May 6, 2024

Doug Petkanics & Eric Tang: open video infrastructure

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

We talk about video's increasingly important role on the internet, the impact of generative AI, and how Livepeer is able to provide a 90% cost improvement over cloud services by putting excess compute capacity to work.

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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

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

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Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.