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The $7 Billion Cable Empire Nobody Wanted, Now Trading Under Its Own Name
Comcast handed its cable networks a name, a ticker and a mandate to survive the streaming era. What Versant does with CNBC, MS NOW and $7 billion in revenue is now its own problem to solve.
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.