#30 – Doug Petkanics & Eric Tang: open video infrastructure

Into the Bytecode

This is my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:45 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:03:55 Livepeer origin story
- 00:11:54 FFmpeg and the video infrastructure stack
- 00:17:07 compute capacity and cost in open vs closed systems
- 00:22:59 GPUs as the supply side, working at NVIDIA
- 00:40:27 finding latent demand
- 00:46:10 sponsor: Privy
- 00:47:30 learnings on go-to-market, Livepeer Studio, AI video processing
- 01:00:54 AI subnets in the Livepeer network
- 01:07:51 doing whatever it takes to get it done
- 01:13:19 interacting with the market
- 01:18:51 the inner game
- 01:24:30 outro

Links:
Doug Petkanics - https://twitter.com/petkanics
Eric Tang - https://twitter.com/ericxtang
Livepeer - https://twitter.com/livepeer
Livepeer Studio - https://twitter.com/livepeerstudio

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