Industry Standard 21: Dick Glover

Dick Glover is President and CEO of Funny Or Die, and a former top level executive at NASCAR, WWE, and espn (where he developed and launched espn.com). Under Glover’s leadership at Funny Or Die, it has grown into a vertically integrated 21st century digital studio that produces high quality content over numerous platforms, operates a social media and marketing division with 7.6 million Twitter followers (#1 Comedy Brand), and over 3.4 million devoted followers on a plethora of social networking sites.  Funny Or Die’s website continues to be the leader in original online comedy video production and distribution with over 16 million unique visitors each month and 60 million monthly video streams. Funny Or Die’s slate of off-net production includes tv (“@midnight” on Comedy Central/HBO’s “Funny Or Die Presents”), film (“Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie”), merchandising (Hasbro just launched the Funny Or Die board game), and personal appearance tours (“The Oddball Comedy Festival” 14-city tour starring Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchords). Glover is one of the few CEO’s who continues to demonstrate that Hollywood and Silicon Valley can thrive together. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.