanwhile, the emerging potential of a new medium caught Ron's attention”
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“Even though it was making hits, Imagine was a small company and making movies is expensive. Meanwhile, its investors wanted quick returns. The stock market crash of nineteen eighty seven didn't help matters. So in nineteen ninety two, Ron and Brian made a deal to take the company private again. It was a chance to win back control of the company and refocus on their vision.”
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“Technology, the platform, and the medium are secondary to your vision. This is why Ron and Brian are careful not to get caught up in worrying about tech that isn't immediately relevant to their objectives.”
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“Notice how Ron is very specific about how the tech needs to serve his vision. Whatever the technological changes the entertainment industry goes through, putting humans at the center is paramount.”
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“This is one of the delights of being a visionary leader. When you have a team who you can communicate with, they'll come back and delight you with how they made your vision a reality. Ron's experiences on cocoon and willow helped shaped his attitude to finding new ways to bring his vision to the screen”
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“Ron couldn't see the path to realize his transformative vision for that shape-shifting marsupial, so he trusted Dennis to help him achieve it, albeit with a tech Ron couldn't quite comprehend at the time.”
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“Problem How to morph a possum into the actress Patricia Hayes, helping Ron to solve it with special effects legend Dennis Murin.”
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“Ron would have a similar experience with cutting-edge special effects technology on a fantasy film he made a few years later.”
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“Fortunately there was an expert on set to help Ron interface with that new tech. Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston of the famed effects company industrial light magic or ILM.”
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“Despite their distribution difficulties, Ron Bryan and the imagined team had been racking up the hits. One was nineteen eighty five's cocoon, which told the story of alien technology transforming the lives of a group of retirement home residents.”
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“No distribution partner meant they'd struggle to get their movie seen. Fortunately, one of their advisors, entertainment lawyer, Tom Pollock, had just made a career shift to become head of Universal Studios”
2024-07-04 · Masters of Scale · Ron Howard: Evolve your vision (Encore) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're back with Ron Howard to see more from my interview with Ron, visit MasterScale dot com slash YouTube Before the break we heard how Imagine's distribution partner was making demands that threatened Ron's ability to realize his vision of creating human centered, entertaining, and artful movies. So Ron and his partner Brian Grazer put their vision first, ditching their distribution partner.”
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“This is another skill visionary leaders need, the ability to say no to request from powerful partners if they take you away from your vision. It was obvious to Ron and Brian that their distribution partners' demands would detract from their vision of making character-driven impactful stories. Without a distribution partner, Ron and Bryan may be free to make films that reflected their vision of the art form. The only downside would be no one else could see those films. Find out what Ron and Brian did after the break.”
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“Expanding for movies into radio, leaping their vision off the silver screen and soaring across the airwaves in a millions more homes across America, even the world. Surely this was an exciting opportunity to scale their vision.”
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“As a creative leader, you'll always have to face unexpected outside forces that may undercut your ability for delivering your vision. They might be as bland as a change in interest rates, or as unexpected as a disgruntled New York cop in your ventilation system. And that's where your expertise as a visionary will be most needed, especially when the challenges keep mounting up as they did for Ron and Brian. The next challenge to imagine business model came from their distribution partner. These were the people responsible for getting Imagine's films into the cinemas.”
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“Before moving on, I want to assure you that Ron Howard, the nicest man in Hollywood, is in no way bitter at Bruce's casting”
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“Ron and Brian felt like they'd built a future-proof model for scaling their vision, but then they were broadsighted by an unexpected upset, the kind that crawls barefoot through air ducks and yells Yippy Kay”
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“Ron's a master of movie making, and here he's also being a master of modesty, because I would argue that personal taste plus self-belief was his secret formula. In fact, it is the formula that can make a vision into a reality. In order to achieve your own unique vision, it needs to be guided by your own personal taste and values and driven by your belief that you can make in a reality. Thanks to the huge success of Splash, Imagine was one of the hottest production studios in Hollywood. So within a year Ron and Brian raised funds with an IPO so they could rapidly scale their vision for creating modern, human centered stories that spoke to their generation of movie goers.”
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“Ron and Brian saw each other as force multipliers, helping each other bring their visions into being. So in nineteen eighty five, shortly after Splash was released, they decided to officially pool the resources by co founding Imagine Entertainment.”
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“When I talked to Brian, his side of the story was so compelling that we're dedicating an entire master scale episode to him coming soon. Both Brian and Ron had the will to push forward with their vision. In 1982, they brought to life the comedy set in a morgue titled Night Shift, starring Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler. The film was a low key success. Ron and Brian then set their sights on a project Brian had been trying to get made for years. The story of a man and a mermaid who fell in love titled Splash. Splash lived up to its name and was a massive hit.”
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“It's usually a bit harder to forge a trusted professional connection than simply yelling out your window at a passerby. It's one of the reasons I built LinkedIn. But this was nineteen seventy nine sometime before the rise of online social networks. So Brian took a more conventional approach to making a connection with Ron.”
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“Bron sealed the deal with Corman and agreed to star and eat my dust. Ron and his father then co wrote a script called Grand Theft Auto. It centered around a madcap car journey across the desert. This was more Corman's kind of movie, so he agreed to make it with Ron as lead actor and director. Grand Theft Auto came out nineteen seventy seven and it was a commercial success. More importantly, it established Ron's filmmaker credentials and set him on the path to making his vision of becoming a respected, independently minded director a reality.”
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“Ron saw that helping Corment adhere to his vision of movie making would, in the long run, help Ron realize his own. For Ron, this was the only thing that was important.”
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“It's unsurprising Corman turned down'tis the season when you consider some of the titles of his movies. Conquered the world. A bucket of blood are two of my favorites. But although Corman didn't think'tis the season fit with his stable of B movie genre flicks, he was impressed with Ron's vision, so he asked Ron to write another script, this time more in line with the King of Colt's brand”
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“That legendary producer and director Roger Cormann, known as the King of Cult Cinema, and maker of low-budget cult classics of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Ron read the script for Eat My Dust.”
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“One of the scariest scenarios for any leader is looking back and realizing you missed the opportunity to realize your vision. This is why waiting too long to start making your vision a reality is dangerous. It actually increases your chances of failure. The really successful leaders jump at the right moment to bring their vision to life. They don't see constraints as things that limit their vision. Rather, they see constraints as handles to pull themselves closer to making their vision a reality. At the time, it was beyond most people's imagination that a twenty something sitcom actor could direct a movie. So Ron got creative.”
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“You'd think, growing up in Hollywood, would be a perfect launch pad for Ron to achieve that long held vision. And while Ron continued his acting success in adulthood with his starring role as Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days, his progress as a filmmaker was stalling.”
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“Despite the technical challenges, Ron realized his vision for that project, which was to bring to life for his classmates the very real, very human, yet very distant, story the Great Depression of the nineteen thirties. The project was also part of Ron's more long term vision to be a filmmaker.”
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“During each viewing of the film, Ron had to constantly adjust the projector's dials as he intently focused on matching the sound with the picture.”
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“Ron was in high school in the late 60s and early 70s, and of course digital cameras were the stuff of sci-fi. Ron shot his project on a small film camera. When it came time to show his class, he ran the film through a bulky projector while his narration came from a separate tape recorder.”
2024-07-04 · Masters of Scale · Ron Howard: Evolve your vision (Encore) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is Masters of Scale. I'm Reed Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, partner Greylock, and your host. Wanted to speak to Ron Howard because he's continued to bring his vision to life in film and TV through a range of monumental changes. Since starting out as a child actor in nineteen fifty five, Ron has seen new technology, audience tastes, and styles of filmmaking come and go. As a director and producer, he has a remarkable ability to maintain his vision of creating captivating and deeply human stories. He's delivered this vision through a range of genres, from heartfelt comedies like the breakout hit splash to the stunning visual effects of Apollo thirteen and the biographical drama of a beautiful mind. Ron has also scaled his ability to deliver his vision through imagine entertainment, the production company he co founded with Brian Grazer. For an early example of Ron's ability to deliver his vision, we need to go back to his high school days and a bold proposal he put to his history teacher.”
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“Iran started looking for ways to make his vision a reality, even though it meant navigating his way through an ever-changing film industry in which yesterday's child star can easily find themselves as tomorrow's squeegee sling That's why I believe your unique selling point is your vision, and you need to realize and refine that vision amid constant change. You gotta have incredible talent at every position. There are fires burning when you're going home.”
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“Probably on YouTube somewhere. Spoiler alert. I couldn't find it on YouTube. Ron could have kept banking checks for washing invisible cars, but instead he kept his focus on his vision to be a filmmaker.”
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“Ron pushed through the embarrassment and conjured up a pinto, a rag, and a tub of turtle wax in his mind's eye, and got down to some serious buffing.”
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“As it was only the addition and not the actual shoot, Ron took the lack of a car in stride. Then he discovered another glaring omission.”
2024-07-04 · Masters of Scale · Ron Howard: Evolve your vision (Encore) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That struggling young actor is Ron Howard. Through his childhood he'd become known for his roles as a wholesome all American boy, but as an awkward adolescent, he'd take any role he could get. So when he landed an audition for an ad for the Ford Pinto, he jumped at the chance”
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