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How I learned to love millennials (and stop worrying about what they were doing
with their iPhones). op yo Gen Y in the Workforce tC RU BRD? 1 The text message
from Ashok stood out in bold block letters on the small screen of Josh Lewis s
iPhone. Am I ever, Josh thought, stufп¬ Ѓng the device back into his... Show more
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They re well suited to handle the trafп¬ Ѓc much better than we are, Josh replied.
These days it was just so much easier to download music, movies, and TV shows
how and when you wanted them. To have, as Jessica joked, old 90210 and new
90210 existing peacefully on your laptop. We d be leveraging one of Rising
Entertainment s biggest strengths, its library, in a way that gets the company out in
front of the movement to free content. All great points, Sarah had responded. But
our budget is soft right now everything is soft right now. I m not sure we have the
time and resources to throw at these channels. Josh opened his mouth to respond, but
the marketing chief cut off the discussion there and went on to her other notes. That
was the end of that, Josh explained to his friends. I guess I just expected that I
would get to act on more of my ideas, he complained, as they п¬ Ѓnished crunching
through a large order of lime cilantro chips and salsa. And that the higher ups here
would have п¬ Ѓgured out by now that the model s changing. By the time Ashok,
Jessica, and Josh had gotten down to salty crumbs, the three were in п¬ Ѓrm
agreement: Sarah just didn t get it. op yo ment and opportunity ever present TV and
п¬Ѓlm shoots on the lots, hobnobbing with industry power brokers, the inevitable
offers from competing studios, and, of course, the terriп¬ Ѓc LA nightlife. But now,
with 10 months on the job, and most of that time relegated to