Operator era · pre-50/FiftyStreaming / Media
PlutoTV
Outcome
Acquired by Viacom (now Paramount).
Operator
Head of Growth at the venture firm that ran their go-to-market
Era
Operator era · pre-50/Fifty
The problem
Where the work actually began.
Free ad-supported streaming was a new category when no one yet believed in it. The work was to turn a conviction bet into distribution, audience, and the numbers that make an acquirer stop arguing.
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Category positioning against a pre-cord-cutting audience.
02
Growth systems built from cold — paid, partnerships, earned.
03
Distribution plays with device and platform partners.
04
Metrics architecture that made the acquisition conversation clean.
Human principal + named agents. The roster lives at /team
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