My dad has always been a huge proponent of study things that will make you think as opposed to study things that will make you think a certain way

Which I think is a really interesting sort of takeaway and he was a philosophy major before he ended up getting a going and doing a business degree at Columbia but really laying the foundation of thinking and learning you using philosophy as a way to actually jumpstart your minds about questioning things and

thinking through really complex ideas that you're really not going to get a chance to do that again

other than being in college in that environment. I'm going Gunn, and welcome to the future podcast. Today's guest is what smart people will call a

veritable polymath. He runs three companies that each connect to a different facet

of the entertainment industry and he runs them well, securing about 50 to 60 media deals per year and that is a lot of deals

He and Chris discuss both the business and creative sides of entertainment and give us a nice peak into the world of filmmaking.

And when I see a peak, I really mean that they go incredibly deep,

like nuts and bolts of what it takes to produce a film.

It's pretty eye-opening to hear about how all of it works.

They talk about how Netflix deals work. I'm looking at you Tiger King. The value of

never-ending curiosity and why you should learn how to play the orchestra and not just the instrument.

Also, there is some light swearing in this episode, so heads up if there's kids around.

All right, grab some popcorn, put on your best listening ears, and please enjoy our conversation

with Matthew Helderman.

Matthew, thank you very much for doing this show with me.

For people who don't know who you are, can you introduce yourself and tell them what you do?

Sure. So my name is Matthew Elderman and I run three companies all in the media and entertainment business.

The first is a company called Buffalo 8, a production, and a post-production company.

So simply meaning we create content and we finish and deliver content to distributors.

The second is a company called Bondit Media Capital.

We're a media financing company.

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