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0:03
hello everyone Karen Glasser and this is
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the passion point this is the show where
0:09
we follow fashionistas from all around
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the world who are following their
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passions making a living doing what they
0:14
love and today I can't even begin to
0:17
tell you how excited I am to have these
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two gifts on the show they are the
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brains behind be live dot TV that's B e
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Li ve let's let's just put this up here
0:29
because I can be live dot TV I am just
0:36
we've been yakking before the show and
0:38
I'm going to introduce them right now
0:39
and will continue to yack the CEO of the
0:42
company is Daniel Mayer and he has
0:46
worked as a project manager since 2009
0:48
he has co-founded three startups and he
0:51
also likes to snowboard just in case you
0:53
were wondering
0:54
and our CTO is suffering rayon and he
0:57
previously worked at Google he has been
0:59
a social media enthusiast since 2006 and
1:03
he's the musician at heart I love that
1:05
and love music myself I want to welcome
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you guys to the show Daniel and sufferer
1:10
join us at the passion point how are you
1:12
today guys thank you hello Rick familiar
1:17
we're just delighted that you're here
1:19
and I have been talking about you guys
1:21
and about be live TV for as long as you
1:24
guys have been around in terms of this
1:26
particular platform and we always like
1:28
to start our show with the definition of
1:30
passion and so today we're going to talk
1:33
about passion in terms of Webster's
1:34
dictionary Webster says that passion is
1:37
an intense driving or overmastering
1:41
feeling or conviction
1:43
what do you guys say what is passion
1:44
mean to you I think for independence
1:49
it's like I'm a Festool I'm basically
1:52
followed by actually it's the only
1:55
things to eat we have on the first steps
1:57
each company and it's it's like the only
2:01
thing that you have it's the passion in
2:03
with this passion you need to bring all
2:05
the other stuff into into the company to
2:07
start up into your life and separate
2:11
definitely agreed because a lot of the
2:14
time at the early stages of the startup
2:17
and layer Daniel hotel about what we
2:19
went through on the way to be live a lot
2:23
of the time everything you have is the
2:24
only passion and that would keep
2:28
spoiling every day getting up coming to
2:30
work doing that doing the routine again
2:33
sometimes succeeding sometimes not
2:36
succeeding and coming back with your
2:38
head full yeah you know what I kind of
2:41
like calling it failing your way to
2:42
success right because if you don't if
2:45
you don't have all the different
2:46
failures you don't know what you need to
2:48
either improve on or move forward so I
2:50
think it's a good thing I totally think
2:51
it's a good thing let's talk about your
2:54
story where did you guys meet how did
2:56
you guys connect so we actually met what
3:01
what was it like twenty something years
3:03
ago maybe twenty two years ago at the
3:06
fourth grade so we've been friends
3:11
really since a very early age and we've
3:14
been in their scouts together and later
3:16
life also brought us to be in the Army
3:19
together we spent boot camp indistinct
3:22
tent one bed next to each other so that
3:26
life really took us on this long way
3:29
that later we managed to take that
3:33
friendship and turn it into a
3:34
partnership and run this business
3:36
together so I know that you started with
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your first live broadcasting product
3:42
called Ovid what was that about
3:44
so of it was all about crowdsourcing
3:49
mutti mutti crowd live broadcasting
3:53
platform it's a lot of people joined
3:56
together and to one broadcast and then a
3:58
producer is managing the broadcast
4:04
network is it still around yeah it's
4:08
still up still there
4:09
we are not like I'm supporting it
4:11
anymore and we would support out of it
4:14
for one and a half year and and what I
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can share with you it's all we made all
4:20
the broadcast our users made you know it
4:23
in one enough here we
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during today and a half of day every
4:27
half of day in live we are doing the
4:29
same amount of vodcast
4:31
we did in one and half year with that of
4:33
it so just to compare those two products
4:38
Wow okay so what do you attribute that
4:40
to why do you think that is well of it
4:43
was a bit ahead of its time the idea was
4:47
that when there are outdoor events going
4:49
out like concerts or newsworthy events
4:53
then people put crowdsource
4:56
and work together to broadcast it so it
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really worked great we created a really
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amazing product that that really works
5:05
and does that and creates wonderful
5:08
documentation of events but it was
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extremely hard to to explain to people
5:14
why they should use it and to find the
5:17
person that has the the willpower to
5:20
make it happen like collecting together
5:23
and to arrange everyone it's like the
5:27
number one thing that we learned that if
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you have something really great it still
5:34
has to be also really simple to use and
5:36
really simple to get started with
5:38
otherwise it's just you and your great
5:41
thing and it's really hard to get people
5:43
to use it well you know it's funny we
5:46
were talking about that even before the
5:47
show started and one of the things that
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I totally love about the live TV is the
5:52
ease-of-use there is no barrier to entry
5:55
almost almost anyone can do this if they
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can click and type a title and just go
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live so tell us about you you made the
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the I guess the path went from Ovid and
6:07
then you went straight in to be live TV
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yeah yeah that's true so on when we work
6:14
on that when we recognize that the
6:16
reason a big potential for what's going
6:20
on with the Facebook life and we saw on
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the amount of broadcast and the amount
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of users using it and then we realized
6:27
we had a great platform for live
6:29
broadcasting we of course me down to
6:31
change it and to modify it to the
6:33
specific use cases they're looking to
6:35
ever with be live and that's what we did
6:38
it took us something like a month I'm
6:40
working and developing them the first
6:42
product be live the Q&A format then it's
6:47
much more easier and you know you don't
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have any any kind of things that
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suffering is mentioned before and when
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you want to create a broadcast with Ovid
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you need a producer you need a lot of
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people you need all those things and
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with be live QA you just need to be
7:05
yourself in your computer to clicks in
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your on there
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you're alive you can broadcast no matter
7:11
to whom wherever you want whenever you
7:14
want and then it's just the magic of
7:17
simplicity and making a good product so
7:20
let's talk a little bit about the
7:22
product
7:22
bee-lieve allows you to do what we're
7:24
doing right now right where do i I'm on
7:27
a camera you're on a camera you're
7:29
sitting in Israel I'm sitting in Napa
7:30
California and yet we are look like
7:33
we're sitting together in in one shape
7:35
or form which is really great I mean
7:38
it's a great way to reach your target
7:40
audience a great way to interact and you
7:42
were saying to me earlier that that
7:43
really is the intent of this is to
7:45
create that interaction create that
7:47
conversation can you talk a little bit
7:48
about that sure um the I think the term
7:53
the first tool of engaging your
7:55
community is I'm taking them we need you
7:58
to the generally and the first product
8:00
that we launched the QA giving you the
8:02
option allow you to show the comments
8:04
and your community your followers gave
8:07
you and when we as a humans see
8:11
ourselves on a broadcast see our picture
8:14
and what we wrote it give us a
8:16
recognition and we love the cognition
8:18
everybody loved the recognition
8:20
everybody loved to see themselves and to
8:22
things that time someone is care about
8:24
what they have just read them so that
8:26
was the first step the unit second step
8:28
was taking some parts of your community
8:32
into the workers what we are doing right
8:34
now you know you send us just a link
8:36
again two clicks and we are with you in
8:38
this broadcast and of course there is a
8:41
long journey and form here and a lot of
8:44
other stuff things that that after you
8:46
can can help me when mention and the
8:49
next steps that there
8:51
we'll try and we are doing those days
8:53
but let's not go to the updates yet
8:56
though let's not go to the updates I
8:57
want to keep that to the end okay I want
8:59
to really keep people good but it's also
9:03
important to say like when we looked at
9:05
Facebook live and what people are doing
9:07
with it and how people are finding
9:09
success one of the major things that we
9:12
recognized was that when you just like
9:16
you have a lecture and you put it on it
9:20
doesn't really work if you're not there
9:22
to interact that's not what people are
9:24
there for because people on Facebook are
9:27
not like hey I have a spare hour I want
9:30
to lean back and watch this guy give a
9:32
lecture they're like in the moment I'm
9:35
here i'm social be with me let's talk
9:37
together and when you feel that you let
9:40
the community explode and all the
9:42
features that we give are revolving
9:45
around that there are letting the
9:46
community take part of the broadcast
9:49
feel like they're creating something
9:51
together and really create something
9:52
together that that's like the most basic
9:57
enjoyment and needs of people come from
10:00
doing things together and reaching the
10:02
full potential of the community and
10:04
everything that we make is for letting
10:07
that happen so how did how did you
10:10
decide well at the time we were working
10:16
on this on off it which was a live
10:18
streaming product and if you follow the
10:21
tan lines and you like piece the pieces
10:23
together when we started of it there was
10:26
no live streaming
10:27
definitely not from Oba it was a market
10:32
consensus that this is a dead market
10:34
live streaming is dead
10:35
everything was tried and the technology
10:39
was all there in like 2008 2009 I
10:42
personally I live broadcasted shows from
10:47
a Nokia one of the first 3G devices I
10:50
was already on quick live broadcasting
10:53
it was immediately sent out to my
10:55
facebook my Twitter my it was think rise
10:57
to YouTube the technology was there so
11:01
it was never a technological problem so
11:03
we came at it
11:04
from the social solution that you work
11:06
together and while we were working and
11:09
proving ourselves and doing our first
11:12
steps in the startup world
11:13
what happened around us was that Twitter
11:17
came up with their social live video
11:19
platform mm-hmm meerkat came up and
11:22
since also and Facebook live came in
11:27
with full force and when we say full
11:30
force we mean they gave crazy
11:32
distribution to videos so Facebook
11:36
Claire was the first to not only give
11:40
people incentives to broadcast but also
11:42
they figure out the part of watching
11:44
because we're broadcasting as we want
11:48
people to watch and Facebook is the
11:50
first place the first video platform
11:52
that not only brings you to people that
11:55
care about live videos they bring your
11:58
video to people that care about you and
12:00
they never saw a live video until that
12:03
moment and they saw this interesting
12:06
engaging video in your stream and they
12:08
engaged with it right that's something
12:11
that we realize that Facebook really
12:13
cracked and it became exponentially hard
12:17
to compete with that so we realized hey
12:21
this platform is gonna win wherever we
12:24
fight it or not be it's not worth the
12:28
fight
12:28
so we realized that if we take our
12:32
technology which is extremely flexible
12:34
right now we're really not using it to
12:38
its full extent at all so we decided
12:42
what if we take this wonderful flexible
12:44
technology and create engagement with it
12:48
so that at that point things just we can
12:52
begin moving one attraction it's it's
12:58
interesting one of the things that I
12:59
notice is that we're you you don't
13:02
always have to rely on the people coming
13:04
immediately and watching you live
13:06
because this stuff stays forever it's
13:08
evergreen and for those of you who are
13:11
watching and saying you know oh I think
13:13
I might want to try this now
13:15
realize that when you put a video
13:17
product in video assets out there we
13:20
know that the attention span of people
13:22
out there if there's a video out there
13:23
they're going to watch it maybe two and
13:24
a half minutes static text maybe less
13:27
than ten seconds and so video is where
13:29
it's out live video is completely where
13:32
it's out because it will live forever
13:34
and I know personally when I do these
13:36
lives no matter how many people I had on
13:39
in the beginning it grows exponentially
13:41
I mean as the week's go on because
13:44
people will come back and watch her or I
13:45
will download the video and I will use
13:47
it as part of a blog post or I will
13:50
repurpose it do you guys are the
13:53
proponents of that of repurposing the
13:55
content that we're creating with these
13:57
lives that's definitely something that
14:03
we're looking at because we see we're
14:06
always looking at what our users are
14:08
doing that's like our number one source
14:10
of information right thank you we have
14:12
our guesses then we look at what people
14:13
are doing and our guesses are not always
14:16
correct and usually not correct and then
14:20
we we see okay so this is their the new
14:22
reality and we're seeing that people
14:25
really do a lot of that downloading the
14:28
video and uploading it to other places
14:31
of where they also have communities that
14:34
they want to engage and that's perfect
14:36
that's what we're here to enable so
14:39
we're definitely looking at that and
14:42
considering it when we'll think of
14:44
future features so one of the things
14:46
that you have that has up the game with
14:48
Facebook is that what we're doing right
14:51
now because on Facebook if you're using
14:53
Facebook why what are you doing you pick
14:55
up your phone right and you either put
14:57
it on a tripod or you stand there like
14:59
this so you turn it around and it's just
15:00
you the fact that you can have more than
15:04
one person on with you really ups the
15:06
game at least in my opinion it really
15:09
ups the game is there is there anything
15:12
on the horizon that's going to be more
15:14
than just two cameras are we going to be
15:16
seeing some other things coming from you
15:17
guys like what oh maybe three cameras or
15:21
four cameras I don't know maybe four
15:24
maybe me
15:27
okay you guys are now teasing I'm good
15:29
so tell us what's coming up what what is
15:32
coming up with me life okay so we have a
15:37
new format and you broadcasting format
15:39
in the oven and we like to cook to build
15:42
to structure the broadcast in formats so
15:46
you can how you create a Q&A one two
15:50
three it's you comments are coming
15:52
showing them on the screen answer
15:54
questions you currently use the
16:03
interview format where it's where two
16:06
faces from this side but basically it's
16:08
two cameras talking to each other so the
16:12
next format we don't have a final name
16:15
for it yet but it will be a more
16:18
advanced format that will be people that
16:21
are already have some experience in
16:25
using our systems and/or other systems
16:27
that do live broadcasting and I want to
16:31
go the next step to maybe bring more
16:35
people into the broadcast to maybe
16:38
switch between angles in a different way
16:42
we still don't have it finalized but we
16:46
did have an early early early adopter
16:48
use it and it was a broadcast that was
16:53
four hours from around the world and
16:56
multiple guests came in and out during
17:00
the broadcast and that's something we
17:04
can already hint to that will that
17:06
formant will have the ability to control
17:08
on which guests coming to the broadcast
17:11
at which time so you can have like you
17:17
will be able to have guests many guests
17:20
joining ahead of time and like
17:24
introducing them into the broadcast in
17:27
and out over time I know I'm not telling
17:30
much I may be over teasing here I'm
17:33
excited I'm or you might they be telling
17:35
not a lot but I get it and that
17:37
is freakin awesome we actually tried to
17:40
hack your system a couple of weeks ago
17:42
by having people come in on the link and
17:44
then going and then have somebody else
17:46
click on the link and coming in so we
17:48
did kind of play with that a little bit
17:49
but oh my gosh guys if you're listening
17:51
to this you need to be listening to this
17:53
this is going to be monster monster
17:56
monster monster
17:57
so I want I would love for you to talk a
18:00
little bit about I mean you're obviously
18:02
following your passion you talked about
18:04
the failures that you needed in order to
18:06
move forward what would you tell
18:08
somebody that came to you that says you
18:11
know I've lost my job or I've been laid
18:13
off or I've been I can't find a job I
18:15
think I've lost my passion I don't even
18:17
know what to do what would you tell them
18:19
how to find their passion or how to
18:21
follow a dream you have any wise words
18:23
to share with our viewers that might be
18:25
in that boat right now
18:26
so fashion it's a big world I mean when
18:31
people known about the unpatient
18:34
it's it's high level of fun of knowing
18:36
yourself and the first thing it's to
18:39
know yourself and to know what's what is
18:42
the points of passion in yourself and
18:44
what passionate you I'm waking in the
18:46
morning they're going doing guy your
18:49
work job and then going to your life
18:52
routine and back so first thing is
18:54
better understanding what are my
18:56
passions I have a lot of people that
18:59
come familiar with they don't know what
19:01
is the passion of their life is it they
19:03
have a job they have a family is
19:05
everything but when you are asking them
19:07
what is the patient or what you're
19:09
looking to have what is the purpose
19:11
they don't have answers they don't know
19:13
what their life to do it's not just a
19:15
passion I've asked you know do you have
19:17
any hobbies there have any things that
19:19
you like to do they run I've answer to
19:21
that so the first thing is better
19:23
understand what is your passion when you
19:26
understand it Lily understands if there
19:28
is no connection between passion to
19:31
money it's not like there is a patient
19:33
to money but there is a patient to money
19:38
you can do all the stuff I mean lot lot
19:42
of stuff without any connection to if
19:45
you have a lot lot of money or or not
19:48
and basically I think that
19:51
all the small things of life and bring
19:53
us the happiness and and the passion as
19:58
for me to be in Turpan or to change
20:03
things to to see the things from the
20:07
other end oh I mean to see that there is
20:09
an issue there full of lemon to came
20:13
with an idea to how to solve it or what
20:16
we are looking to do here and it's the
20:19
greatest things that we can have I mean
20:21
if if am people a person can can see
20:26
himself like don't have anything else
20:28
and just his passion he can surely know
20:31
he's fine his passion so the basic rule
20:34
is if you can just be with your patient
20:37
I mean with anything else you find it
20:41
that's a that's a great way to explain
20:43
it I really appreciate that one of my
20:45
favorite quotes is and I don't have a
20:47
it's anonymous I don't know who wrote
20:49
this is purpose is the reason you
20:52
journey passion is the fire that lights
20:55
the way you agree with that
20:58
that sounds very correct yeah do you
21:01
have any quotes that you guys like
21:02
anything that you live by
21:03
or do you prefer close that's all that's
21:10
all that's that's that's fine that's
21:14
absolutely fine so let's talk about how
21:18
people to get involved now how can
21:20
people sign up and become a part of be
21:23
live TV I'm putting up the link up there
21:26
so what will happen when they go to WWE
21:30
live TV what will happen they're gonna
21:32
click on it and then they're gonna do
21:35
does it is there any fee for this right
21:37
now well right now as soon as they come
21:40
into the site first of all you'll see a
21:42
bit about what we're doing why we're
21:44
doing it and how they can benefit from
21:45
it so hopefully if they're not fully
21:49
convinced that they have to use V live
21:51
that will help them go to the next step
21:53
on the middle there's a very big
21:56
inviting button that says get started
21:59
and you just tell us a little bit about
22:02
yourself let us know
22:04
what you're gonna broadcast what's going
22:06
on and we'll you'll pretty soon get a
22:09
message back that help you get started
22:11
so sometimes we'll also reach back to
22:15
you and and give you a little bit of
22:16
help if you couldn't figure it out on
22:18
your own but it's very simple because
22:21
you get an email or a facebook messenger
22:25
message with just ways to get started
22:28
immediately so with two clicks after
22:30
filling the guest star in form you
22:33
should be able to already have a
22:34
broadcast running and you also have our
22:38
contact by that time so you know how to
22:40
reach out to us with any further
22:41
questions we we sometimes take a few
22:46
hours to get back to people but we we do
22:49
work hard to get back to everyone make
22:52
sure that everyone has their needs
22:53
fulfilled and if you'll have something
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to broadcast we want to be there to help
22:58
you broadcast it you know I want it I
23:01
want to address that for everyone out
23:04
there that knows me and then I I try
23:05
everything and I have to tell you guys
23:08
you have the best support in in that
23:11
I've ever seen when I first started
23:14
using this affair you know this I
23:15
emailed you almost immediately and I was
23:18
having a particular issue and my god
23:21
I have never seen anything like this you
23:22
you responded almost immediately and we
23:24
ended that's how we met and this is how
23:26
we went back and forth and then I met
23:27
Daniel and we went back and forth you
23:29
listened to the concerns I had and you
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either were able to help me fix it and
23:34
or you actually tweaked your own project
23:37
and it has nothing to do with me it's
23:39
who you guys are and that is something
23:42
that really created the energy behind me
23:45
wanting to bring you onto the show here
23:47
today because when we are in technology
23:50
this stuff isn't going away guys
23:51
technology is not going away you're
23:53
going to have to either just suck it up
23:56
and jump in the water is fine or you're
23:59
gonna close your eyes and have blinders
24:00
on and the world is going to pass you by
24:02
so why not enjoy doing it why not get
24:04
involved with the company that is going
24:06
to help you that is going to be there
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with you and support you and I'm not
24:10
saying this because I'm getting paid for
24:11
this because I'm not I'm saying this
24:13
because I personally have experienced
24:16
your support your response and your
24:18
ability to create a product that I think
24:21
is already lighting the world on fire
24:23
and I can't wait to see what else is
24:26
coming from you guys any last thoughts
24:28
you want to share with our audience
24:29
before we say goodbye little patient
24:36
follow your fashion okay I want to thank
24:39
everyone for being with us today because
24:40
we know that you have a choice as to
24:42
where you spend your time and I want to
24:44
thank you from the bottom of my heart
24:45
that you chose to spend it with us today
24:47
on the passion point for those of you
24:50
would like to see some past shows go
24:52
ahead and go visit the passion point.com
24:55
and you'll see all these shows I'm going
24:57
to be taking this show that we recorded
24:59
live I'm going to be actually
25:01
downloading it and uploading it into a
25:04
blog post with transcripts from what we
25:06
talked about today and I hope that you
25:09
will join us next time on the next
25:11
episode of the passion point have a
25:14
great day everyone and a great evening
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you guys bye-bye everybody
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