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Talk Fusion Corporate: The Face in Your Inbox, the Sale Behind It
Talk Fusion packages a human face, a branded email and a commission plan into one proposition. Its most revealing feature is the choice it offers at checkout: become a customer, or become a promoter.
Talk Fusion and the Ten-Second Video That Became a Sales Pitch
A failed email attachment gave Bob Reina an idea. Talk Fusion turned it into video-marketing software - and a business opportunity with a very different set of questions.
Brightcove and the business of being invisible
Brightcove once wanted viewers to come to its own video site. Its enduring business was helping everyone else run theirs - a lesson in the surprisingly valuable machinery behind the play button.
Sean Cannell and the Long Road to Pressing Record
A church volunteer was handed a camera in 2003. More than two decades later, Sean Cannell teaches millions of creators the lesson he learned by making videos when almost nobody was watching: keep going, and make the next one better.
The Influencer Agency Built Before TikTok Had a Name
Clicks Talent learned influencer marketing by solving a stranger problem: how to make a brand-new social app feel inhabited. The answer became a global agency - and a useful lesson in why relationships still beat databases.
Tyler Lessard Built a Marketing Career by Looking Outside-In
An engineer learned he was better at explaining technology than coding it. Two decades later, Tyler Lessard is still turning that discovery into a practical lesson for B2B marketers: earn an audience before asking it to buy.
Jasper Story Is Teaching AI to Sweat the Cut
A former maths teacher, Google contractor and startup generalist is turning the fussy craft of product video into a system teams can direct with words. His bet is that automation matters most when it leaves the story feeling human.
Viddsee
Viddsee is a Singapore-based video entertainment company that curates, distributes and markets short-form premium content from Asia. Founded in 2013 by engineer-filmmakers Ho Jia Jian and Derek Tan, it began as a Facebook page sharing regional short films and grew into a multi-platform network reaching millions of monthly viewers. Beyond its consumer streaming platform, Viddsee runs Viddsee Studios, a branded-content production arm serving brands and government agencies, and Viddsee for Good, a social-impact storytelling initiative, plus the Viddsee Juree Awards that spotlight emerging Southeast Asian filmmakers.
Goldcast
Goldcast is an AI-first B2B video content platform that helps marketing teams host webinars and virtual events, then automatically turn those recordings into clips, blogs, social posts, and on-demand video that drive pipeline. Founded in 2020 by three Harvard Business School classmates during the pandemic shift to virtual events, the Boston-based company grew past $10M ARR serving 300+ B2B customers before being acquired by events giant Cvent in December 2025.
PlayPlay
PlayPlay is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that lets communication and marketing teams turn ideas and text into professional, on-brand videos without editing skills. Its browser-based platform pairs drag-and-drop templates with AI tools - avatars, auto-subtitles, voice-over, translation and clipping - plus enterprise brand governance. Founded in 2017 by Thibaut Machet, Aurelien Dayres and Clement Moracin, PlayPlay is used by 3,000+ companies including IBM, L'Oreal and Booking.com, and has raised roughly $65.8M, led by a $55M Series B from Insight Partners in 2022.
Restream
Restream is a browser-based live streaming platform that lets creators, businesses, and organizations broadcast a single video feed simultaneously to more than 30 destinations - including YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. Its flagship Restream Studio adds guests, overlays, scenes, and a unified multi-platform chat, while AI Clips automatically turns live recordings into short vertical videos for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Founded in Ukraine in 2015 and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Restream serves over 5 million users and raised a $50M Series A in 2020.
JobPixel
JobPixel is a San Francisco enterprise video platform that helps talent-acquisition and marketing teams collect, edit, brand, and distribute authentic user-generated video from employees, candidates, and customers. Founded in 2020 by Omar Khateeb and Anthony Duerr, it aims to humanize hiring by moving beyond the resume - letting companies build employer brand and screen candidates with short-form video at enterprise scale.
Brent Chudoba
Brent Chudoba is the CEO of Biteable, a remote-first video creation platform that has helped more than seven million people make studio-quality videos. He spent a decade as a senior operator (COO, CFO, CRO and GM roles) at some of the internet's best-known productivity companies including Calendly, Thrive Global, PicMonkey and SurveyMonkey, where he was employee number fourteen. Before operating, he was an investor at Spectrum Equity and an investment banker at Piper Jaffray. Today he also teaches a cohort-based course on Maven, Startup Leadership Unleashed, distilling what he learned scaling teams.