He's a bit of a sponge, and with the efficient nature of an L.A. movie exec for whom time is money, he has created a system of outsourcing learning, arranging meetings with intellectuals in which they download their wares into his brain as one might schedule a massage or a haircut.

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Exec - Real-time part-time work done via mobile phones.

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Long-time broadcasting industry exec Lucille Salhany.

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Given this strategy it is only a matter of time before some studio exec decides that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck would be an even better Butch and Sundance, or that Casablanca would be fresher with Colin Farrell as Bogart.

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Exec has streamlined its technology so that the wait time to get an answer for a job request is just two minutes, Kan says.

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Exec, the errand startup, has spent the last year building out its real-time mobile gig service.

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