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Wade Davis and the audience hiding in plain sight
Wade Davis helped join Univision to Televisa’s content business and put ViX on the screen. His next assignment takes the former television CEO into the billboard business.
Warner Music Group wants both sides of the song.
A recording is only half the music business. Warner’s latest move brings the other half closer - and reveals how a major label plans to stay useful when anyone can press upload.
Michelle Mikesell and the trouble with the last mile
After years inside studio production, Michelle Mikesell co-founded 360 Solutions to take on the handoffs, revisions and delivery headaches behind global releases. Her business begins where a beautiful piece of artwork meets a very particular deadline.
Robert Kyncl and the price of pressing play
He helped bring Hollywood to Netflix and creators to the centre of YouTube. At Warner Music Group, Robert Kyncl is trying to make the next technological upheaval pay the people who make the songs.
Oleg Tumanov and the price of pressing play
He left banking to build Ivi in a market accustomed to free films. The harder part was learning what would make people pay - and when to start composing something else.
Vijay Sajja’s long game with the cancel button
Vijay Sajja built Evergent around a stubborn problem: the software behind a subscription could rarely keep up with the person paying for it. His answer has taken him from a Menlo Park garage to a partnership with the NBA.
Anshuman Das and the Office That Outgrew Its Original Idea
The Muvi founder has spent years helping other people build streaming businesses. His own experiments - from a public culture document to an office that became a coworking space - reveal a particular interest in how people get things done.
Operative makes the ad sale add up
Selling an ad is a promise. Operative builds the software that carries that promise through TV, streaming, delivery and the invoice.
Reed Hastings and the trouble with getting good at something
Netflix taught Reed Hastings how success can harden into habit. His next chapter runs through classrooms, artificial intelligence and a Utah mountain, with the same awkward question: when should the rules change?
Farhad Massoudi and the price of free
Farhad Massoudi built Tubi around the films people wanted to watch, even when investors wanted something else. His bet on free television led to a Fox acquisition, a changing catalog and a new seat beside other founders.
Young Joon Cha and the distance between a good show and home
He started ODK Media with a conviction that Korean television deserved a legal route to viewers abroad. The business that followed has taken him from a room in Boston to a growing network of Asian entertainment services.
Lachlan Murdoch and the long way back to Fox
He left the family business in 2005, built a radio business in Australia, and returned to lead Fox. Now Lachlan Murdoch is taking the inheritance into streaming, with a proposed $22 billion deal for Roku.
Iyuno makes the world laugh in another language
A subtitle is a tiny piece of text with a very large job. Iyuno built a global business around getting it right, then bought the studios and built the software to make stories travel.
Dreams put television on its feet
A free app, an upright screen, and a wager that choosing what to watch had become too much work. Dreams brought channel surfing to the phone - with Bob Ross, live news, and a surprisingly complicated backstage.
Above Average found the funny. Then it found the buyer.
A closet interview helped launch Broadway Video’s comedy venture. Today, its work travels from Broadway stages to streaming screens - and, in 2026, Pete Davidson’s garage.
ZOO Digital and the 780,000 details behind your next binge
A film can travel the world only after its voices, subtitles and files survive the journey. ZOO Digital turns that overlooked work into a business - and its own recent reset shows how much depends on the studios holding the purse strings.
Sunil Rayan and the Price of Attention
Across mobile apps, streaming and machine-learning advertising, Sunil Rayan has pursued the same stubborn question: can attention be turned into an outcome without wasting either? His career is a tour through the systems that decide what the world sees next.
360 Solutions and the art of getting 4 million files out the door
A movie gets one release date and thousands of chances to miss it. Two former studio insiders built 360 Solutions around the unglamorous work of making global artwork arrive ready.
Arenas Group Saw Hollywood’s Audience Before Hollywood Did
Santiago Pozo started with $6,000 and a conviction that U.S. Hispanic moviegoers deserved a proper invitation. Arenas turned that idea into decades of entertainment campaigns, then followed the audience into streaming.
Astro Wants to Make the TV Bundle Worth Paying For Again
Malaysia’s satellite-TV veteran is cutting the price of entry, inviting streaming rivals onto its boxes and betting on stories made at home. The audience is there. Rebuilding the business is harder.
Sahil Dhar Hakim Built a Career in the Spaces Between Departments
From car strategy and field sales to fintech SaaS and streaming economics, Evergent's Chief Business Officer has made a specialty of translating between products, markets and the people who must make them work.
The Marketer Fox Handed Its Streaming Future
He built subscriber machines at Hulu and FanDuel before the streaming wars got loud. Now he has to convince America to pay Fox directly.
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.
Sonos Wired the Whole House for Sound - Then Shipped the App That Nearly Unplugged It
The company that made multi-room music feel effortless spent 2024 proving how quickly one software update can undo twenty years of goodwill - and 2025 trying to earn it back.
The Quiet Roll-Up Wiring Brazil's Interior, One Bought-Out ISP at a Time
A decade of acquisitions turned a scattered handful of small-town providers into Brazil's second-largest ISP in Sao Paulo state. Here is how Alares built a fiber network out of everyone else's leftovers.
The 366-Foot Screen That Ate Las Vegas
One company runs the most expensive room ever built in Las Vegas and the cable channel that carries the Knicks. Here is how Sphere Entertainment turned a glowing orb into a business.
The Mountain Changed Hands
One of the oldest logos in film now belongs to a tech scion with a streaming problem to solve and an $80-billion appetite. Here is how the studio behind Top Gun, SpongeBob and 60 Minutes plans to stay standing.
Spectrum’s Big Bet: Make the Cable Bundle Useful Again
The cable bundle did not disappear. Spectrum is rebuilding it around broadband, WiFi, mobile and streaming - and betting that one connected household is worth more than four separate subscriptions.
The Company Betting That the Next Great Streaming War Will Be Fought in Spanish
Univision and Televisa spent decades as rivals across the same language. In 2022 they merged into one $4.8-billion company - and bet the whole thing on a streaming app named ViX.
The Free Streamer That Went and Got 100 Million People
No password, no monthly bill, no free-trial trap. Tubi bet that a giant, gloriously weird library and a few well-placed ads could out-hustle the subscription wars - and 100 million people showed up.