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MercurysBall2 ago

Relativity Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_Media

Relativity Media is an American media company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2004 by Lynwood Spinks and Ryan Kavanaugh. The studio was the third largest mini-major globally until bankruptcy on July 30, 2015. Its full-scale film studio acquires, develops, produces and distributes films. The company's partners and financial institutions have invested $20 billion as of 2012 in entertainment investments with partners such as Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and others.

On July 30, 2015, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York after lawsuits and missing loan payments.[5][6][7][8] The company emerged from the bankruptcy in March 2016,[9] but in May 2018 it filed for bankruptcy once again.[10] The studio remains open for business and is now being operated by its new parent company UltraV Holdings.

The studio was founded by Ryan Kavanaugh and Lynwood Spinks in 2004 as a middleman company arranging multi-film slate deals with studios then arranging financial support through banks. Relativity Media would receive film equity, producer's credit and a fee. Initially, Stark Investments, a Wisconsin-based hedge fund, funded the company's single-picture business. By 2007, these investors stopped making movie-finance deals. Elliott Management, a $16 billion New York–based hedge fund run by Paul Singer, then took a minority share of the company plus access to around $1 billion in capital and a revolving credit line.

In 2010, Relativity Media ventured into India with the help of Asian billionaire Keyur Patel who also owns two major TV Networks and has major investments in India in satellite, theatre chain and media productions...

On January 6, 2016, Relativity Media acquired Trigger Street Productions. Owners Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti were given the roles chairman and president of Relativity Studios, respectively.[35] That March, Spacey announced that he would not accept Relativity's offer; Brunetti's position is still in place.

Keyur Patel https://unreasonablegroup.com/initiatives/unreasonable-at-sea/portfolio/keyur-patel/

He is a Chairman and founder of Fuse Global one of Asia’s leading multi-billion dollar media and entertainment funds focussed on developing organizations that are focussed on innovation, technology, media and social change holistically.

..Unreasonable at Sea is an experiment in the power of entrepreneurship to solve seemingly intractable social & environmental challenges. We are an accelerator program for entrepreneurs who desire to take their ventures into new international markets. ..

..A Grand Partnership - The founder of the Unreasonable Group + Unreasonable Institute, and the co-founder of Stanford's d.school have teamed up with Semester at Sea (a study abroad program run on a ship as it sails around the world) to run the first program of its kind. Ever.

https://www.semesteratsea.org/2013/04/26/daniel-epstein-reflections-on-our-unreasonable-experiment/

The following is a personal reflection by Daniel Epstein, founder and director of Unreasonable at Sea…..

..We welcomed 20 mentors to sail with us for stints as long as a month– from the Prince of Saudi Arabia, to the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the founder of WordPress, and TIME Magazine Heroes. We collaborated with executives from some of the largest multinationals on earth, including Microsoft’s Innovation Studios and the Innovations team at SAP. And most notably for me, we set sail with a mix of over 630 undergraduate students from over 250 universities.

MercurysBall2 ago

Daniel Epstein at the Singularity University https://su.org/mentors/daniel-epstein/

By the time he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy, he’d already started three companies. In 2012 he was recognized by Inc. Magazine as a “30 under 30 entrepreneur” and by Forbes as one of the “top 30 most impactful entrepreneurs” of the year.In 2013, he received the prestigious “Entrepreneur of the World” award along with Richard Branson & the President of Liberia at the Global Entrepreneurship Forum. Today, this passion for entrepreneurship and startups has led to the creation of Unreasonable Group ( www.unreasonablegroup.com ). The vision of Unreasonable Group is to create a collective family of companies that will, together, put a dent on the seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges of this century.Daniel is proudly the founder of many Unreasonable companies including the Unreasonable Institute, Unreasonable Adventures, Unreasonable.is, Unreasonable at Sea, Unreasonable Capital, Unreasonable Media and the Girl Effect Accelerator. Daniel believes in militant transparency and truthfulness in his everyday life and in all of the projects he is part of. He also has an overt love for his hometown of Boulder Colorado and for his dog, Kaya.

Re Singularity University:

https://voat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3698903/22841880

It was founded in 2008 by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil at the NASA Research Park in California, United States. CEO, Rob Nail.. Peter Diamandis is also co-founder and vice-chairman of Human Longevity, Inc., (HCI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the human life span... HLI purchased Lifebank USA in 2016, located in New Jersey, "a leader in placental and cord blood banking along with its high-yield method for extracting placental stem cells." Cord and placental blood tissue provide high quality DNA from mother and newborn for genome sequencing. HLI plans to start offering its newborn genome sequencing product along with stem cell banking. It may already be doing so.

Rob Nail discusses Sophie the Robot https://youtu.be/y5O48ixN36A

Voat post: Jeffrey Epstein told a journalist he funded Sophia the robot, who he claimed would have 'more empathy than a woman'