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Megaphone TV
Media · Saas · Enterprise

Megaphone TV

Megaphone TV is a New York-based participation entertainment studio that turns passive TV viewers into active participants. Its interactive sponsorship platform lets local, national and sports broadcasters layer real-time polling, contests, trivia, user-generated content and interactive on-air graphics onto live shows - features designed to deepen viewer engagement while opening new, sponsor-friendly advertising revenue. An Emmy winner for interactive media, the platform is used across the majority of top U.S. local broadcast markets and by major networks worldwide.

interactive-tv · social-tvRead →
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Eric Allen
Executive · Operator · Founder

Eric Allen

Eric Allen is the CEO and President of LISNR, the Cincinnati-based company turning ordinary sound into a secure data channel. A self-described product guy with 30-plus years in software, he previously ran a $250M audio-fingerprinting business unit at Gracenote and helped win two Emmy Awards for interactive television. Since taking the helm in 2018, he has steered LISNR's pivot into contactless payments and proximity verification, attracting investment from Visa and pushing data-over-audio as a software alternative to NFC, Bluetooth, and QR codes.

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Johnny Harris
Creator · Journalist · Founder

Johnny Harris

Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning American journalist, filmmaker, and YouTuber with over 7.5 million subscribers, known for visually-driven explainer videos on geopolitics, history, and international affairs. A former Vox senior producer and creator of the acclaimed 'Borders' documentary series, Harris left legacy media in 2020 to build an independent journalism operation that now employs 30+ people. In February 2026, he and his wife Iz co-launched Newpress, an algorithm-free creator journalism platform designed to give audiences a direct role in the journalism process.

youtube · journalismRead →
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Chris Do
Founder · Creator · Educator

Chris Do

Chris Do is a Vietnamese-American designer, Emmy-winning creative director, and founder of The Futur - an educational platform on a mission to teach 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. He fled Vietnam as a toddler on April 30, 1975, built Blind into a $7M+ annual motion design studio serving Nike, Xbox, and Sony, then pivoted at 42 to education - amassing 2.7 million YouTube subscribers, 500K community members across 190 countries, and a $5,000/hour consulting rate. His philosophy: hard truths, gently told.

design · brandingRead →
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Wayne Chang
Founder · Investor · Engineer

Wayne Chang

Wayne Chang is a Taiwanese-American serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and technologist who co-founded Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for ~$260M, then sold to Google as Fabric), co-founded Digits (AI-powered fintech for SMBs), and is currently building Reasoner, a neurosymbolic AI company claiming to outperform OpenAI's o1 models. Named one of Forbes' Top 50 Angel Investors with 80+ investments and 31+ exits generating over $150 billion in combined value, Chang also holds the coveted @wayne Twitter handle, holds 20+ patents, won an Emmy for producing Chasing Coral, and helped launch Dropbox by recruiting co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.

entrepreneur · angel-investorRead →
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Jason Kessler
Journalist · Creator · Author

Jason Kessler

Jason Kessler is an Emmy-winning writer, food and travel journalist, TV writer, and creative director who penned episodes of NBC's The Office, wrote a weekly column for Bon Appétit, hosted Trip Testers on Travel Channel, and created the Fly&Dine travel and dining platform. A North American Travel Journalist Award winner, cancer survivor, documentary filmmaker, and classical guitarist, Kessler is a rare multi-hyphenate who moves between advertising copy, primetime TV, and long-form journalism with the same easy wit he brings to rating airline food.

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