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RazPR Learned to Speak Robot Before Hollywood Needed a Translator
Karen Raz built a boutique agency around a stubbornly useful skill: translating technical breakthroughs into stories that creative people actually want to hear. Nearly three decades later, the niche has become the center of media and entertainment.
Jerry Inman Has Spent a Career Marketing What Comes Next
Before streaming had a supply-chain problem, Jerry Inman was studying how fashion, software and restless consumers turn signals into decisions. That unusual apprenticeship now shapes his work at Whip Media.
Jeremy Powell Built a Career Making Design Software Get Out of the Way
He joined Vectorworks when product marketing was a department of one. Two decades later, his clearest idea remains disarmingly practical: designers should spend less time negotiating with software and more time designing.
The Company Behind the Show You Thought Just Happened
PRG supplies the machinery, people and split-second coordination behind Broadway scenery, stadium tours, broadcasts and brand spectacles. Its real product is confidence when the room is full and there is no second take.
The Company That Turned the Casting Couch Into a Login
How a Los Angeles software company bought up the casting industry's scattered platforms - Casting Networks, Spotlight, Cast It - and turned auditioning into a single global login.
Ari Daie
Ari Daie is the founder, CEO and president of FEVO, a New York social-commerce platform that turns the lonely online checkout into a group activity. After a career that ran through Goldman Sachs, two startups he built and sold, and a senior dealmaking seat at Ticketmaster/Live Nation, Daie built FEVO on a simple bet: people would rather buy tickets and merchandise together than alone. The platform now powers more than 750 partners across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS and Formula 1, and FEVO has reported scaling past a billion dollars in sales while raising tens of millions in venture funding.
Xperi Inc.
Xperi Inc. (NYSE: XPER) is a San Jose-based entertainment technology company whose work hides in plain sight inside the devices people already own. Through its DTS, HD Radio, TiVo and IMAX Enhanced brands, Xperi puts immersive sound in living rooms, smart software on televisions, broadcast and streaming radio in cars, and personalized discovery across pay-TV and IPTV platforms. Spun out of Xperi Holding Corp in 2022 as the product-focused half of the business, the company now reaches hundreds of millions of devices worldwide while pivoting its growth toward a media platform built around TiVo OS and the connected car.
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson is the Chief Business Officer and Head of Storytelling Studio at Pocket Gems, the San Francisco mobile gaming studio behind Episode and War Dragons. With a background spanning management consulting, clean-tech startups, and entrepreneurship, Dawson joined Pocket Gems in 2011 and helped scale it into one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in the world — overseeing products that have been downloaded over 325 million times and platforms where billions of story episodes have been read. He holds degrees from Yale (Ethics, Politics & Economics) and Stanford (MBA, MS in Environment & Resources), and has become one of the sharper strategic voices in mobile interactive storytelling.