In five years, Revrie From friends’ ideas to the biggest LGBTQ + streaming service on the App Store, with great original movies, shows, music and podcasts – and growing day by day.
Founded in 2016 by Damien Pelicion, Alia Daniels, Lashoon McGregor and Christopher Rodriguez; Revrie Bone surgery, however, is gaining momentum. In the last 18 months alone, the team has doubled to 30 employees.
At the meeting, we met Pelicion. House of PrideThe app’s new variety of shows, to talk about the power of street marketing and what real representation looks like.
Revrie He is now an industry leader in LGBTQ + media, but in the early days, how did he get the word out?
Before we start, we will hit the streets of San Francisco on Saturday before the pride. We printed T-shirts and obscene flyers, and we went around to show the app. We weren’t the best at it, but people said, “Are you shopping on the street?” They would ask us. And I say, “No, I’m the CEO, that’s CBO, that’s our CFO.” We had an interview over the weekend. McWorld And Auckland TV.
How to get new talent and content to grow. RevrieLibrary?
We traveled from Brazil to Israel to the Mumbai Film Festival. We browse YouTube for the best videos we want to license. Now I am walking around the stage of our special show in LA; We have 25 influencers and musicians and comedians and drag queens.
You can tell us about the group behind it. Revrie?
We represent a very large community of immigrants, bisexuals, Hispanics, African Americans, LGBTQ +, patriots. I am proud to say that more than 65 percent of our staff are colored and 70 percent are women. The director I work with today is a woman and the producer is a trans man. That’s not mandatory – that’s organic. Representation looks like this: It starts with ownership and starts with leadership.
What advice would you give to other employers?
Fall fast and learn great. Those failures are your school – it teaches you how to succeed in life. When you are ready to receive the world, the world will be ready to give it to you.
What was your most encouraging moment?
I still have a letter from the son of Qero in Saudi Arabia, “I have identified myself as gay, and I did not know this community existed until I downloaded your application. For the first time in my life, I represented myself. That is not the last letter we received, but the first. It is framed and has a coffee table in my office. This is my motivation to go to work; It’s like winning an academic award over and over again.
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