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Waverley Capital is a VC fund co-founded by Daniel Leff and…
Waverley Capital is a VC fund co-founded by Daniel Leff and…
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted this🚨Most Valuable Promotions and the Professional Fighters League have officially merged. 🚨 Together under the MVP banner, we’re bringing world-class boxing, MMA, premium live events, athlete development, and global content distribution into one fighter-first organization. The future of combat sports is here. Welcome to MVP🤝 #mvp #boxing #mvpmma #pfl #mma
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Daniel L. shared thisCongratulations Anthony and team! Incredible milestone!Daniel L. shared thisToday Roku surpassed 100 million streaming households around the world. When we started Roku, the goal was simple… make TV better for everyone. This milestone is a reminder of how far streaming has come, and how much opportunity is still ahead.
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted thisOur newest Lil Snack -- 'Combo' is now LIVE on Netflix's Puzzled App! 👏🤩🧩 Working w/world-class partners like Netflix has lead to our games getting better & better! We up-leveled the entire experience working with the folks at Next Games, A Netflix Game Studio, who care as much as we do about delivering the best consumer experience 🙏🖤🤍 This was a game Travis Chen built for our Lil Communitty and now it's reaching audiences at scale 🚀 And very fun to see our very own Jennifer Frazin become even more famous through her crafty writing w/the help of our content team! Play Today: https://lnkd.in/eJNhH27h
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted thisLil Snack is officially powering the BuzzFeed Arcade! 🕹️🖤🤍🔥 Our early partnership with BuzzFeed was one of our first major distribution collabs, leading us down the path on the future strategy for our lil' company. 🚀 Grateful to team up with soooooo many awesome folks at BuzzFeed over the past few years + all the efforts of our Lil Team to make this happen. 🙏👏 More Here: https://lnkd.in/gj_ZhPqJ
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted thisSome news: after almost a decade, we're renaming our company. Volley is now Weekend. As a kid, I spent the entire week looking forward to the weekend. I think most people do. That feeling — anticipation, joy, time with people you love — is what we're building around. For the past 8 years, we've been building voice AI games under the name Volley. First on Alexa, where we became the biggest games developer on the platform. Then on smart TVs, where our business took off beyond anything we expected — surpassing our entire Alexa business in under a year. The name Volley got us here. But we outgrew it. We needed a name that matches what we're actually building: the AI for fun company. Every major AI company is focused on making work more efficient. That's important. But if AI gives us back our time, someone should be building the things worth doing with it. That's Weekend. We make interactive, AI-powered games that families play together on their TVs — Jeopardy, karaoke, trivia, dungeon crawlers, and more. Voice AI is the skeleton key that finally makes television interactive after fifty years of the same janky remote. And we're just getting started. Same team. Same mission. Better name. Every other AI company is trying to make your Tuesday more productive. We're trying to make your Tuesday feel like Saturday. The Weekend starts today. Check us out at Weekend.com.
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Daniel L. reposted thisWe’ve believed for a long time that music is moving from passive listening to participation. However, the unlock isn’t just better tools ... it’s giving creators access to licensed music in a way that actually works for rights holders. Excited to see the Hook team close a $10M Series A and looking forward to partnering with Khosla Ventures on the next phase of the journey!Daniel L. reposted thisToday we’re announcing Hook’s $10M Series A, led by Khosla Ventures! We’re proud to have continued support from Point72 Ventures, Imaginary, Waverley Capital, and more in this round - bringing our total funding to $16M. Incredibly grateful to our team, users, and partners across the music ecosystem who share our vision for building the future of social music - where fans can freely create with the music they love, and ownership and monetization remain artist-first. Read more about our raise in our blog post (linked in comments). P.S. We’re hiring! Join our growing team shaping what’s next for music 🎶
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted thisI’m beyond proud to share that MikMak has been acquired by SPINS. When I met SPINS CEO Jay Margolis, everything flowed. We share the same conviction about where commerce is heading. It’s wild how one breakfast can change the trajectory of your life. This moment was 11.5 years in the making, and it would never have happened without a few key groups: 1. Our customers: While we work with the biggest brands in the world, we also work with the most generous leaders in the world. Thank you for trusting us, pushing us, and growing with us. 2. Our employees, past and present: Your grit, intelligence, and heart built not just a company, but hundreds of careers across this ecosystem. To my ELT Micah Kushner, Jose Rodriguez, and Mahesh Nair, this milestone exists because of how we lead together. 3. Our investors & Board: Thank you for standing by me in both the greatest moments and the hardest ones, Wavecrest Growth Partners Deepak Sindwani Danny Stein Irene Chang Britt Gary Vaynerchuk Phil Toronto Daniel L. 4. My family & friends: Especially my dad Neil Tipograph, our first CFO until 2020; my mom Jill Tipograph, MikMak’s first investor; and my wife Sami Ginsberg, LMSW, who has always treated MikMak like our shared baby. Business is about people. I feel incredibly lucky to have built MikMak alongside such a loving community. So what does SPINS x MikMak mean for the market? • Unmatched omnichannel availability & POS intelligence: Combining SPINS’ proprietary POS data with MikMak’s 8,000+ retailer integrations so brands can close distribution gaps and drive purchase confidence faster than ever before. • Unprecedented scale & operational excellence: Serving a community of 4,000+ brands with end-to-end visibility into the global consumer economy. • Future-proof innovation: Building the foundation for the AI commerce era, bridging inspiration to verified sales through agentic technology and full-journey orchestration. You’ll hear more soon about what’s next, including the debut of MikMak 4.0, the only agile, real-time commerce intelligence and orchestration platform designed to optimize every marketing dollar across an entire tech stack and partner ecosystem. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eFX47ayK
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted thisLil Snack x Netflix GAMES! ❤️🖤🤍 Over the Thanksgiving Break, Netflix launched their new 'Netflix Puzzled' mobile App, featuring a select set of up-leveled Lil Snack games, which will be updated DAILY tied to Netflix IP! 🤩 Its been awesome to watch Travis Chen, Ryan Berg & Tanner Greenring lock arms 🤝 w/the fantastic team at Netflix to take this games experience to another level! 🚀 So damn proud of our Lil Team on how much they have shipped 🛳️ this year, while maintaining such a high quality bar. Excited for what's to come in '26! Thank you Jeet Shroff, Ray Bautista, Colby Robbins, Bart van Paassen, Neha Joshi, Dalia Davis & so many others, for being such wonderful and thoughtful partners.🙏👏
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Daniel L. reposted thisDaniel L. reposted thisWe are so excited to announce the completion of our business combination with The Walt Disney Company's Hulu + Live TV. Our Co-founder and CEO David Gandler said it best: "Since Fubo’s founding a decade ago, our vision has always been to build a consumer-first streaming platform defined by innovation and value. Together with Disney, we’re creating a more flexible streaming ecosystem that gives consumers greater choice, while driving profitability and sustainable growth. We’re also proud to reward our retail shareholders who have supported Fubo’s mission from the very beginning. We believe this combination delivers the scale, stability and strategic clarity to create lasting value for consumers and shareholders, and indelibly impact the future of live streaming.” Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eR2jdKTmA Player Emerges: Hulu and Fubo Close Deal to Merge Live TV Streaming OperationA Player Emerges: Hulu and Fubo Close Deal to Merge Live TV Streaming Operation
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Daniel L. liked thisToday, we announced the merger of PFL and MVP Promotions. A huge amount of work went on behind the scenes to bring together two of combat sports’ most ambitious businesses. Thank you to everyone across both teams who helped make it happen. The opportunity ahead is significant and I’m excited for what comes next.Daniel L. liked this🚨Most Valuable Promotions and the Professional Fighters League have officially merged. 🚨 Together under the MVP banner, we’re bringing world-class boxing, MMA, premium live events, athlete development, and global content distribution into one fighter-first organization. The future of combat sports is here. Welcome to MVP🤝 #mvp #boxing #mvpmma #pfl #mma
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Daniel L. liked thisAfter 27 years at Deutsche Bank, I’ve decided to move on to a new adventure. I’m incredibly grateful to my many friends and colleagues at DB for an amazing experience and for everything I’ve learned over the years covering the semiconductor industry. I’m excited to bring that experience to Marvell as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, and look forward to working with the team during such an important time for the company and the industry.Daniel L. liked thisToday we're pleased to welcome Ross Seymore to Marvell as our new Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Ross joins Marvell after more than 25 years at Deutsche Bank Securities, most recently as a Managing Director, where he was recognized as one of the semiconductor industry's leading equity research analysts. He brings deep expertise in semiconductor technologies, markets, and business models, along with longstanding relationships across the global investment community and a strong understanding of Marvell's strategy and long-term opportunity. Ross succeeds Ashish Saran, who has announced his plans to retire following a distinguished career spanning nearly three decades in the semiconductor industry, including the past eight years at Marvell. Ashish will remain with the company through the end of April 2027, working closely with Ross to ensure a seamless leadership transition. We thank Ashish for his exceptional leadership and numerous contributions to Marvell, and we're excited to welcome Ross to the team.
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Daniel L. liked thisDaniel L. liked thisI'm incredibly excited and honored to welcome Bill Kang to Lil Snack as our new COO. Bill and I go way back to the early days of Scopely, when the whole team worked out of a glorified apartment in Hollywood. For a while, our two dogs roamed the office together (his far better behaved than mine). We helped build that early Scopely momentum side by side. From there, Bill went on to grow some of the biggest games in the world at Supercell — including one of my all-time favorites, Brawl Stars. Getting to work with him again feels like an Avengers (re)assemble moment. Can't wait to bring bite-sized play to the world together. Fancy article! https://lnkd.in/gMEqCJHQ
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Daniel L. liked thisDaniel L. liked thisOfficially announcing Bill Kang has joined Lil Snack as our COO! 🥷🚀👏 Bill served as a senior leader at both Supercell and Scopely — two of the most successful gaming companies ever! He’s the operator of operators and joining us to scale our partnerships, build our platform and add a new level of operational excellence to Lil Snack. Through the interview process it was clear he's beloved by everyone who’s ever worked with him & the same sentiment kept recurring 'he's just a great human'. Proud to have him on our Lil' Team! 🖤 He joins us at a pivotal moment as we enter our next phase of growth, following a collection of key milestones... 💰 Completed $8M Seed lead by a16z, Lerer Hippeau & Waverley. 📈 2X'ing our team YoY now w/HQ in NYC! 🗽 🌎 Codified our mission to bring Bite-Size Play to World! 📣 New major game launches & partner announces coming soon! Link to Article: https://lnkd.in/gCkGDfV8
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Daniel L. liked thisI am thrilled to share that I've been named CEO of Fubo! Fubo has created a leading platform in virtual Pay TV, and I can't wait to work alongside this talented team of leaders and employees as we build on that vision, becoming the world-class standard for live sports, news and entertainment streaming and delivering even more value to our Fubo and Hulu + Live TV subscribers. Having spent nearly the past decade at The Walt Disney Company, I’m grateful to my colleagues and leaders there, for the many opportunities I’ve had to launch, transform, and grow some of the world’s leading streaming services. I look forward to delivering the same passion for premier programming, innovation, and subscriber experience to Fubo as it enters this next chapter of growth.Daniel L. liked thisWe’re excited to share that Alisa Bowen is joining us as Fubo’s new Chief Executive Officer. Alisa brings three decades of leadership experience at the intersection of consumer media, streaming and digital operations from several prominent media organizations around the world. Most recently, she served as President of Disney+, one of the world’s largest and most renowned streaming platforms, and played a pivotal role in Disney’s global launch, scaling and integration of Disney+ with Hulu and ESPN+. Alisa will work with our talented organization to build on our strong platform today, with a focus on accelerating go-to-market execution, driving growth and delivering even greater value for our subscribers, advertisers and partners. Welcome to Fubo, Alisa! Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/g3V3ng4hFubo Appoints Alisa Bowen as Chief Executive OfficerFubo Appoints Alisa Bowen as Chief Executive Officer
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Five Stumbling Blocks to Mass Adoption of Internet TV
Re/code
See publicationKey issues around mainstream adoption of over-the-top (OTT) television
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A New Era in TV
AllThingsD
See publicationWe are in the early stages of a video creation, distribution, consumption, content bundling and pricing paradigm shift that will lead to fundamental and transformational shifts in the $150 billion U.S. pay-TV ecosystem.
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Transformation in Video
Flipboard
See publicationTrends & Dynamics around innovation and disruption throughout the video value chain: content creation, distribution, and consumption...plus...some of my favorite videos!
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