The Jordan Harbinger Show

Mitch Lowe (@mitch__lowe) is a co-founding executive of Netflix, the former CEO of MoviePass, the former president of Redbox, and the author of Watch and Learn: How I Turned Hollywood Upside Down with Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass ? Lessons in Disruption. [This is part one of a two-part episode. Be on the lookout for part two later this week!] What We Discuss with Mitch Lowe: How Mitch's first entrepreneurial adventure involved peddling blacklight posters in Europe at the behest of a shady character by the name of Funky Sam. What Mitch learned from befriending people on both sides of the conflict in Israel while living there in the '70s. How Mitch got deported from Egypt as a spy and accidentally witnessed something he shouldn’t have. How Mitch's terrible investment in a video store led to innovations that would make Netflix — the company he co-founded — wrench domination from entrenched rivals in the video rental industry. Did Mitch really fake a heart attack to get out of a meeting with Walmart execut