Marcos Wettreich

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marcos Wettreich

Marcos Wettreich in a photograph from his personal website.
Born November 5, 1963 (1963-11-05) (age 44)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation CEO, WeShow

Marcos Wettreich (born November 5, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an entrepreneur. He's founded several successful companies, most of which related to Internet/media/telecommunications. He was elected Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2001. His current venture is the multinational video portal WeShow.

[edit] WeShow

Founded in 2007, it's a leading company in the online video aggregation market. WeShow is a human-powered entertainment guide that provides a personalized view of the top quality videos from around the world - a gateway into the world's most popular video repositories. With a team of web editors categorizing and filtering content, WeShow offers visitors quality, relevance and convenience across 200 channels, customized for a variety of different countries and cultures. WeShow’s global team hunts down relevant video content and delivers it to viewers through its comprehensive channel system, targeted newsletters distributed to users and through a unique portfolio of video widgets (specifically designed for bloggers, website owners, social networking communities and consumers). In addition, every month the portal holds the WeShow Awards aimed at recognizing the best online videos on the Web from around the world. WeShow has already video portals dedicated to US, UK, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Japan and China, and in January 2008 its own video-related social network was launched - My WeShow - a place where users can collect videos, share them with friends and create Video Communities. It has its headquarters in New York.

[edit] Other Entrepreneurial Endeavors

  • iBest The second biggest ISP in Brazil. Wettreich founded iBest in 2001 with a US$ 5 million investment, and sold it in 2003 to Brasil Telecom for US$ 71 million. Brasil Telecom communicated to investors at the time that the purchase was due to iBest's strong brand, and transformed the company in a free ISP.
  • Mlab - The first marketing company focused on Internet in Brazil, founded in 1996 with a US$ 2 million investment, and sold in 2000 for US$ 36 million to Cemex (in order to be merged with Cemtec to create Neoris.com, today present in 8 countries in Europe, US and Latin America and with revenues over $ 200 million dollars/year). Wettreich was also Neoris board member until 2005.

[edit] External links