Livepeer is an open, permissionless network that turns idle GPUs around the world into a decentralized marketplace for video infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, it began as a low-cost alternative to centralized video transcoding and has since expanded into real-time AI video - letting developers generate, transform and interpret live streams on a token-incentivized GPU network rather than expensive cloud providers.
Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer, a decentralized network that turns idle GPUs around the world into open video infrastructure. A University of Pennsylvania computer scientist and three-time founder, he built and sold Hyperpublic to Groupon and shipped an Apple App of the Year at Wildcard before betting on blockchain in 2016. Today he is steering Livepeer squarely at real-time AI video, arguing the open internet should not be rebuilt on the same handful of cloud giants it set out to escape.