JK Rowling: Creating Harry Potter’s Fantasy Empire

This episode of Bloomberg’s Game Changers spotlights the phenomenon of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book and film series.

She is the first author to become a billionaire. There are not many authors who keep putting out books in a series that can sell 15 million copies on the first day of publication. Her imagination has resonated with children and adults and changed every industry. Harry Potter itself was as big as a small publishing company, Harry Potter is the gold standard. JK Rowling’s success was born out of struggle and heartbreak: “I was the biggest failure that I knew” she says.