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Stacy Spikes Highlight
You have the opportunity to be the one who walks through doors first. If you get to that door and keep it open, other people can run through it behind you.
About Stacy
- Born and raised in Texas.
- From the time he was young, has always been motivated by curiosity and his desire to solve problems.
- After graduating high school, he was supposed to go to college, but ended up joining a band and moving to Los Angeles—says it was like “he ran away with the circus.”
- He always had an interest in the film and music industries, but eventually realized that he wasn’t interested in being the “artist” and was more intrigued by the business side of things.
- In order to pay his bills, he got a job at Motown Records working in the marketing department—by the time he was 21, he was managing artists like Boyz II Men, Queen Latifah, and Eddie Murphy.
- He went on to work as the Vice President of Marketing for Sony, Miramax, and Focus Features.
- In 1997, after noticing the lack of diversity represented in film, he founded The Urbanworld Film Festival, one of the largest internationally competitive festivals showcasing diversity in film.
- In 2011, he co-founded Movie Pass, a subscription service that gives you access to movies in theaters nationwide for a monthly fee, and has recently launched a new company, PreShow, on Kickstarter.
