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Moment Maker: David Levy's Quest to Keep Real Storytelling Alive 🎥

Social Vibe founder who sold to Fox, then convinced TV rivals NBC, Turner, Fox, and Paramount to create OpenAP together instead of competing. Fights to save long-form storytelling from TikTok culture takeover. Secret obsession: planning detailed vacation itineraries for friends.

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🚀 The Entrepreneurial Escape Story: David and Joe Marchese turned their after-hours side hustle into Social Vibe, navigated early challenges, and sold to Fox.

📺 The Innovation Scale Reality Check: David learned that great ad products fail without scale—their 6-second sports ads succeeded because Google had seeded the market.

🤝 The Competition-to-Collaboration Genius: David convinced NBC, Turner, Fox, and Paramount to work together on OpenAP, turning industry rivals into innovation partners.

🎬 The Long-Form Content Crusader: David's passionate about saving long-form storytelling from the short-form content apocalypse that's dominating culture.

✈️ The Obsessive Trip Planner: Plot twist—this media executive's secret obsession is creating insanely detailed travel itineraries for friends.

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