How I Built My Small Business - Ross Jacobson - Is Pivoting into Entertainment at 29 Madness? Uncover How 3311 PRODUCTIONS Turned a Tape-Librarian into a Producer in Just Four Years!

Ross Jacobson - Is Pivoting into Entertainment at 29 Madness? Uncover How 3311 PRODUCTIONS Turned a Tape-Librarian into a Producer in Just Four Years!

03/26/24 • 40 min

Ross Jacobson is the co -founder CEO of 3311 Productions, a company of film lovers who take movie making seriously, but not themselves.
Ross went from the entry level job as tape librarian at Magical Elves, the producer of Top Chef and Project Runway, to leading the company in just four years. Ross is a film industry veteran who has brought films to Cannes, Sundance, Telluride, Berlin, Toronto, and Comic -Con, and has been a part of Emmy and Peabody winning TV shows.
3311 Productions has produced many films including In A World , The Assistant , Brigsby Bear , and many more.

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How I Built My Small Business - Ross Jacobson - Is Pivoting into Entertainment at 29 Madness? Uncover How 3311 PRODUCTIONS Turned a Tape-Librarian into a Producer in Just Four Years!

Transcript

Ross Jacobson (00:00.238)
What are people wanting to watch? We go through these cycles creatively of like antihero in dark, Ted Lasso and escapism, behind the curtains of the rich and famous. There are these cyclical things going on and you have a film that happens to be ready at a time when the consumer climate is wanting the thing you made and you can have a lot of success.
Anne McGinty (00:27.918)
Welcome to the 13th episode of How I Built My Small