Problem Solved: The IISE Podcast

On the season seven premiere of Problem Solved, we talked to Guy Primus, Hollywood executive, entrepreneur, inventor, and technology leader who's using engineering, creativity, and AI to solve problems in entirely new ways.

How do you solve problems that haven't been solved before? That that's what engineers do. Right? If I'm an engineer and I have a business degree and I, go into this creative field, I can innovate in a way that most people aren't thinking about because all they wanna do is sit on Sunset's Plaza and write a script. And you press the button, what happens to this group of stations?

Well, people saw the numbers changing in real time. And, like, you would think that people lost their minds because they've never seen it before. Right? You know? So the application of industrial engineering principles to a field that I was interested in, which is media, allowed me to stand out.

When I saw the x y z coordinates, to me, it's like, wait a minute. I can take someone's emotion at that point in time, and I can interpret what they're thinking.

I was stalking your LinkedIn page, and I noticed that you still have Paperboy listed as one of your job positions from 1981. Why? Don't miss the season seven premiere of Problem Solved, September 1.