Mitch Lowe

Mitch Lowe is a top business and entertainment keynote speaker, former President of Redbox, and founding executive of Netflix. Today, Mitch gives inspirational speeches around the world to corporations, conferences and students sharing stories of innovation, disruption and facing the challenges of building new products and services.

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Mitch Lowe was one of the early pioneers in the movie rental industry, opening video rental stores in the early 1980’s building a chain of stores in Northern California called Video Droid. Mitch was active in the trade association representing that nascent industry and served on its national board and as President. In the early ‘80s, Mitch tried to launch VHS video rental kiosks as well as a subscription-based website provider. In the late 90’s, Mitch joined Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings at Netflix as the video industry expert at Netflix. As VP of Business Development and Strategic Alliances for Netflix’s first five years, and as a member of its core executive team Mitch led many of the partnerships that drove new subscribers to join Netflix, such as its partnership with Best Buy and DVD manufacturers.

Mitch left Netflix in 2003 after a successful IPO and joined the business development team at McDonalds Ventures to build a DVD vending machine business called Redbox. Mitch served as its COO and President for eight years, growing the company from $36k in first-year revenue to over $1.5B in revenue eight years later. He left in late 2011 and began investing in startups in various spaces, eventually going to Moviepass as its President in 2016. Most recently, Mitch received the “Distinguished Mentor Award 2021” from The Abrahamic Business Circle headquartered in Dubai.

Over the past few years, Mitch has also produced several movies including Gotti, American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally, and 10 Minutes Gone. As well as the recently premiered documentary on the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi that premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022.

Mitch Lowe speaks on the future of leadership, entrepreneurship, company culture, the $2 trillion entertainment industry, and the Metaverse. Mitch also speaks on strategic product launches —- and the critical roles of intuition, perseverance, analytical thinking, and love. Today Mitch provides consultancy services to companies around the world focusing on entertainment strategies and organizational innovation.

His book “Watch and Learn: How I Turned Hollywood Upside Down with Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass? Lessons in Disruption” was released in September 2022. In the Foreword written by Netflix Co-Founder Mark Randolph, Marc writes “Whether you’re just starting out in business or already have a long track record of success, you’ll find plenty to learn from a man who has seen it all, done most of it, and met everyone. You’’ see…there’s nobody else like Mitch.”