Assistants Vs Agents - What is happening in Hollywood?

Warner Bailey built a 100,000 person community by making fun of the most powerful people in Hollywood while sitting at a desk ten metres away from them. In this episode of The Black Hoody podcast, host Luke Girgis sits down with the founder of Assistants vs Agents to talk about the broken economics of entry level entertainment jobs, how a meme page became a media company now repped by UTA, and whether AI is about to wipe out the very audience Warner built his business for.Luke Girgis and Warner Bailey go deep on the real numbers behind assistant pay in Hollywood, the business model paradox of building a company for people who can't afford to pay you and what UTA representation actually unlocks.Luke Girgis is the founder and host of https://theblackhoody.com, a Substack publication and podcast for senior executives in the music and comedy industries. Luke Girgis also runs Be Like Children, an artist management company, and has spent 20 years working as an artist manager.Warner Bailey is the founder of Assistants vs Agents (AvA), a meme page turned media company that has partnered with Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Amazon MGM Studios, Apple TV+ and more. Warner was previously a talent agent assistant at WME and worked in touring at Live Nation.