Sam Reich
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I think it behooves us
to have that group be larger because it means better resources for our business as well.
You know, we depend on third party technology in order to power dropout.
And, you know, if there aren't enough streamers to use Vimeo OTT or, you know.
They're not going to keep supporting the product.
No, we tried.
People don't realize this.
The first rendition of Dropout was built on Vimeo OTT's API, but it was our own product.
And we employed something like eight sophisticated engineers at IAC to build our own product around it.
And it was brutal, which is to say it's just very hard to do very well.
And these were great engineers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Technically, I think I have like two or three.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
What we decided pretty recently, like within the last year, is that I should have almost no direct reports, like basically just the C-suite.
And then everyone else should follow should fall under someone else.
Okay.
But that's pretty new.