The Business of Being Yourself: How Creators Build Sustainable Empires

MONDAY, JUNE 8
11:30-12:00pm
Tribeca X Main Stage
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Michelle Khare transformed her YouTube channel into a full in-house production company and a show she petitioned onto the Emmy ballot. This session explores how she approaches brand partnerships as true creative collaborations, why she chose to build everything internally, and what the next generation of creator businesses looks like as the lines between independent production and traditional entertainment continue to blur.
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Michelle Khare

Creator and Host of Challenge Accepted
Daredevil Michelle Khare lives life to the extreme by taking on intense physical and mental challenges in her award-winning docuseries, Challenge Accepted. Michelle has attempted everything from Harry Houdini's deadliest magic trick to surviving a week at FBI Academy. Michelle hopes to prove through her content that with enough hard work, perseverance, and failure, anything is possible.

Chris Rosen

Moderator (Deputy Editor, The Ankler)
Christopher Rosen is deputy editor at The Ankler and co-host of several podcasts and shows, including Prestige Junkie and Monday Morning Quarterbacks. He covers awards season and the business of consumer entertainment, and his commentary on the Oscar and Emmy races is widely followed across the industry and other media.