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Rishi Kapoor, Founder & CEO of paus.tv - The Revolutionary Streaming Platform For Independent Creators

August 19, 2021 Rishi Kapoor Season 1
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Rishi Kapoor, Founder & CEO of paus.tv - The Revolutionary Streaming Platform For Independent Creators
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Show Notes

Rishi Kapoor is a MBA graduate and the founder and CEO of paus TV streaming platform for independent films. Rishi is an experienced professional in film distribution both UK and Internationally. A former executive at Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Disney. After many years working on distribution deals with Netflix, Amazon and Apple, he turned his attention to the independent film space, supporting independent filmmakers with his streaming platform paus.tv.

Rishi Kapoor Interview Focus

  1. Rishi Kapoor’s background - Education and background
  2. Background of creating Paus and building a live streaming service
  3. How does Paus TV work?
  4. You touched that 97% of creators don’t make any money. Can you tell us about that?
  5. Creative economy - how do you see the challenges in these areas?
  6. Film industry - Independent films - how do you see the industry? 
  7. What can you tell us about digital transformation in the film industry?
  8. IP and royalty in the film industry?
  9. NFTs and film - how do you see this?

Rishi Kapoor Biography

As a sole founder with no coding experience, Rishi launched a prototype in his room for £120 called 'watchpaus'. He on-boarded several award-winning filmmakers and within a week managed to attract 50 paying users. Whilst 'watchpaus' was a rough, throw-away prototype to validate a certain user-behaviour, it was the first time he built a web-based product and surprisingly the feedback included comments on how professional the site looked. “This taught me the valuable lesson of always attempting new skills and never under-estimating one's ability,” Rishi mentioned about this first contact experience.

About paus.tv

paus is a new video platform dedicated to supporting talented content creators and helping audiences to discover inspiring work. It is a platform powered by audiences to support great work without adverts.

With paus, filmmakers can get their content in front of an audience that embraces and supports them. Creators are invited to submit their shorts or docs to paus to share their work with a like-minded community of independent film fans. It’s free and quick to submit, and once films are live on the paus app, audiences and supporters can show their appreciation by leaving a tip.

The unique digital tipping feature allows audiences to tip any film or filmmaker they want to support - any amount from 10p to £1000+, at any time. paus is integrated with native digital payment methods, such as Apple Pay, so the process is quick and easy, and gets the tip to the filmmaker with no friction. Unlike other video platforms, the scales are weighed in the creator’s favour as they keep 80% of every single tip.

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