 20070413 My first online video
The first video I ever posted on the Internet on VimeoI uploaded this to my blog (then zacharyklein.com) on June 1, 2000 while interning at Lincoln Financial Group in Fort Wayne, IN. I was 17. My boss assigned me to learn how to use an awesome piece of equipment they owned called a Pinnacle StreamFactory, which is an encoding device that took a live video feed and pushed out four different encodes simultaneously to a streaming server. Until I unwrapped it, it had been sitting in a closet unused. Their original idea was to use this to broadcast live stockholder events to remote stockholders over the internet. This machine spurred me to think that there was huge business potential in helping people stream their live events -- I planned to approach my school about broadcasting basketball games. I spent the whole summer obsessing over the idea. Seven years later, we're now just on the cusp of this concept becoming ubiquitous. 7
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Sarah said... aaaw.. look at that cute dimple.. and those pretty eyes!! dang.. 17.. you looked super young!!!! 11:54 AM Mike Lemovitz said... This is so awesome. I wish I had backed everything I've made up. It'd make for an interesting journey. 10:20 PM said... Killer hair man! 6:29 AM John said... I remember that video! 9:23 AM Fetchy said... Don't worry Zach, the stream factory is still up and running... what its running? well its not being used for anything but its still powered up and sitting there! http://www.flickr.com/photos/fetcho/461713368/ 1:19 PM Heather said... I can't believe 2000 was that long ago... Very cute. 8:14 PM said... so cute!! 11:00 AM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |