Alexander Lasky on Clubhouse

Bio

Human / Creator / Problem Solver / Maker

Native New Yorker.

Producer and business maker focused on connecting people authentically through technology and storytelling. Serial entrepreneur 😊

Highlights include:

Co-founder and Creative Director of bthereTV, a first of its kind video platform which produced and streamed edgy documentary portraits of 1000s of celebrities in 1999 - sold to UGO.com 2005. (60 million monthly views)

Alex then founded Addictive Networks 2007, a digital creative agency working with NRDC, Jack Welch, Comcast, Bloomberg, Jose Cuervo among others and created original digital serialized programming including Man and Wife TV (8M viewers) with Fatman Scoop and eventually entered a franchise and TV development deal with MTV/Viacom based on the web series to EP and Directed the show as a Series on MTV.

In 2008 Alex created and built a social video platform for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign, called 
HillarySpeaksForMe.com for Supporters to connect with each other and Hillary and the campaign. This segued naturally into his next venture Selfie.com which he co-founded and developed in 2013. 

Selfie’s mission was to create a video messaging app for people to connect in a more authentic way, a human Twitter if you will. Alex oversaw fundraising, business development and the creative direction of his team from architecture to user experience.  It’s users included Wiz Khalifa, Michael Strahan.

In 2016 Alex sold the selfie.com and pivoted the technology to Speakup.as a topic driven social video conversation platform for people to video chat around specific topics they care about. 

Alex was also an Executive Producer of the Bernie Madoff doc ‘In God We Trust’ sold to Al Jazeera.

Alex currently sits on various boards of companies he is passionate in helping grow. He is developing a TV series and launching two new companies. Vī Aquavit and Third Element Water.

Here to learn, grow.