Kevin Tsujihara built his career on the finance and business side of entertainment rather than the creative track, starting at Ernst & Young's entertainment division and co-founding a tax business before rising through Warner Bros. to eventually lead the studio, becoming the first Japanese-American to head a major Hollywood studio. Throughout his career he treated gaming as a core business alongside film and TV and pushed the industry toward new distribution models like direct-to-consumer streaming and shifting release windows before many of his peers were comfortable doing so.