Chris Duncan

occasionally sharing thoughts on creators, storytelling, and the future of media.

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

@aidann319 Absolute legends right heee. Some of the best in the game!

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

@thesimonkim @grok why this guy so cracked at making videos ?

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

@n0w00j @thesimonkim

[Simon Kim @thesimonkim]

hi tech twitter

last year, we made a movie

this year, we're telling your story

[Max Reisinger @Maxbrsee]

Camp Studios 🤝🏼 Notion

Creator-led campaigns hit different.

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

The internet makes culture alive and recursive.

This means ideas don’t sit still. They mutate, remix, and constantly fold in on themselves.

This creates endless layers of reference and reinvention.

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

@thechangj That would be us

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

The cold email I sent to the founder of DreamWorks Animation

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

Startups Aren’t Just Software Now. They’re Studios.

If you look around, the smartest tech companies don’t just build products.

They craft narratives.

And ironically, those are the ones raising the most money, even when the product isn’t fully there.

They drop trailers. Tease launches.
Build anticipation like filmmakers.

Because in today’s world, distribution is product.

Markets ebb and flow.
But attention is always scarce.

And in a market flooded with options,
your ability to tell a compelling story becomes the core differentiator.

Right now, everyone’s looking for someone to make their launch video.
Everyone’s playing the attention game.

In that sense, startups have begun to operate like studios.

And the smartest studios?

Most Hollywood studios are stuck in outdated legacy systems.

The smartest studios of the internet-era?

They think like startups.

[Max Reisinger @Maxbrsee]

Hollywood doesn’t know what’s coming.

The Billion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding In Plain Sight: Full memo linked in bio 🔗

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

Hollywood had a century to get this right. But the internet changed the rules.

Distribution is now free. Discovery is decentralized. Yet studios are still built like it’s 1995 —
top-down,gatekept, closed-loop.

We've cracked the code.
Memo drops later this week.

#Hollywood #film #Internet #investors

[Simon Kim @thesimonkim]

I'd put our team against anyone else in the world.

in the past 9 months we've:

1. Sold out a 1200 person film festival
2. Partnered with the Government of Switzerland to fly out 100 creators
3. Produced commercial productions with Coca-Cola, Spotify, Notion, etc

Honestly, if we had to build a cement company I bet this team could pull it off

It's been the craziest journey of pivots, limitless conviction, and lifelong memories.

What a privilege.

Camp began because I was a lonely creator who had just dropped out of college and wanted friends.

What followed was a set of twists & turns that led us to discovering the most undervalued asset class in the creator space --IP & Franchises.

We're building a whole new model ground up. From producing, distributing, and even building the next Sundance - the entire pipeline needs to be rethought.

It's truly David vs Goliath and sometimes feels like no one sees what we do

but even if we're early--we'll be ready.

[Chris Duncan @buildbychris]

We asked ourselves: What if we built Sundance for the Internet?

We put our heads down and got to work & 365 days later we pulled it off.

1200+ attendees
12 internet-native filmmakers
20+ speakers & workshop hosts

The Internet > Hollywood

#hollywood #CreatorEconomy #film