Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Leads $27 Million Funding Round For Payroll Startup ‘Wrapbook’
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s
WndrCo is forging onward.
Wrapbook,
Michael Ovitz.
Paylocity founder
4S Bay Partners.
The software startup was founded in 2018 and officially launched last year, enabling production companies for film, TV, and commercials to handle back-end logistics for employees and contractors. The Wrapbook platform facilitates staffer onboarding, timecards, payroll, and insurance. The company says it is used by the likes of noted digital purveyors like
CollegeHumor and
Ali Javid, who previously served as VP of business development at 3D body-scanning software startup
Body Labs, which was acquired by
Roku Lands Rights to 75+ Quibi Shows, Will Stream Them for Free
Quibi lasted only seven months as a standalone serviceTony Maglio | January 8, 2021 @ 6:38 AM Last Updated: January 8, 2021 @ 7:10 AM
Roku/Quibi
Roku and Quibi have officially struck a deal that will send 75+ Quibi shows to the streaming device’s The Roku Channel. They’ll be made available for free.
Technically, following an internal restructuring at Quibi, Roku acquired Quibi Holdings, LLC that’s the company that holds all of Quibi’s content distribution rights. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
One does not need a Roku device to access The Roku Channel. It can be downloaded for free on mobile devices, which is exactly where Quibi was originally conceived to be consumed.
In 2019, save a few health and human services professionals, no one anticipated a new year gripped by a global pandemic.
We were in the dark about Broadway dimming its lights and film projectors lying fallow. We couldn’t have imagined the Emmys being doled out by Hazmat-suited gofers. We might have expected the continuation of Rudy Giuliani’s precipitous fall from grace, but the triple whammy of Four Seasons Landscaping, the “Borat 2” debacle and the “My Cousin Vinny” meltdown defied the forecasts of even our most seasoned seers.
I certainly wouldn’t blame you, then, for taking issue with any kind of pop culture prognostication for the year to come. And yet, it is my charge to observe the tea leaves, watch the stirrings of the crystal ball and auger to the best of my ability the world we are about to inherit. Here are 21 absolutely on-the-mark predictions about what’s coming our way in 2021.