The startup Protégé combines elements of MasterClass and Cameo to match would-be stars with mentors. Recently, an aspiring sitcom star (day job: writer) requested virtual tutelage from ”Seinfeld” ’s Jason Alexander.
. The site launched in February, with specialists in music and acting, and recently added painting and sculpture.
Protégé is the brainchild of Jackson Jhin, a twenty-seven-year-old from Houston. Growing up, he wanted to be a rock star, he said the other day, but “the only music contact my parents had was my piano teacher.” In high school, he joined the jazz band and played heavy metal. “I probably practiced guitar and other instruments, like, five, six hours a day,” he went on. “Did the whole YouTube thing. But I was never able to get in touch with the right person.
A few years later, he co-founded Protégé with the entrepreneur Michael Cruz; both cared about what Jhin calls “democratizing access to opportunity.” Cruz grew up in Guam, and had struggled to break into startups. “It wasn’t a skill gap,” he said. “It was an access gap.” Cameo’s C.E.O. became an angel investor in Protégé and introduced Jhin to a well-connected Bitcoin influencer; eventually, Lionel Ritchie andinvested.
All well and good, but how about a test run? Recently, an aspiring sitcom star requested virtual tutelage from Jason Alexander, a Protégé investor and an Expert. The protégé taped himself performing a monologue from the “” episode “The Marine Biologist,” in which George Costanza describes rescuing a beached whale. Four days later, Alexander sent back an eleven-minute critique.
The protégé reached Alexander by phone and confessed to being a journalist. “I had a strange inkling that perhaps you had not quite amassed your first professional credit in the industry,” Alexander conceded. He’d had about fifteen submissions on Protégé, he said. “Admittedly, the average struggling actor doesn’t have the hundred and fifty bucks to forgo.” But he believes in mentorship.
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