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The deal that changed new Nine CEO Mike Sneesby’s career

The deal that changed new Nine CEO Mike Sneesby’s career

At 3am on an August morning in 2014, Mike Sneesby helped close a deal that was pivotal to the Stan streaming service, and to his own future ambitions.

Mike Sneesby is the new CEO of Nine. Louie Douvis

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If it weren’t for a spivvy lawyer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mike Sneesby might not be Nine Entertainment’s new chief executive.

That’s not as weird as it sounds. At about 3am on August 27, 2014, Sneesby helped close a deal with Sony Entertainment, which would, among other shows, include Better Call Saul, a spin-off of critically acclaimed hit Breaking Bad, following the path of fictional lawyer Jimmy McGill into becoming his alias, the notorious and greedy criminal defender Saul Goodman.

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