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New Wealth Breathtaking Opportunities in the Content Industry Frontier By Andy Marken "All the heritage of a people free to dream, free to act, free to mold their own destiny." – Narrator, "How the West Was Won," MGM, 1962 For a guy who not long ago was recommending that employees work from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m., six days a week to now advocating that we make intelligent use of AI so people will only have to have a 12-hour work week; Alibaba's Jack Ma may have finally come up with the ultimate answer for the content development, distribution, consumption industry. Seriously! The content viewing landscape is getting terribly crowded and … confusing. We have pay-TV, SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, D2C. We have FA ANG/BAT (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Net f lix, Google/Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent), AT&T T V ( WarnerMedia), CBS, NBC, ABC, Hulu, HBO, Sk y, BBC, Canal+, IMDb Freedive and shortly Disney+, Apple T V + and 100s of good, bad, so - so regional, national, local streaming services around the globe. It's getting "a little" crowded out there and consumers are saturated/confused with options! Back before the great screen rush began, around 2009, a business friend, Jeff Hastings, took over as head of a cool company called BrightSign (a neat company that makes digital signage media players) and introduced us to the firm's parent company' boss, Anthony Wood. Wood had started his sixth company, hence Roku, after leaving Netflix with a cute little gimmick that allowed us to stream content to our TV.