Mitch Lowe From "Netflixed" by Gina Keating
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From "Netflixed" by Gina Keating
Lowe, who had taken over the negotiations with electronics manufacturers, now leveraged his entertainment industry contacts on Netflix's behalf. He persuaded David Bishop, president of a newly formed nonprofit home entertainment lobbying organization called the Digital Entertainment Group, to mention Netflix in a speech to the media and the industry in Las Vegas in June 1998.
The brief mention--about how Netflix was promoting DVDs--was enough to stir interest in the convention hall. A stream of industry executives stopped and talked to Lowe about his new start-up. Little by little, Lowe built Netflix up as a player in the new digital entertainment ecosystem.
Fast forward almost two decades to Apple's WWDC 15 next week....Ultraflix streaming gorgeous imagery on the 5K iMac...interest stirred...