Scalable video capture and playback plus building an international team

Oliver Friedmann is the CTO and Co-founder of Ziggeo, an API for video recording and playback, that’s essentially like Stripe or Twilio for video. The service abstracts all of the work for developers to allow apps and websites to take advantage of video streaming and capture.

Ledge and Oliver chat about the engineering challenges he and his team overcame, both client side (think old browsers) and server side (think millions of users recording concurrently), as they developed their solution.

On the organizational, Oliver has made amazing use of a worldwide distributed team, largely sourced through online marketplaces. Oliver’s tips for remote, distributed team management provide excellent tactical guidance for work isolation and around-the-clock productivity.

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