Michael Weiss (Streamcast)
Michael Weiss is an Internet entrepreneur. He launched one of the niche's very first retail outlets in 1978.[citation needed]
Weiss was founding CEO of StreamCast Networks, which launched the Morpheus P2P application.[1][not in citation given][2] As founder, VP, and General Manager of WebRadio.com, a corporate spin-off, he took the company from inception to a $441 million market valuation within 5 months of launch on a $1.5 million budget and staff of 14, exceeding the parent company’s $330 million market cap (GIM-LSE). On April 19, 1999, he made Internet history by video webcasting one of the first live music concerts globally with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Berlin, and Missing Persons for the WebRadio launch at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas. Radio Ink Magazine predicted that Weiss was one of the "media barons of tomorrow".[citation needed]
He was VP of Marketing and Business Development at Sirius Publishing,[citation needed] and also at independent home video producer J2 Communications.[citation needed] He was a member of the start-up team, taking the company through a NASDAQ IPO and acquisition of National Lampoon.[citation needed]
At the University of Miami, Weiss was college promotion manager for Columbia Records.[citation needed] In the 1970s, Weiss was involved in the establishment of the music industry’s first record pool and was one of Chicago’s most popular club DJs.[citation needed]
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