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Dan Castles and the twenty-ninth door
Twenty-eight firms turned down his startup idea. One said yes. Nearly three decades later, Telestream’s co-founder is still working on what comes after the introduction.
Pi Design Makes the Business Card and the Bigger Picture
From dancewear to aviation, this California studio follows a brand across catalogs, websites, photography and video. Its most revealing design lesson starts with two housecleaning business cards.
George Strompolos
George Strompolos is the co-founder and CEO of Promise, a Venice, California studio built from the ground up for the generative AI era to produce films and series. He co-created the YouTube Partner Program in 2007, founded the creator-economy giant Fullscreen in 2011, and sold it to AT&T/WarnerMedia in 2018 in a reported $845M deal. At Promise he is building MUSE, a production workflow platform that threads generative AI tools through the filmmaking process, backed by Peter Chernin's North Road, Andreessen Horowitz, and Google's AI Futures Fund.