
Mitch Lowe
Mitch Lowe invested in and became CEO of MoviePass, Inc. in June 2016. MoviePass is a Movie Theater subscription service and is headquartered in New York City.
Mitch was a founding Executive at Netflix, Inc., serving as Netflix's Entertainment Domain Expert and as Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances from 1998 to 2003.
In 2003 Mitch joined the investment group at McDonald's to co-lead as COO and then as President, at Redbox, a DVD vending machine rental service, that under his leadership grew to 35k kiosks across the US with revenue growing from less than $1m in 2003 to $1.5B in revenue in 2011 with over $325m in free cash flow.
Since then Mitch has made many personal investments in start-ups primarily in the entertainment, blockchain and social space. Mitch is passionate about the success and business fulfillment of people in large businesses as well as first-time entrepreneurs.
Mitch Lowe invested in and became CEO of MoviePass, Inc. in June 2016. MoviePass is a Movie Theater subscription service and is headquartered in New York City.
Mitch was a founding Executive at Netflix, Inc., serving as Netflix's Entertainment Domain Expert and as Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances from 1998 to 2003.
In 2003 Mitch joined the investment group at McDonald's to co-lead as COO and then as President, at Redbox, a DVD vending machine rental service, that under his leadership grew to 35k kiosks across the US with revenue growing from less than $1m in 2003 to $1.5B in revenue in 2011 with over $325m in free cash flow.
Since then Mitch has made many personal investments in start-ups primarily in the entertainment, blockchain and social space. Mitch is passionate about the success and business fulfillment of people in large businesses as well as first-time entrepreneurs.
DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED
Disrupt or be Disrupted
FACING TOUGH LEADERSHIP DECISIONS
Remember when Netflix decided to increase their monthly fee by 60% or when Redbox raised their rental prices higher than $1 per night? Drawing on instances from his time at Netflix and Redbox, Mitch explains decisions made when the companies faced existential and strategic crises, providing reasoning behind those decisions and their effects-for better and/or worse.
Mitch discusses the wrong ways to make a decision and which factors are actually not helpful in the...
Facing Tough Leadership Decisions
Remember when Netflix decided to increase their monthly fee by 60% or when Redbox raised their rental prices higher than $1 per night? Drawing on instances from his time at Netflix and Redbox, Mitch explains decisions made when the companies faced existential and strategic crises, providing reasoning behind those decisions and their effects-for better and/or worse.
Mitch discusses the wrong ways to make a decision and which factors are actually not helpful in the...
FUTURE OF MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT
Creating a Winning Culture
The culture that developed in the early days of Netflix played a large role in the success of the company, and when Mitch took over as Redbox President he brought that culture with him. While, Redbox-a Chicago based company with midwest values-was a very different...
HOW I FORGOT ALL THE LESSONS I LEARNED WHILE RUNNING MOVIEPASS
Building Teamwork to Achieve Innovative Results
SO MANY CHOICES
Entertainment and the various ways we get content are evolving rapidly. We started with cave drawings, Homer, medieval traveling plays, 12th century chivalric odes, Shakespeare, opera, and silent theaters. Then, we moved on to movies, TV, VHS and DVD. Now, we have streaming platforms like TikTok, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and international companies like Shahid and Rakutan.
These days, new apps and platforms are being created one after another, to the extent that it's hard to...
