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Marie-Véronique Lacaze and the problem nobody could see
Customers could see the errors. Their internet provider could not. Marie-Véronique Lacaze helped build Witbe around that gap, then spent more than two decades bringing the viewer’s perspective into the machinery of digital services.
Alon Maor and the shortest route to movie night
A conversation after squash became Qwilt, a company built to bring streaming video closer to its audience. Alon Maor’s career traces the patient work behind an apparently effortless press of the play button.
KIT digital put video everywhere. Then its numbers fell apart.
KIT digital sold the machinery behind multiscreen video. Its rise, accounting scandal and rebirth as Piksel show how a useful product can outlive the business story sold around it.
ALLCITY's $25 Million Bet: Local Sports Fans Still Want a Room of Their Own
The Denver company built a five-city sports network without buying game rights. Its real product is a daily habit - and the business gets interesting when that habit is strong enough to sell ads, shirts, memberships, and a seat at the watch party.
Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977, Reading, PA) is an American entrepreneur and tech visionary best known as the co-founder and first CEO of YouTube, which he built alongside Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005 and sold to Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion - just 18 months after launch. Armed with a Fine Arts degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania rather than a computer science background, Hurley's design instincts shaped YouTube's iconic UI and pioneered the embeddable video player that fueled viral growth; he had previously designed the original PayPal logo during his job interview. After stepping down from YouTube in 2010, he co-founded AVOS Systems and MixBit, launched the sports gaming platform GreenPark Sports (which raised $53M+), and in 2023 founded EyeTell, an AI-powered video script generation startup. He holds minority ownership stakes in the Golden State Warriors (NBA), LA Football Club (MLS), and Leeds United (EPL), and received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2019. Estimated at $700-800 million in net worth, Hurley remains a prolific investor and quiet force in Silicon Valley, famously reclusive despite his outsized impact on how the world creates and consumes video.