Studio71 Co-Founders Reunite to Launch Underscore Talent Management Firm
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThree of the execs who co-founded digital content studio Studio71 — Reza Izad, Dan Weinstein and Michael Green — have teamed up for a new venture: Underscore Talent, which they tout as a next-generation management company for creators.Studio71, founded in 2007 as Collective Digital Studios (CDS), is owned by German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, which acquired full control of CDS in 2015. Green left Studio71 in 2017, and Izad and Weinstein stepped away from the company last fall.Joining Underscore Talent’s trio of co-founders as partners are Austin Mayster, previously digital agent at UTA and manager at Studio71; Linnea Toney, formerly at Ryan Seacrest Prods.