jon_dahl

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Mux is hiring its first salesperson. Join the team behind Zencoder and Video.js(muxhq.workable.com)
1 points by jon_dahl 10y ago
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Mux is hiring a designer. Join the team behind Zencoder, Video.js, and Demuxed(muxhq.workable.com)
1 points by jon_dahl 10y ago
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Buffering reduces video watch time by ~40%, according to research(mux.com)
5 points by jon_dahl 10y ago|0 comments
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by jon_dahl 10y ago
Actually, email isn't a bad analogy. Video is complicated, and most people shouldn't build their own proprietary technology. But the outsourcing often happens at the API level: if you use a third-party CDN, transcoder, player, and
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by jon_dahl 10y ago
FWIW, we feel pretty good about the market size we're tackling. YouTube and Netflix are massive, but you might be surprised how much video is delivered by media companies and non-video technology companies on their own platforms, and t
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by jon_dahl 10y ago
Yep, we work with a few players now, and have several others in development. Ultimately, we'll work with every major web player and mobile/OTT device. You can also roll your own integration if you have a custom player, though if i
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by jon_dahl 10y ago
Hey everyone - Jon from Mux here. We've been hard at work on this since January, and are excited to start showing off what we're working on. Happy to answer any questions, or take any feedback!
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Why the Creators of Zencoder and Video.js Started Mux(mux.com)
57 points by jon_dahl 10y ago|10 comments
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by jon_dahl 10y ago
Our bad. Fixed now.
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by jon_dahl 11y ago
I think the whole point of Tesla is to be an excellent car company. "Electric" and "self-driving" just happen to be two attributes of an excellent car company at this particular point in history.
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by jon_dahl 11y ago
From the inside, there is far more talk at YC about building a good business and getting profitable than about raising money. PG has advocated this for a long time[1], and YC continues to encourage this. The YC way is "Make something p
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by jon_dahl 11y ago
What a false dichotomy: Stanford or life as a service worker. Both Google and YC have stopped focusing on college prestige in their hiring/acceptance, because it wasn't a particularly strong indicator of success. I would much rath
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by jon_dahl 11y ago
I had the same experience with Anathem. It is a little hard to get in at first. But about 200 pages in, it really starts rolling. Great mix of world, plot, characters, and ideas. (Ultimately, it is a mashup of Plato and quantum mechanics.)
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by jon_dahl 12y ago
A lot of people have this fear. Amazon is a quickly expanding platform with a growing level of lock-in and immense power. This isn't good for the ecosystem - a dominant company can charge a premium, and choice is good. Full disclosure:
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by jon_dahl 13y ago
Don't you mean: Sell your company for $360M. Join the new company as CTO, and sell for $3.4B. IPO your next company. Get millions in VC. Foolproof.
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by jon_dahl 13y ago
Be careful, though. For every legitimately good startup that gets to know the YC partners through other channels, there are 1,000 founders who just look desperate. You only have so much time. Building a great company is the most effective
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by jon_dahl 13y ago
Quick answer: links. Hypertext. It's important enough to the original vision of this whole contraption to actually be the name. While were reminiscing... In 1994, the web felt like technology. You typed in " http://&quot
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by jon_dahl 13y ago
If you're a non-junior engineer, and one of the first ~10 employees, this is fairly common. At least at the point of issuance; 2-3 VC rounds reduces the percentage (but increases the value, at least in theory).
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by jon_dahl 13y ago
This is the way to do it. Not every acquisition means that customers lose.
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Zencoder is hiring: Ruby, C, or cloud ops at high scale(zencoder.com)
1 points by jon_dahl 13y ago
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by jon_dahl 13y ago
This is a strange distinction. It sounds like you're defining "discrimination" as "judgment" or even just "making a decision", whereas you're defining "prejudice" in a way that most people would consider a synonym for "discrimination". I'm
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Announcing Cloud Transcoding for Live Video(blog.zencoder.com)
38 points by jon_dahl 14y ago|5 comments
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
Zencoder - San Francisco - Ruby Engineers, Video Engineers, and Dev Ops Zencoder transcodes millions of videos each month for a thousand customers like Khan Academy, IGN, NFL, and Amazon. We're a small team of really talented engineers solv
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
People come to Zencoder wanting this, but it isn't really what we do. Not sure how big it is, but there is a market for this.
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Video engineers wanted. Great team, leading product, passionate customers(zencoder.com)
1 points by jon_dahl 14y ago
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
Zencoder here. Amazon has done a good job of making their pricing look simpler/cheaper than ours, and for some customers, it is. Two quick comments. 1. Our larger customers don't pay more than this already. 2. Paying 33% less doesn't necess
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
We've thought hard about Opus, FLAC, and ALAC. Don't be surprised if you see those soon...
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All I want for Christmas is my Apple TV(blog.brightcove.com)
8 points by jon_dahl 14y ago|1 comments
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Help build the future of live video encoding at Zencoder(zencoder.com)
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Post-Acquisition, Brightcove’s Zencoder Adds Live Streaming And Instant Playback(techcrunch.com)
7 points by jon_dahl 14y ago|0 comments

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