Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Wistia CEO, Chris Savage: Master the Art of Pivoting, How to Adapt and Grow Against the Odds | E61
12 Dec 2024
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The most valuable things, they don't happen quickly. They take a long time.
Chris Savage, co-founder and CEO of Wistia, a video for business which we're using as well.
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.
From starting in his co-founder's living room, Wistia has since grown into a multi-million dollar business with over 200 employees and millions of customers.
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.
Based on everything that you've gone through, what would be an advice to your younger self?
The first thing I would say is...
Chris Savage, co-founder and CEO of Wistia, a video for business, which we're using as well. And from starting in his co-founder's living room, Wistia has since grown into a multi-million dollar business with over 200 employees and millions of customers. But Chris, it wasn't an overnight success. Take us back in time to your college days.
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.
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