Mike Schroepfer

Founder and partner at Gigascale Capital, a climate-focused venture firm backing physical-world infrastructure, energy, robotics, and deep tech companies. He is the former CTO of Meta, where he helped scale engineering, data centers, hardware efforts, acquisitions, and AI research, and he continues to advise Meta as a Senior Fellow focused on AI and technical talent.

YouTube Is Becoming Hollywood’s Talent Market and IP Proving Ground

TBPN’s John Coogan and Jordi Hays argue that YouTube is moving from Hollywood competitor to Hollywood’s talent market, where creator-led films prove creative judgment, production ability and audience response before studio capital arrives. The episode extends that pattern to AI policy, software and prediction markets: established institutions are trying to absorb signals formed outside their usual channels, from internet-proven filmmakers and frontier AI labs to traders and startups testing demand before regulators, studios or public markets have settled their response.

TBPNJun 1, 202627 min read