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David Kashak and the Useful Pivot
He began with a prototype, an old relationship and publishers too small to fear an experiment. A decade later, David Kashak’s most revealing achievement is not merely Connatix’s scale, but his habit of changing the product before the market changed the company.
Shachar Orren Left the Newsroom - Then Built the Business Meant to Keep Newsrooms in Business
After nearly a decade editing other people’s stories, Shachar Orren joined a six-person startup and learned to sell. Twelve years, one rebrand and several pivots later, she is still working on the same stubborn question: how can publishers turn attention into a business without making the audience pay the price?
Gordon Daily Put Live Video on Autopilot - Now He’s Fixing the Sound
A funeral-home request became a broadcasting company. Seventeen years later, the Cleveland engineer behind BoxCast is still chasing the same stubborn idea: live production should work without requiring a control room full of experts.
Tom Pachys
Tom Pachys is the co-founder and CEO of EX.CO, a Disney-backed video technology and monetization platform used by publishers including Hearst, CBSi, Time, Nasdaq, and VICE. He started building websites at 12, served in an elite Israeli intelligence-technology unit, was an early leader at SundaySky, and co-founded the machine-learning startup Whimado before co-founding Playbuzz in 2012, which he rebranded into EX.CO in 2019. He now leads roughly 160 people worldwide, betting that AI and supply-path optimization can rescue the economics of online video for the open web.
Steve Heffernan
Steve Heffernan is the co-founder and product architect at Mux, the developer-first video infrastructure platform, and creator of Video.js - the open-source HTML5 video player powering playback on Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Dropbox with over 38,700 GitHub stars. Previously co-founded Zencoder (YC W10), the cloud video encoding startup acquired by Brightcove for $30M in 2012. A self-described hacker on video, he is now leading the ground-up rebuild of Video.js v10 at Mux, which raised $105M Series D in 2021.