He is a serial entrepreneur who most recently founded Jumpcut Media, a startup that is using data to democratize opportunities in film and TV.
Hosanagar is a 10-time recipient of MBA or undergraduate teaching excellence awards at The Wharton School. His research focuses on the digital economy and the impact of analytics and algorithms on consumers and society. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and a professor of marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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In the first episode of Season 3 of Me, Myself, and AI, our hosts talk with Kartik about how Jumpcut uses AI to identify creative individuals and help them develop their ideas into studio-ready productions. Read the episode transcript here. So, to help unknown talent to break into the entertainment industry, he got to work founding Jumpcut, a venture-funded startup that aims to uncover new voices. When he started pitching it to potential producers, he quickly discovered that the film industry can be hesitant to take risks on new writers and directors - which often means that diverse talent is overlooked. Kartik is a professor of business and marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School who penned a screenplay while on sabbatical. He didn’t pack his life into a sedan, drive to Los Angeles, and work a series of part-time jobs while trying to make it big in the film industry. Kartik Hosanagar wasn’t your typical Hollywood hopeful. So we are extremely surprised that this happened.About Democratizing Data in Hollywood: Jumpcut’s Kartik Hosanagar Episode
We are VERY diligent when it comes to security and password protection (not even our own team members know the actual passwords because we use Lastpass). Luckily, they only got access to our email provider and nothing else. Last week, we found out that our email provider was hacked and sent out a fake invoice to everybody on our list. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. Hi there - the good news is the invoice is not real, we did not send it, and you will not be charged anything. Vox made a video a week ago warning people that scammers can send fake emails from the WHO (if you're curious about seeing how, watch it here: ) Please let me know if you have any other questions! This is definitely a disappointing situation for everybody involved, but we're doing our best to ensure everybody that was impacted has received an answer.
It's actually not that difficult to send emails that LOOK legit (they're using the correct domain). It's certainly depressing that somebody would try to do this during a worldwide pandemic…but unfortunately, there's always going to be people out there that try to take advantage of others during shitty circumstances.
We sent out an update email 45 minutes after this happened, changed our home page to an update page (), and did our best to quickly respond to the thousands of customer support tickets that flooded our inboxes. So we are extremely surprised that this happened.