Michael Guo (@Michaelzsguo) “Be like Ben Affleck: >>Share a bank account with Matt Damon before either of the” — TopicDigg

Be like Ben Affleck: >>Share a bank account with Matt Damon before either of them makes it, helping each other get through the early years.Interview >>At 25, win an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting together. >>At 28, already a Hollywood star, co-found LivePlanet with Matt and two other partners. >>Create Project Greenlight, giving first-time filmmakers an opportunity and showing audiences what making a movie actually takes. >>Earn Emmy nominations for each of its first three seasons. >>Move behind the camera. Direct Gone Baby Gone and The Town. >>At 40, win your second Oscar as a producer of Argo, a film you also directed and starred in. >>Build Pearl Street with Matt, co-producing films including Jason Bourne and Manchester by the Sea. >>Reunite to write The Last Duel with Nicole Holofcener, then act in it together under Ridley Scott. >>At 50, co-found Artists Equity with Matt and RedBird Capital. >>Become CEO. Matt becomes Chief Content Officer. >>Build a studio that expands profit participation to the crews behind the camera. >>Make data-informed distribution decisions part of the business from day one. >>Launch the studio with AIR. Direct it, play Nike founder Phil Knight, and cast Matt as the executive pursuing Michael Jordan. >>Produce, direct and star in Dunkin’s first Super Bowl commercial, too. >>Meanwhile, quietly found an AI filmmaking company, InterPositive, in 2022. >>Bring engineers, researchers and filmmakers onto a controlled soundstage to shoot proprietary training data. >>Build models around visual logic, editorial consistency and the production problems you know firsthand: missing shots, background replacements and incorrect lighting. >>Design the tools so filmmakers retain control over creative decisions. >>In 2026, sell InterPositive to Netflix in a deal reported at $587 million, and join Netflix as a senior advisor. From sharing a bank account to sharing an Oscar to building studios together. Matt has been his friend, writing partner, co-star and business partner across decades. That makes Ben’s command of AI much easier to understand. He has spent his career learning how movies get written, financed, shot and finished. Then he built a technology company around the problems he already understood.