Like a lot of so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas, Philo began in a college dorm room. When our founders got tired of the lack of cable TV options on Harvard’s campus, they decided to make it happen themselves. Then all of their friends were asking for access… and the first version of Philo was created soon after. Within Philo’s pilot year on campus, almost half the student body used the service to watch television right from their computers