He seems to have done a pretty good job of negotiating his contracts with respect to owning a lot of his model IP moving forward. Still needs to find a platform/pub moving forward of course but far from starting from scratch.
> Much of FiveThirtyEight’s vital intellectual property — such as the election forecast models — is merely licensed to Disney. The license term for these models expires with my contract this summer. I still own these models, and can license or sell them elsewhere.
This is one hell of an agreement to have with your employer. That was my next question given that most of FiveThirtyEight was Nate's own work, and he had very good insight to have an escape hatch.
I really hope to have the power to do this one day.
Isn't this what the Skype guys pulled off with Microsoft too?
Disney wants the talent. It’s just not as valuable to them as keeping Nate happy
They're also not just after "entertainment IP". In fact I'd say they are one of the premier proprietary data analytics orgs with respect to park management, fast passing, queuing. Same with Market Research on film/animation, they've quite literally been doing it since it's been a thing.
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2023/abc-news-struggle...