S6 Bonus: From Zencoder's Exit to a $170M+ Twilio for Video Platform: Engineering Low-Latency Video APIs at Global Scale with Jon Dahl of Mux

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Jun 2, 2022 · 26m

Jon Dahl was a philosophy major in college, and eventually, obtained a graduate degree studying theology. He thought he would go into academia, but he quickly figured out that he needed to make money as well. So he started a dev shop and taught himself to code. He is married with 2 kids in their teens, and a 21 year old cat who believe or not... is not playful. They like to read and travel, and watch shows together.

While he was running his dev shop, Jon took on a project that required him to build a video transcoder. Although this was a hard problem to solve, he learned a lot and this served…