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The Austrians Who Wrote the Rulebook for How the Internet Plays Video
Stefan Lederer and his co-founders helped write MPEG-DASH during their PhDs. Then they built a company on top of it - and won an Emmy for the encoding tech that keeps modern streaming from choking.
Mux
Mux is the video API for developers. The San Francisco company gives engineers a simple set of endpoints for live streaming, on-demand video, encoding, playback, and quality-of-experience analytics, so they can ship video features without rebuilding the streaming stack from scratch.
Jon Dahl
Jon Dahl is the co-founder and CEO of Mux, a developer-first video infrastructure platform that powers video at scale for companies like Robinhood, PBS, and ViacomCBS. A serial founder who sold Zencoder to Brightcove for $30M in 2012 and co-created Video.js — the most widely deployed open-source video player on the web — Dahl has spent two decades turning the complexity of online video into simple, powerful APIs for developers. Mux has raised $173.9M in total funding, achieved unicorn status in 2021, and processes several billion monthly video streams.
Lihua Zhu
Lihua Zhu is the CEO of WiFi Master Key at LinkSure Network, a Singapore-headquartered mobile internet company serving hundreds of millions of users globally with free, secure Wi-Fi connectivity. With a career spanning Princeton research labs, Microsoft engineering, Alibaba's DingTalk, and Momo Technology, Zhu brings a rare combination of deep academic research and large-scale operational execution to one of the world's most widely used connectivity apps.