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080 Devon Townsend | Influencer to Cofounder

Redirected

Andrew East

Business

52K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today in episode 80 of Redirected, we sit down with our first guest on this 30 under 30 series, Devon Townsend. Devon is the mastermind behind the popular app many of you might know as Cameo. A flood of requests for personalized videos convinced Devon there was an unmet market. That's when Cameo was born. Devon chats with me about In 2014 Townsend quit his job as a Microsoft engineer to travel the world with his friend and Youtube star, Cody Ko. During his travels and adventures, Devon started a vine account that attracted over tens of millions of followers. Devon felt there was an untapped market after many of his followers requested personalized videos. And from there, Cameo was born. It was a pleasure chatting with Devon about the pivots and redirections in his career. Tune in to hear him shed light on how he's built Cameo to be one of the most pivotal platforms of our generation. If you haven’t yet, please rate Redirected and subscribe to hear more. And if you have someone you'd like to see on the podcast, send us your recommendations in the comments below! Last but not least, be sure to check out the links below to learn more about Devon Townsend and all he's got going on at the moment. ––– Check out Devon's Forbes article! ▶ https://www.forbes.com/profile/devon-townsend/?sh=5079ed836555 Explore Cameo ▶ https://www.cameo.com/ Follow Devon on IG! ▶https://www.instagram.com/devonspinnler/?hl=en Follow me on IG ▶ https://www.instagram.com/andrewdeast/ Subscribe to the Redirected YT Channel! ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUrE19kuOlhiFlMHZ3703w

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Redirected.

0:10.0

My name is Andrew East and this is a show we sit down with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs,

0:14.2

really anybody who has experienced a change or pivot in life.

0:17.5

I call these changes Redirections and at some point or another we all go through

0:21.4

them.

0:22.4

And so I wanted to sit down with people who have made it through these changes really

0:25.0

well in order to learn something for myself and share what I learned with you.

0:29.4

So today we are continuing our Forbes 3030 series where we sit down with young people

0:34.9

who are innovative and passionate and visionary who have experienced these redirections themselves.

0:40.9

But also I like this series because it's with people who are redirecting the future and

0:46.0

it's people who are creating things that weren't around before and people using technology

0:50.7

like it's never been used before creating technology that's never been around before.

0:55.2

So today we sit down with Devon Townsend who is the co-founder of an app called Camille.

1:01.0

And essentially what Camille is is you can log on, find your favorite celebrity and essentially

1:08.2

pay them to make a personalized video for you.

1:10.6

And so you might be wondering cool concept but how big could something like that be?

1:14.8

Well Camille has raised over $50 million and Devon sits down with us and shares some really

1:20.2

awesome wisdom and insight telling us about how he went from being an influencer and traveling

1:25.0

the world to working in the corporate world for different organizations to ultimately co-founding

1:31.2

this concept of Camille that he wasn't sure was going to pan out at the beginning or not.

1:35.8

And he talks us about how ultimately the company grew and became what it is today.

1:41.0

So I think you'll like this one.

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