In today’s episode, I interview Bettina Hein, founder & CEO of Pixability, a software platform that helps brands and their agencies place video advertising on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Bettina’s first company, SVOX, which worked on text to speech, was sold to Nuance and that technology can be found on mobile phones and cars today. Bettina was born in Berlin, attended college in Switzerland, and moved to Cambridge to become a Sloan Fellow at MIT. It was then that Bettina started Pixability at the Cambridge Innovation Center after identifying the major shift underway in the video industry.

 

In this episode, Bettina shares amongst other things:

                Pixability’s shift from a B2C company to B2B

                The sea change happening in the consumption of media

                Why online advertising is still undervalued

                The three big mistakes that most advertisers make

                How Bettina sees video advertising changing over the next five to ten years

                The three things you need to be a successful entrepreneur

                How she manages a company with multiple offices around the world

Links from this episode:

                Clayton Christensen

                Vimeo

                metacafé

                Dailymotion

                Snapchat

                Amazon Instant Video

                SNOW

                WeChat

                Pinterest

                WhatsApp

                Tinder

                Twitch

                DataXu

                nToggle

                Adelphic

                nanigans

                Hulu

                Netflix

                Slack

                Google Hangouts

                Trattoria Il Panino

                Mama Maria

                InsightSquared

                Buildium

                Localytics

                Happie

                Thinking Fast and Slow

                The Power of Habit

                Crime and Punishment

                The Green Brothers

                Casey Neistat

                CaseyNeistat.video

                Kid President

                SoulPancake

                Pixability on Twitter

                Pixability on Facebook

                Pixability on Youtube

                She-E-Os

 

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