Here’s something you may not know about SmallHD CEO Wes Phillips: not once but twice, he and a small group of collaborators (including company CTO Dale Backus) won the Doritos Crash the Superbowl Contest. The whole experience — including a $600,000 prize that helped fuel the company’s growth — was a shot in the arm as Phillips got SmallHD’s signature line of highly portable field monitors off the ground. (You can see the whole story unfold in a short documentary on the early days of SmallHD co-executive produced by Shane Hurlbut, ASC.) SmallHD has recently branched out with bigger, brighter production monitors built for durable HDR display as Phillips seeks to solve more problems faced by production companies on the cutting edge of technology. www.smallhd.com
