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Little Red Management gets to work after the final rose
Reality television supplies the attention. Courtney Bagby Lupilin’s Little Red Management handles the brand deals, campaign details and awkward business of turning that attention into a living.
Stephanie Drachkovitch Has Spent 42 Years Asking: What Happens If?
From a spare-bedroom startup to prison documentaries, celebrity formats and scripted drama, the 44 Blue co-founder has built a career on curiosity, access and the discipline to keep adapting.
The Prison-Doc Shop That Made 40 Years of Payroll Selling Stories Nobody Else Would Touch
For four decades, Rasha and Stephanie Drachkovitch have run toward the subjects most producers avoid - prisons, night shifts, grief - and turned them into shows that networks keep ordering.
Mad Realities
Mad Realities is a New York-based, creator-powered entertainment network making original episodic shows built for the internet-native generation. Co-founded in 2021 by Alice Ma and Devin Lewtan, it pairs television-level production with social-first distribution across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and madrealities.tv - producing viral series like Shop Cats, Hollywood IQ, Proof of Love and Keep the Meter Running. Backed by a $6M seed from Paradigm, Maveron and Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media, the company has racked up hundreds of millions of views and signed with CAA in 2025 to expand into live events, branded deals and consumer products.
Combate Global
Combate Global is the leading Hispanic mixed martial arts promotion, founded in 2011 by UFC co-creator Campbell McLaren. Built around the conviction that Latino fight fans were underserved, it produces live events, reality television and streaming content showcasing emerging Hispanic fighters, broadcasting across the United States, Latin America and Spanish-speaking markets worldwide.
Stephen Chao
Stephen Chao is the co-founder and CEO of WonderHowTo, the Santa Monica how-to video network he launched in 2008 after a combustible career in television. He created the reality formats America's Most Wanted and Cops at Fox, rose to president of Fox Television Stations, and was fired ten weeks later for hiring a model to strip during a speech about censorship in front of Rupert Murdoch. He later ran programming at USA Network. A Harvard classics major and former National Enquirer reporter, Chao built a second act around free, searchable tutorials covering everything from food hacks to augmented reality.
Theo Von
Theo Von is a comedian, podcaster, and storyteller from Covington, Louisiana, whose show 'This Past Weekend' ranked as the 4th biggest podcast globally on Spotify in 2024. Known for his absurdist Southern wit, deeply personal storytelling, and a gift for finding humor in unlikely places, he has built one of the most loyal audiences in independent media — interviewing everyone from Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders while remaining stubbornly, disarmingly himself.