fishman is actually such a fucking nerd that he might've just hired these bitches to play league, according to lumi there's already 8 people who play league in phase
And the saddest part of this all is that in Clown World it has turned out to be an objectively superior business strategy than nearly every other small company besides the one with Jew Gold backing it.
Remember when people thought Idol was a ponzi scheme
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Sometimes the stars align enough to turn someone's retardation into gold, his blueprint was to be like holo but once he saw what he hired and came to terms with his eye for sad women, he decided to roll with it and aside from the coffee merch the man seems to be a competent businessman. I am insanely curious about phase internal numbers though, I doubt they're in the green at all but by the looks of it they must be doing great within their projections that there's talks of gen4 even before 3 is out. I hope to god he doesn't fuck it up.
That was before the posts detailing, to put it generously, Aviel going to the razor's edge between hyping up his company and defrauding Israeli government tech grants and investors with talk of his corpo being some kind of do-all tech/vr company.
But now he seems to be making money and only broke losers who don't get returns are ever hit with fraud crimes.
Speaking of small corpos in general, I don't understand how so many drive themselves to insolvency so quickly in many cases.
The idea should have extremely low operating costs if there is only a handful of talent. These kinds of companies should be able to run for a very long time even if they don't have a lot of growth.
I think the numbers are in the green. He's doing well enough money to hire multiple talent managers, including a friend manager (does this role even exist outside of Phase Connect?), and if you want to numberfag, Pippa is occasionally among the highest-grossing vtubers for the day, and I occasionally see other talents crack top fifty highest-grossing for the day too.
There's a chance that they're in the green since the operational costs should be low considering the staff we know are working but when you include merch, handling, marketing and projects all of that would eat up a lot of money. Right now they're going hard in music production, they have something big planned for offkai according to one of the girls(can't remember who said it) and they're working on gen3's models and debuts with all of that going I highly doubt they're making a profit, they're at least breaking even to still going and expanding. Or fishman is burning a lot of money in the hopes of selling the company to some sucker and fuck off into the sunset but so far it all points into the direction of him growing the business responsibly or at least competently.
On Phase in general, given what information is around for ~500 CCV English streamers & revenue, each of the girls should be generating Net Revenue in the 100k per year already. Pippa might already be worth 7 figures. The new Gen will probably be Net Profitable after the first month, accounting for pre-launch costs. The power of getting any traction (or having advertising) does that. Phase is definitely in the green, but fishman has been rolling profits back into development. Which is the right play.
A Vtuber agency that gets at least one Vtuber to pop off is long-term viable, as long as the platform costs currently stay low. (Well, if its English speaking.) The issue is that you have to run the business as a business. Paralleling the 2010s eSport industry, however, it's also pretty clear we're in the era where it clearly attracts those not in it for actually making a viable business. The one note is that Startup Costs are going to skyrocket in the industry. While not actually a "mature" industry, Cover and Nijisanji are run by professionals with actual business experience and rapidly moved into more developed stages of an industry.
Phase can keep growing as long as they don't overleverage or take on too much debt to expand. It's not an industry where "blitzscaling" is viable. You have to actually build up a networked fanbase. That takes time and investment, not necessarily money.
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I haven't laughed this hard at anything in a while. Thank you, TVA.
gotta respect Mori producing so much music by how it sounds. Like I don't like her music (waste of a good voice) but she gets it produced on time.
Part of her already being heavily involved in the industry, pre-Hololive, is she knows the ropes a lot better. Depending structures & workflows, simply having a network of people you know can turn around Mixing, Mastering or general Production on a reasonable time scale is extremely valuable. There's a reason the quote about "80% of life is just showing up" has resonance. You can get a lot of work in whatever industry you're in by simply being clear on deadlines and making them. Trust is a very useful commodity.
One of the girls, can't remember who, said "She's basically a free psychiatrist."
While called a "friend manager", I'm guessing Fishman watches a number of sports? Because this has been a trend for a decade, at least, in the "sports development" space. Has different names. "Sports Psychologist" or "Performance Coach" or "Life Coach". Someone to manage the mental states of Publicly Performing Talents, not their technical work states.
Or Fishman has just hired an actual Handler associated with the training ground for them out of Toronto. Most of the ones that handle celebrities are associated with some Toronto psychological research facility.
