
A brother's gift, a tutorial made during university, and a rejected consulting job turned a teenage hobby into a global tech channel. The giant working iPhone in Maini's basement is an unusually literal measure of how far that idea grew.
A lacrosse video with 500 views introduced Colin Rosenblum to Samir Chaudry. A sale, a bruising stretch of uncertainty, and thousands of questions later, they have built a media company around the business of making things online.
Dave Wiskus is the founder and CEO of Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service he launched in 2019 with a group of independent YouTubers, and of Standard, the talent company behind it. Before building a streaming platform pitched as an A24 for online video, he was a respected human interface designer who co-founded Q Branch with John Gruber and Brent Simmons to make the note-taking app Vesper. He also fronts the New York synth-rock band Airplane Mode and co-hosted the podcast Unprofessional.