Stacy Spikes - Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
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An empowering, inspiring, instructive, and essential blueprint for success from the award-winning entrepreneur who USA Today named one of the 21 most influential Blacks in technology and is the co-founder and former CEO of the nations first mobile theatrical subscription company, MoviePass, and founder of the Urbanworld Film Festival. Bracingly honest, as well as entertaining, this inspiring business memoir includes outrageous anecdotes featuring the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Eddie Murphy.
From theaward-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the 21 most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and workincluding the true story of what really happened to MoviePass, the nations groundbreaking first-ever theatrical subscription servicestraight from the co-founder and former CEO himself...
Stacy Spikes knows whats it like to be an outsider. He certainly knew he didnt fit the mold of a successful future tech entrepreneur. But he marshaled his resilience and ultimately set out to shatter that moldalong with the glass ceiling that came with it. Finding his footing in the tech world was an education in the complexities of being an outsiderbut as Stacy came to see, rather than a hindrance, it afforded him a unique position of power.
Beginning as a film studio gopher, Spikes quickly rose through the industry ranks, being named one of the Hollywood Reporters 30 Under 30. Still, he was an outsider looking in. So he set out to make his own dreams a reality. Defying expectations, Spikes effectively disrupted the status quo and reinvented himself from junior executive to CEO Tech Founder. What ensued was an escalating adventure with bigger stages, bigger risks, and a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating ascentunpredictable collapseand a story book return.
Now Spikes shares his challenges, pitfalls, and keys to personal and professional fulfillment. He shows how the seemingly impossible can be overcome by having faith in oneself and creating from a place of confidence. Taking readers inside the battles of the boardroom and beyond, Black Founder is a business memoir that will inspire every outsider who has a dream.
From theaward-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the 21 most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and workincluding the true story of what really happened to MoviePass, the nations groundbreaking first-ever theatrical subscription servicestraight from the co-founder and former CEO himself...
Stacy Spikes knows whats it like to be an outsider. He certainly knew he didnt fit the mold of a successful future tech entrepreneur. But he marshaled his resilience and ultimately set out to shatter that moldalong with the glass ceiling that came with it. Finding his footing in the tech world was an education in the complexities of being an outsiderbut as Stacy came to see, rather than a hindrance, it afforded him a unique position of power.
Beginning as a film studio gopher, Spikes quickly rose through the industry ranks, being named one of the Hollywood Reporters 30 Under 30. Still, he was an outsider looking in. So he set out to make his own dreams a reality. Defying expectations, Spikes effectively disrupted the status quo and reinvented himself from junior executive to CEO Tech Founder. What ensued was an escalating adventure with bigger stages, bigger risks, and a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating ascentunpredictable collapseand a story book return.
Now Spikes shares his challenges, pitfalls, and keys to personal and professional fulfillment. He shows how the seemingly impossible can be overcome by having faith in oneself and creating from a place of confidence. Taking readers inside the battles of the boardroom and beyond, Black Founder is a business memoir that will inspire every outsider who has a dream.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
W RITING THIS BOOK has been an amazing journey. At times I thought I would never finish it. Like my life, I did not do any of this alone, and I want to thank some of the special people who helped along the way.
First, I would like to thank my family for their unwavering support over the years. There is absolutely no way I could have done any of this without you. Each and every one of you helped in your own unique way to keep me going on my path, especially at low points, and for that I cannot thank you enough.
Many people made this book possible. I would like to thank Jim Holt, my dear walking friend who connected me with Trish Hall, the former New York Times editor who introduced me to her agent, Alice Martell, who became my agent. Alice, I want to thank you for your sincere honesty and for being willing to fight for me every step of the way. And most of all, I want to thank my beloved editor, Denise Silvestro. You are absolutely amazing and give new definition to the idea of being able to finish my sentences. You made writing this book a delight.
I am so proud of the legacy we have built at Urbanworld. It is one of the most important things I have ever had the pleasure of building in my life. But hands down, if I am Urbanworlds father, Gabrielle Glore, you are its mother. It has been such an amazing journey building and nurturing Urbanworld with you. You are the ultimate combination of force and grace, so rarely found in the same person. You have the ability to move mountains and have everyone still like you at the end of that process. Yours has been the closest working relationship of my career, and most of all I love your tradition of dropping off pies at Christmas (although not having to run it off on New Years Day). I love you, and Im very grateful to you for being a part of our family.
In addition, I want to thank so many of the people who help to make Urbanworld the best festival in the world. There are so many of you to name, and you know who you are. I just want to say thank you for your pride and ownership over the years. I know the future of cinema is in very safe hands.
Ava DuVernay, such a large part of Urbanworlds and MoviePasss success is owed to you. You had a vision of who I and the festival could be. You were our publicist for years, and many dont know the unimaginable feats you accomplished, from getting Tom Cruise to premiere Collateral in Harlem or pushing me to build MoviePass and step into the limelight. Urbanworld has been your home, and you have returned over the years and continued to share your extraordinary directorial works here. Thank you, sis, for your strong hands lifting up so many, and we are grateful for all you do.
MoviePass, MoviePass, MoviePass. You wild band of movie lovers. What a journey we have been on. I want to thank all of the staff. All our early believers who hung in there with us and gave us great guidance and feedback. Our investors. And just everyone who fought alongside us in this crazy love affair with going to the movies. Theres not a thing like it in the world, and theres nothing like you. We could not have built any of this without you. Special thanks to the original team. It was so much fun when we all fit in a single elevator at work and went to the movies together every Friday morning to see the new releases. Those were the days.
To my cofounder of MoviePass, Hamet Watt. You are one of the sharpest brothers I know. I have learned so much from you, and you gave me a newfound enthusiasm for always staying at the leading edge of technology. It has been a great pleasure walking with you on this adventure.
One thing in this life you need is a good lawyer. Theres no way around it. The better you have, the better you will sleep. I have been represented by some of the best people, who I would call friends, and I just wanted to name some of them and let them know how much I appreciate all theyve done... Ed and Joyce Reitler, Lisa Davis, Troy Foster, Christina Poulsen, and Barbara Courtney, the worlds best patent attorney.
Community is very important, and for me the Black Filmmakers Foundation, founded by Warrington Hudlin, was critical to my career and those of so many others. Warrington would gather us every year in SoCal so that we could meet and strategize about the newest technology and make sure we all helped one another along the way. I met Gabrielle Glore and Hamet Watt at BFF. Warrington, you are a national treasure to all of us, and we are so humbled by the work you have done to make this possible. Thank you and bless you.
In the life of an entrepreneur, you need money and resources to build the ideas and dreams you have in your head. I want to thank all the investors who have ever invested in my adventures. I am humbled and grateful that you gave me a chance to build things to help change the world. I hope that I honored you.
Joey Adarkwa, thank you for being such an important part of the team and for always bringing your sense of humor when trying to meet impossible deadlines all the while being a wonderful family man.
Founders need fuel, and in the West Village we all ate at Getting Hungry. I ate there almost every day for twenty years. When you walked into Getting Hungry you were met with a huge wooden lion and lots of smiles and conversations from Joe and Hannah Dvir and Johanna Bodmer. Thank you for being a daily part of my life when I was up and when I was down.
Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint at heart. Its important to be able to step away from it all and recharge. I would like to thank my faith community, Abbey of the Genesee monastery, where I go on my silent retreats, and the US National Parks, including state park Hither Hills and campground Fish Creek Pond. I also want to express my gratitude to the Sutherland family, whom we have been camping with for years and watching our children grow up together over these summers. You showed me how to detach from my stress-driven lifework and go back to nature, which is where the real action is. Long live the Hither Highlanders!
To my wife, Marianne, and my daughter, Ellery, thank you for your love, encouragement, and support. I love you more than you will ever know.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
S TACY SPIKES is an award-winning entrepreneur and inventor who USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Black professionals in technology. He holds several business and technical patents. He is the cofounder of the nations first theatrical subscription service, MoviePass. In addition, Spikes is the founder of Urbanworld, the largest international festival dedicated to nurturing women and BIPOC storytellers and creators.
If there is one lesson Ive learned, its this: It really doesnt matter whether you succeed or fail, as long as you are willing to try. In trying, you just might make it.
Courtesy of Urbanworld Foundation Inc.
My mother, Rose, with me ( right ) and my brother, Marcus.
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