First Person News

Waze for News

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location Pasadena, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2016
  • Employees 5
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website firstperson.news

Company Summary

First Person brings a new paradigm to the broadcast journalism space with an app and platform that allows anyone to upload video-centric news stories into a curated platform and provides a lean back experience for news junkies and millennials who turn to their smart phones for news.

We are solving the fragmented experience users face on where to upload news video which can get lost on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and the polarizing nature of traditional broadcast media with our app and platform which allows multiple POV’s around news stories with the end goal to create a viable mobile news network along with a new source for local news and a marketplace rewarding independent journalists.

Team

  • co-founder

    Asif has been in the tech space running product teams for several major companies including TVGUIDE.COM, REALTOR.COM, AT&T YELLOWPAGES.COM and Technicolor. Ahmed built the local business video product for AT&T taking it from inception with zero revenue to gross more than $50m in four short years. He built the product leveraging crowd sourced filmmaker networks who were dispatched nationwide to shoot videos of local businesses.

  • co-Founder

    Gregory Hutchinson is a product guy and storyteller. He is the founder of Intoo, an early stage startup focused on people and the passions they share about particular products. Previously Gregory worked for Technicolor Ventures, incubating several early stage startups as well as helping a couple of social network products with product, growth and successful exits including Creative District (web) and Ultravisual (iOS).

  • Randy is an application inventor/designer/developer for embedded & browser applications and middleware-frameworks for SmartTVs, "OTT" consumer electronic platforms as well as mobile.
    Randy has extensive experience in user interface design, graphic artistry, and all the programming needed to encompass an entire application development. Rnady implemented Sony's Crackle application. Randy also worked as an engineer for Apple.

  • UK Operations

    Noel is an award-winning, product management, marketing and business operations professional who is focussed on bringing First Person to the UK and Europe by building strategic partnerships and helping to recruit a user base.

Advisors

  • Mike Sims
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Professor of Journalism

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