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Lauren Selig is an American film producer, businesswoman, writer, and helper of good causes. She helps create movies and TV shows. She also works with new technology companies and advises different groups.

Early Life and Education

Lauren Selig was born in Seattle, Washington. Her father, Martin Selig, was a property developer.

For her early schooling, Lauren went to Lakeside School and Phillips Exeter Academy. She then studied International Relations at Georgetown University. She also spent a year studying at the London School of Economics, where she worked for Variety magazine. Later, she earned two more degrees from the University of Washington and Northwestern University.

Career in Entertainment and Business

After writing for Variety magazine, Lauren Selig worked as a story editor at DreamWorks in 1997. She helped develop stories for films. In 2000, she worked with a music company called Playnetworks, handling international licenses.

Working at Microsoft and Family Business

From 2002, Lauren worked at Microsoft in business development. She then joined her family's company, Martin Selig Real Estate, from 2003 to 2012. There, she was the Director of Development. She also managed the family's investments in new companies and organized their charitable donations.

Creative Projects and Film Production

In 2005, Lauren started Lala Laptop, a company that made laptop bags for women. The money earned from selling these bags went to charity. In 2009, she wrote children's books and created iPhone apps for kids called Little Lala. At that time, she was also the president of business development at IndieFlix, an online movie service.

Lauren Selig co-founded Shake and Bake Productions. She has helped produce many TV series and movies. Some of her recent TV shows include Wheel of Time. Her movies include Rocketman, a film about Elton John, and the thriller Crawl. She was also an executive producer for films like Hacksaw Ridge, Lone Survivor, Everest, American Made, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and I Am Michael. I Am Michael was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. That same year, Variety magazine recognized her as one of the "producers to watch."

In 2017, Hacksaw Ridge, which Lauren helped produce, was nominated for six Academy Awards.

She is currently advising New Republic Pictures, a company behind movies like Mission Impossible and Top Gun. She is also producing The Downslope, which is based on a script by Stanley Kubrick, and the science fiction film The Diamond Age. She is also working on the Amazon series Wheel of Time.

Virtual Reality and Investments

Besides her work in film and television, Lauren advises companies on investing in the United States. She is a partner at VALIS, a virtual reality company that won an Emmy Award for its work on "Capturing Everest." VALIS also helped TIME magazine create a virtual reality experience about Martin Luther King Jr. She has also advised the IMAX fund and worked with several cryptocurrency companies through her fund, Tangled Little Dragon.

Lauren Selig has been an early investor in many companies. These include Galaxy Interactive, A16z, Vaxxinity, Bulletproof Coffee, Colossal, 1UP Ventures, SALT, Limeade, Deviation Games, Build A Rocket Boy, Wax Exchange, Shoreditch Ski Club, Marble Therapeutics, Otoy, Pantera, and Hashgraph.

She also helps produce live entertainment through her partnership with Poets Road. She has advised Peter Jackson's company WETA and Thinkwell Group. She is an ambassador for Reefline and serves on the board of the X-Prize Foundation, which supports big challenges to benefit humanity.

Personal Life

Lauren Selig lives in Los Angeles.