Drew Massey

Summary

I'm a tech media entrepreneur who has built companies from scratch working with the nation's top financiers, technologists, advertising agencies, media and entertainment outlets, talent agencies, and digital companies. As a Digital Technology Media pioneer, I founded Internet TV company maniaTV and raised capital to grow the company from leading Venture Capitalists Benchmark Capital and Intel Capital. My team leveraged new technology to pioneer digital television (basically built AWS before AWS), broadcasting over 25,000 music videos and pop-culture entertainment online with Hollywood talent. We worked with every major advertising agency and top 200 youth marketer to grow the company to $10 Million run-rate, profitability and to secure a nearly $100 Million buyout offer from Viacom. The Venture Capitalists declined the offer and I became Chairman to let the VCs execute their “Yahoo” strategy. Prior to maniaTV, I launched a company for Forbes, Inc. and then young men’s P.O.V. Magazine which was named Adweek’s Startup of the Year as well as Adweek’s Top 10 Up & Comer. And I was named in Folio’s "30 under 30”, have been interviewed by innumerable media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Associated Press, Advertising Age, Adweek, Mediaweek, and more. As well as having been an invited speaker at many industry events.