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I uploaded this to my blog (then zacharyklein.com) on June 1, 2000 while interning at Lincoln Financial Group in Fort Wayne, IN. I was 17.

My boss assigned me to learn how to use an awesome piece of equipment they owned called a Pinnacle StreamFactory, which is an encoding device that took a live video feed and pushed out four different encodes simultaneously to a streaming server. Until I unwrapped it, it had been sitting in a closet unused. Their original idea was to use this to broadcast live stockholder events to remote stockholders over the internet.

This machine spurred me to think that there was huge business potential helping people their stream live events -- I was thinking college sports would be a great start. I spent the whole summer obsessing over the idea. Seven years later, we're now just on the cusp of this concept becoming ubiquitous.