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☆ The cofounder of MoviePass is raising $20 million from Amazon and Alphabet for a longevity-focused venture studio
  + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
MoviePass ousted Watt, along with its other cofounder Stacy Spikes, from the company two years before filing for bankruptcy. Since then, Watt has been building Share Ventures, a venture studio that's now closed on nearly $20 million of funding from backers including Amazon and Alphabet. Share Ventures has quietly been spinning up those startups and plans to start announcing them in the coming months. Oral health company Feno, one of Share Ventures' portfolio companies, is working on a smart toothbrush powered by AI. Share VenturesAI is supercharging the venture studio modelThreats to the venture capital industry, from high interest rates to the explosion of AI, aren't letting up.
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☆ 'MoviePass, MovieCrash' showcases the catastrophic behind-the-scenes story of the movie-ticket subscription app
  + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewThe upcoming HBO documentary, "MoviePass, MovieCrash" chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the movie-ticket subscription company MoviePass. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. (Both Lowe and Farnsworth were charged with securities fraud in 2022 and are awaiting trial.) "MoviePass, MovieCrash" is produced by Assemble Media and Mark Wahlberg's Unrealistic Ideas ("McMillions").
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☆ MoviePass has landed a deal with Walmart to sell subscriptions in stores across the country
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
MoviePass will be available at Walmart, several sources familiar with the deal told Insider. MoviePass relaunched last year in beta form and plans to be available to all customers by the summer. MoviePass will have displays in Walmart stores across the country where its subscription cards will be available for shoppers, sources said. No details were given to Insider about what the offer on the MoviePass Walmart cards will be, or when the cards will be available in stores. "This is a huge win for MoviePass and for the theatrical movie business," Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian told Insider.
☆ MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes on his plans to relaunch the service (for real) and bring back an unlimited option
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +20 min
Stacy Spikes told Insider he plans to put MoviePass out of beta and make it available for all by the summer. You would think Spikes would want to run as far away as possible from the movie-ticket-subscription startup. Before Stacy Spikes created MoviePass he created the Urbanworld Film Festival. I wanted to put that down because I see so many times people approach me and think MoviePass was my first business. MoviePassThe MoviePass beta version is focused on the credits system, e-ticketing, and fixing bugsWhat have been the biggest challenges in getting this beta version of MoviePass off the ground?
☆ Former MoviePass executives sued by the SEC, which alleges they made 'false or misleading statements' to the public
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The SEC is suing former MoviePass executives Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth. The suit claims they made "false and misleading statements" about the company being profitable. In a complaint filed late Monday, reviewed by Insider, it claims that the duo made "false or misleading statements" in financial filings and in the press. Itum is accused of submitting false invoices and receiving more than $310,000 from both MoviePass and HMNY. Last June, Farnsworth and Lowe settled with the FTC and reached a $400,000 settlement with the California district attorneys.
☆ The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions
  + stars: | 2019-09-13 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +28 min
In 2017, he became the CEO of data company Helios & Matheson Analytics. At that price MoviePass would start losing money when a subscriber used the service more than once a month. MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth after the company hit 1 million subscribers. The same day MoviePass reached 1 million subscribers, a milestone it hit faster than Netflix and Hulu. Related storiesTo draw a crowd, MoviePass blasted out an invitation to the Big Boi show to its then 2 million subscribers.
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