Proposal to Quibi CEO Meg Whitman (by William)

Dear Ms. Whitman,

Inspired and blown away!  This was how I felt after listening to you and Mr. Haaga’s talk about American Entrepreneurship at the Huntington Library on Monday night.  I agreed with your way of thinking, mainly, we have a choice to do an “easy wrong” or a “hard right.”  In the case of eBay, you camped at the company for three weeks to fix a technical problem.  According to you, it was “the right thing to do.”  Setting up a donation system after Hurricane Katrina was the “hard right” as well, but the funds helped many people to recover from the disaster.  A “hard right” in my life is to stand up for kids being bullied in school, picking up candy wrap from the library floor, or help my parents with chores in the house.    

My name is William, a middle schooler.  We discussed about possible collaboration between Quibi and my YouTube Channel after the talk, and you kindly told me your email address.  I understood Quibi’s business objective is to provide high quality streaming videos for the millennials, while the millennials’ children are young and don’t have their own phones, so those kids are using their parents’ phones at night and weekends, between activities, in the cars…  If you go to any family orientated restaurants such as Souplantation or Mimi’s Cafe, you will see many kids holding their parents’ phones.  If Quibi can provide high quality educational contents to millennials’ children, such as 10 minutes singing classes or drawing lessons, the $7.99 membership fee will be such a bargain, and Quibi can build brand loyalty among 60 million children in the age between 1 to 14, in US alone.

It’s a sad fact that most public schools do not provide singing classes after the budget cut.  Kids who do not sing are like birds lost their voices.  If the elementary school teachers can connect their cell phones with classroom projectors, and have a 10 minutes singing class watching Quibi, teachers will get a precious break, and kids can be singing birds again.  I am very lucky that my childhood memories are always associated with songs.  Michael Jackson’s Thriller zombie dance ended my pre-school days.  My first summer camp’s singing class filled my heart with joy, and I still remember the very moment when the pianist started playing Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music. In elementary school, I sang at the talent shows and those were the special moments of my life.  I hope my kids and grandkids will love the songs that I once sang along again and again using my mom’s phone--I still don’t have my own phone and once my parents sign up for Quibi, I most probably will be your future customer. 

Quibi can collaborate with my choir Los Angeles Children’s Chorus to produce 10 minutes singing clips, so kids can learn singing in the right way in class room, and on the go.  Music directors in my choir, such as Mrs. Brigham and Mr. Fernando are fabulous music educators, and Quibi may change may children’s lives by filling in the void of public schools, just like what eBay did for Katrina victims.  Please let me know what do you think of my proposal, and I can help arrange the collaboration.      

Please visit my YouTube channel The Children’s Show (my newest adventure, just started with my choir friend Phoebe two weeks ago) at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDUFCmCiFK-0arSMTpb4t3A  and my blog (started since my partner and I were in the 2^nd grade) at http://worldthroughchildrenseyes.blogspot.com/

Thank you very much Ms. Whitman.

(Note: Event link from Huntington Library:
https://www.huntington.org/events/centennial-paul-haaga-jr-program-american-entrepreneurship)