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Ravid Razak Turned a GoPro Editing Problem Into a Global Video Company
A post-trip editing headache gave Ravid Razak the idea for DreamItReel. More than a decade later, he is still applying a consultant's eye to the unruly business of making video at scale.
Shane Smith Built VICE Twice - Once Into an Empire, Then Back Into a Question
VICE began as a free Montreal magazine, became a multibillion-dollar wager on youth media, and collapsed under the weight of that wager. Its co-founder is back behind a microphone, chasing the one asset no bankruptcy court can sell: attention earned by curiosity.
Mandy Teefey Has Always Bet on the Story Everyone Else Left by the Curb
Before she became Wondermind’s co-founder and CEO, Mandy Teefey learned production from the floor up, turned an abandoned-couch family joke into a company name, and carried one young-adult novel through years of Hollywood limbo. Her career is a study in stubborn attention - and what it costs when conviction meets the operating realities of a startup.
Alice Ma
Alice Ma is the co-founder, CEO and Creative Director of Mad Realities, a New York media company building 'the MTV of the internet generation.' She designs unscripted shows made natively for social feeds - Shop Cats, Hollywood IQ, Proof of Love, Keep the Meter Running - that have racked up more than a billion views across just eight shows. Before TV, she helped run ConstitutionDAO, which raised $53 million in seven days, studied computer science, political economy and Arabic at UC Berkeley, and published the first investigation into terrorist crowdfunding on Bitcoin. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, she is trying to bootstrap a new Hollywood ecosystem out of the participation mechanics of K-pop and crypto.