Gavin Baker
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2,717 appearances
14 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jun
Gavin Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He left in 97, after two years, to launch Replay TV, which was a digital video recorder DVR.
You'd have something coming in over the antenna and you would be able to record it and watch it later, much like TiVo.
TiVo was their main competitor.
In 2002, he founded Roku, his sixth startup to market home devices.
Roku means six in Japanese.
And he's just like, it's the sixth time I'm doing this.
Imagine being on the sixth startup.
I'm number four or three or something like that.
He also worked at Netflix.
But the Roku history is sort of interesting.
So he founded Replay TV.
Replay TV was not successful, so he worked at Netflix.
In 2007, Wood's company began working with Netflix on Project Griffin, a set-top box.
Netflix was thinking about getting into hardware, and it would allow Netflix users to stream Netflix content to their TVs.
They were working on the Apple TV, basically.
It was a crazy fork in the road.
A few weeks before the project was due to launch, Netflix's founder, Reed Hastings, decided that it would hamper license agreements with third parties.
It was all of our third parties.
third-party license agreements.
They're giving us content.
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