Jon Gosier
CEO
FilmHedge
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jongos/
What are three attributes that got you where you are now?
Tenacity, focus, and trust in my colleagues and staff.
What advice would you give to someone who is looking to enter the market?
Don’t be distracted by all the things you could be doing, focus on the one thing you do better than anyone else.
Pre-workday, what is your morning ritual?
I usually wake up make some coffee, cook breakfast and think about all the things I’ve accomplished recently as well as any incomplete tasks I’ve been procrastination on and any new emails or requests to respond to that came in over night. Then I rank them in order of ease of completion and knock out the easier stuff first. I do this because it’s faster to do them, and the more little things I complete, the more momentum and confidence I build to carry my through the more complicated ones.
What about your job keeps you up at night?
Well, I finance Film and TV productions up to $20 million per project. So the current strikes by writers and actors are definitely something on our mind. It will be interesting to see how it’s all resolved between them, the streamers and the studios. Beyond that the only thing that keeps me up is wondering if I did enough each day to set my staff up for success and to deliver what I need to do for them as CEO.
In an industry brimming with information, what isn’t talked about enough?
I think people in Film/TV are a little alarmist about the role AI tools will play in the future of the industry. Everyone is afraid of the number of jobs it will supposedly take. But 30 years ago people said the same thing about the Internet. And before that the personal computer. Guess what? No any job ‘lost’ was really just replaced or combined with another job. The industry evolved and even grew. Nothing was lost. I think it’s way more productive to learn the skills that will make you useful in a world where these new AI tools are available. What makes you effective and competitive as an employee is how you prepare and adapt for the future, not not how much you cling to the past.
