Gale Anne Hurd (Film and Television Producer) - Producing a Career from the Ground Up

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 18 April 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Acclaimed film and television producer Gale Anne Hurd knows what it takes to build a career from scratch in a tough industry. Hurd describes her path from entry-level roles in the entertainment industry to becoming a leader in the Hollywood community, based on taking chances, making yourself indispensable and staying committed to what you love.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.2	It gives me just such extreme pleasure to have Gail Ann Hurd here. Gail is a good friend of mine
0:26.1	and an absolute powerhouse in Hollywood. If you've seen Terminator T2 aliens, the, let's see,
0:35.8	the abyss, or if you're a current Walking Dead fan, you have seen Gail's work.
0:42.3	I am the coolest parent because my freshman daughter who is a huge Walking Dead fan, Gail hooked her up with some swag and meeting John Bernthal, one of the actors a couple weeks ago.
0:53.3	So I'm like the coolest parent on the planet all because of Gail.
0:57.4	So besides having her enable me to be the coolest parent on the planet,
1:02.1	she has some amazing things to tell you about her career.
1:05.0	And rather than listening to Meetalk, you want to hear from her.
1:07.2	So I turn it over to Gail.
1:09.3	Thank you, Heidi.
1:19.5	Thank you, Heidi. Yes, I'm a Stanford grad.
1:30.8	I graduated about 35 years ago from the farm. As you probably know, none of this existed back then. So I actually, I noticed there's a Harvard Westlake shirt here.
1:35.7	I actually went to Westlake School for Girls back before it was emerged high school.
1:42.5	But then my family moved to Palm Springs. Palm Springs had a huge high school at the time.
1:48.4	We did not have college counselors because only 20% of the graduate of Palm Springs High School
1:55.4	at the time, which is 1973, went on to college.
2:01.0	And the two things, as you see on the slide,
2:04.2	that they had in common was back in the 70s.
2:08.3	Both had a mascot of the Indians.
2:13.5	Palm Springs High School is still the Indians today,
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