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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Alamo Drafthouse CEO Shelli Taylor on going back to the movies

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Decoder, Nilay talks with Shelli Taylor, the CEO of Alamo Drafthouse. Shelli stepped into her new role as CEO during the pandemic. In this conversation, Nilay and Shelli discuss the steps she had to take to get her company back on solid ground — including justifying high fixed costs of expensive lightbulbs — and how the government has failed to manage the pandemic effectively for business owners. They also talk about what it will take to safely reopen theaters and what the future looks like, especially in the streaming age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you arrive in the all-new Toyota Crown, every entrance becomes a grand one.

0:06.0

With an available hybrid max power train that says,

0:09.0

you always arrive fashionably on time.

0:12.0

Style that says, emphasis on the fashionably.

0:15.0

And presence that says,

0:18.0

you speak softly and everyone listens.

0:21.0

Introducing the Toyota Crown, the car that says so much.

0:26.0

Toyota, let's go places.

0:30.0

Sometimes running a business can feel like swimming upstream.

0:34.0

In Siberia.

0:36.0

With a bear clinging onto your leg.

0:39.0

But zero online accounting software can help you manage the ins and outs of your finances in real time.

0:45.0

So you can keep them running smoothly.

0:47.0

Soon it will feel more like you're going down a water slide.

0:50.0

In a rubber ring.

0:51.0

Or being serenaded by a string quartet.

0:57.0

Search zero with a mix.

0:59.0

Because healthy business is beautiful business.

1:01.0

Hello and welcome to decoder.

1:03.0

I'm Neili Patel, editor in chief of the verge.

1:05.0

And decoder is my new podcast about big ideas and other problems.

1:10.0

Today we're talking about a big problem that needs big ideas.

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