What's Next! With Tiffani Bova

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.       This week I am thrilled to be speaking with Mitch Lowe. Mitch was one of the early pioneers in the movie rental industry opening video rental stores in the early 1980’s. In the late 90’s Mitch joined Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings at Netflix as the video industry expert. As VP of Business Development and Strategic Alliances for Netflix’s first 5 years, and as a member of its core executive team, Mitch led many of the partnerships that drove new subscribers to join Netflix. Mitch left Netflix in 2003 after a very successful IPO and joined the business development team at McDonalds Ventures to build a DVD evening machine business called Redbox. Mitch served as its COO and President for 8 years, growing the company from $36k in first-year revenue to over $1.5B in revenue 8 years later. Today Mitch invests in startups and gives inspirational speeches around the world to corporations, conferences, and students sharing stories of innovation, disrupt