Michael Weiss (Streamcast)

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Michael Weiss is an Internet entrepreneur. He launched one of the niche's very first retail outlets in 1978. In 2005, he was appointed ‘Fellow’ by the U.K. based World Technology Network. ^{[citation needed]}

Weiss was founding CEO of StreamCast Networks, which launched the Morpheus P2P application.^[1]^[2] As founder, VP and General Manager of WebRadio.com, a corporate spin-off, he took the company from inception to $441 million market valuation within 5 months of launch on $1.5M budget & 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 1st live music concerts globally with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Berlin & 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".

He was VP Marketing & 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 company through NASDAQ IPO and acquisition of National Lampoon.^{[citation needed]}

At University of Miami, Weiss was college promotion manager for Columbia Records.^{[citation needed]} In the 70’s, Weiss was involved in the establishment of the music industry’s first record pool and was one of Chicago’s most popular club DJ’s.^{[citation needed]}

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