Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
Maybe I just have enough black friends in Hollywood, but in the past few years, the following shows from black showrunners all made the cultural zeitgist on broadcast tv: Blackish, Empire, How to Get Away with Murder, and Bob and Abishola; and on on cable&#x2F;streaming: Atlanta, Insecure, Power, Dear White People, Lovecraft Country, and I May Destroy You. (Note, I am friends with some of the writing staff and crew on several of these shows, so I am aware that I am not representative of the general public.)<p>And that doesn&#x27;t even include anything on BET, or shows with black executive producers or showrunners but which were based on existing IP or were from non-black creators, like LA&#x27;s Finest, All Rise, The Neighborhood, or the Shondaland shows.<p>And really, the big elephant in the room is BET. Which does everything you want to do, but it already has the connections to the black creators, and the black audience, and the black investors.<p>So it kind of seems like this is another SV startup that was created without a critical examination of what the market actually is beyond hoping to be potential acquisition target for an actual player (in this case, presumably BET).