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An Internship Led This Entrepreneur to His Future Business Partner. Together, They Created a $250 Million Company. Geige Vandentop co-founded StreamYard with Dan Briggs after meeting him at an internship.

By James McKinney

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James McKinney's guest is Geige Vandentop, co-founder and CEO of livestream platform StreamYard. StreamYard allows creators to distribute video feeds to numerous popular platforms like Facebook and YouTube. As events all over the world were canceled in 2020, StreamYard grew rapidly, eventually selling to Hopin for around $250 million. In this episode, Vandentop and McKinney discuss topics like:

  • How Vandentop followed his father's example, getting an engineering degree rather than a business degree.
  • How that degree led to an internship he loved and his business partner at StreamYard.
  • The market research he did before creating the business.
  • Why he eventually decided to sell the business.

Listen to a snippet of the interview above, or check out the full podcast here.

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Creator & Host, The Startup Story

James McKinney is the Founder & Host of The Startup Story, a multi-channel brand platform that brings the lessons of highly successful founders directly to the everyday founder. Whether it is through The Startup Story podcast or via the Startup Story LIVE event series, entrepreneurs everywhere can receive tactical and practical guidance from founders who are a few steps ahead.

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