Zencoder
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Zencoder was a San Francisco-based cloud video encoding service founded in 2007, part of Y Combinator's Winter 2010 batch. Its API let developers transcode video at scale without managing hardware, charging per minute of encoded content, and its team also built Video.js, the first open-source HTML5 video player. With more than 1,000 paying customers, it was acquired by Brightcove for about $30 million in July 2012.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Zencoder founded
Zencoder was founded in San Francisco to build a cloud-based video encoding API; it launched publicly in May 2010 and created the open-source Video.js player.
- Brightcove acquires Zencoder
Brightcove acquired Zencoder for about $30 million, viewing it as a product augment for its Video Cloud platform and a developer on-ramp.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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