Mike Weiss

Summary

Michael Weiss, Founder/President/CEO of Nature's Dream Inc, is a serial entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of how, when and where people consume media for decades. His career began in the early 70’s as college promotion manager at CBS Records in Miami, then becoming one of Chicago’s top club deejays before pioneering home video retailing later that decade when he opened one of the world's first video store chains. In the mid 80’s, as part of the start-up team at J2 Communications, the home video label that acquired National Lampoon, he launched the first ever direct-response television and interactive campaigns for marketing videos, tactics that have since become widespread in the industry. He was the first to release major movies on CD-ROMs in the mid 90’s and later that decade was one of the pioneers in streaming media as founder of WebRadio.com where he took the company from inception to a $441M valuation in less than a year. In the 21st century, he helmed one of the most disruptive new media technology companies and was amongst the first to incorporate social networking to drive distribution. At the time, the Morpheus P2P app was one of the fastest consumer adapted technologies in history gaining 20 million unique users within 4 months of launch and remained the #1 most downloaded software on the Internet for over a year amassing over 200M downloads. In June, 2001, Time Magazine proclaimed that "Morpheus is the ONE," taking over Napster's popularity. He has organized and led several emerging industry trade associations, lobbied government leaders and testified before Congress and regulatory agencies. In May, 2016, he launched his latest venture, Nature's Dream Inc - with was officially announced on on Sept 22 2016. It's Cannacopia app is gaining great reviews and available free at iTunes and Google Play Store. Specialties: Marketing, business development, management, negotiation. mergers and acquisitions