Matt Strauss

Thank you, Eli. It's good to be here.

Thank you, Eli. It's good to be here.

Thank you, Eli. It's good to be here.

You know, maybe just to give you a little bit of a background, I actually just celebrated my 20-year anniversary at Comcast. And so I've been at the company for quite a long time. When I came to Comcast, I actually came there as cable was transitioning from analog to digital. And it gave way to the two-way connectivity that ultimately built things like on-demand.

You know, maybe just to give you a little bit of a background, I actually just celebrated my 20-year anniversary at Comcast. And so I've been at the company for quite a long time. When I came to Comcast, I actually came there as cable was transitioning from analog to digital. And it gave way to the two-way connectivity that ultimately built things like on-demand.

You know, maybe just to give you a little bit of a background, I actually just celebrated my 20-year anniversary at Comcast. And so I've been at the company for quite a long time. When I came to Comcast, I actually came there as cable was transitioning from analog to digital. And it gave way to the two-way connectivity that ultimately built things like on-demand.

And so on-demand technology is something I've been very passionate about my entire career and was really focused on how I build that out for Comcast. and spent quite a number of years doing that. And then we ultimately launched the X1 platform, which was Comcast's IP set-top box, because we realized that the future was on-demand. That was going to give people instant gratification.

And so on-demand technology is something I've been very passionate about my entire career and was really focused on how I build that out for Comcast. and spent quite a number of years doing that. And then we ultimately launched the X1 platform, which was Comcast's IP set-top box, because we realized that the future was on-demand. That was going to give people instant gratification.

And so on-demand technology is something I've been very passionate about my entire career and was really focused on how I build that out for Comcast. and spent quite a number of years doing that. And then we ultimately launched the X1 platform, which was Comcast's IP set-top box, because we realized that the future was on-demand. That was going to give people instant gratification.

And we needed a platform to allow people ultimate control, that they could navigate all these on-demand choices.

And we needed a platform to allow people ultimate control, that they could navigate all these on-demand choices.

And we needed a platform to allow people ultimate control, that they could navigate all these on-demand choices.

X1 became the platform where we did that, and it really was ahead of its time because it aggregated live and on-demand and DVR and even apps and made them all really seamless for consumers, including the ability to navigate them with your voice, with the voice remote, which was before even Siri and Alexa, like we were experimenting with voice.

X1 became the platform where we did that, and it really was ahead of its time because it aggregated live and on-demand and DVR and even apps and made them all really seamless for consumers, including the ability to navigate them with your voice, with the voice remote, which was before even Siri and Alexa, like we were experimenting with voice.

X1 became the platform where we did that, and it really was ahead of its time because it aggregated live and on-demand and DVR and even apps and made them all really seamless for consumers, including the ability to navigate them with your voice, with the voice remote, which was before even Siri and Alexa, like we were experimenting with voice.

And I think as my career there kind of grew and I took on more of the role of overseeing the residential services at Comcast, which included video and broadband and phone, I got a call one day to come to NBC, which obviously is a subsidiary of Comcast. And I got a call from Steve Burke, who at the time was the CEO.

And I think as my career there kind of grew and I took on more of the role of overseeing the residential services at Comcast, which included video and broadband and phone, I got a call one day to come to NBC, which obviously is a subsidiary of Comcast. And I got a call from Steve Burke, who at the time was the CEO.

And I think as my career there kind of grew and I took on more of the role of overseeing the residential services at Comcast, which included video and broadband and phone, I got a call one day to come to NBC, which obviously is a subsidiary of Comcast. And I got a call from Steve Burke, who at the time was the CEO.

You know, he had asked if I would come there to help them build a streaming service and take it to market. And I got that call on a Thursday, and Monday I showed up in New York City with my suitcase and I was ready to go. And what's very common inside of large companies, in my experience, is that when you're trying to build something new, it's common to almost incubate it.

You know, he had asked if I would come there to help them build a streaming service and take it to market. And I got that call on a Thursday, and Monday I showed up in New York City with my suitcase and I was ready to go. And what's very common inside of large companies, in my experience, is that when you're trying to build something new, it's common to almost incubate it.