Chris Savage

The most valuable things, they don't happen quickly. They take a long time.

The most valuable things, they don't happen quickly. They take a long time.

Everything we do is about making it easy for you to get more value out of your video and enable you to use video better.

Everything we do is about making it easy for you to get more value out of your video and enable you to use video better.

We thought we would do this for six months and then get rich. We thought that's how startups worked. It took a lot longer than I thought before things really started to connect and work. It's very hard to know if you're doing the right stuff, but if you do it long enough, you end up training your intuition.

We thought we would do this for six months and then get rich. We thought that's how startups worked. It took a lot longer than I thought before things really started to connect and work. It's very hard to know if you're doing the right stuff, but if you do it long enough, you end up training your intuition.

The first thing I would say is...

The first thing I would say is...

Definitely not an overnight success, no. Yeah, I started Wistia with my best friend from college, Brendan Schwartz, and we thought it would be an overnight success. We thought we would do this for six months and then get rich. We thought that's how startups worked. And that's not how they work. It took a lot longer than I thought. before things really started to connect and work.

Definitely not an overnight success, no. Yeah, I started Wistia with my best friend from college, Brendan Schwartz, and we thought it would be an overnight success. We thought we would do this for six months and then get rich. We thought that's how startups worked. And that's not how they work. It took a lot longer than I thought. before things really started to connect and work.

And it ended up being a lot more fun than I thought. And I also realized you can take things much farther than you think. And so, yes, that's how I would think about it now.

And it ended up being a lot more fun than I thought. And I also realized you can take things much farther than you think. And so, yes, that's how I would think about it now.

Yeah, so basically I had worked on a feature-length documentary in college and was very fortunate that we got distribution and won a bunch of film festivals and stuff. And I watched the filmmaker who had put so much into this movie. I watched it basically at the last second not get full distribution. And this is before streaming online, really.

Yeah, so basically I had worked on a feature-length documentary in college and was very fortunate that we got distribution and won a bunch of film festivals and stuff. And I watched the filmmaker who had put so much into this movie. I watched it basically at the last second not get full distribution. And this is before streaming online, really.

So that was an industry that was gate-kept, which is not surprising. That's how the entertainment industry works. But I saw that so early and I was like, ah, this seems rough. This seems like a hard thing to work on something and actually have everyone tell you it's really great and then still not get distribution.

So that was an industry that was gate-kept, which is not surprising. That's how the entertainment industry works. But I saw that so early and I was like, ah, this seems rough. This seems like a hard thing to work on something and actually have everyone tell you it's really great and then still not get distribution.

and she had spent four years five years on it i had spent three and a half years on it four years on it myself so that was the backdrop and then i graduated from college in 2005 the movie came out at the same time and very soon after youtube launched and i saw youtube and i was like whoa this is different

and she had spent four years five years on it i had spent three and a half years on it four years on it myself so that was the backdrop and then i graduated from college in 2005 the movie came out at the same time and very soon after youtube launched and i saw youtube and i was like whoa this is different

And one of the things was different about it was I had tried to be a part of these online film communities before YouTube. And I was pretty tech savvy and had a bunch of short films and I could get the videos online and they never took off. It was very bizarre. There's a lot of community building and not that much sharing of video. And so seeing YouTube, it was so different.

And one of the things was different about it was I had tried to be a part of these online film communities before YouTube. And I was pretty tech savvy and had a bunch of short films and I could get the videos online and they never took off. It was very bizarre. There's a lot of community building and not that much sharing of video. And so seeing YouTube, it was so different.