347: Steven Galanis on Creating The New Autograph With Cameo

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Steven Galanis is the CEO of Cameo, the world's leading marketplace for personalized video shoutouts. He previously helped finance films in Hollywood and spent 5 years as a professional options trader in Chicago after graduating from Duke University. In this conversation, we discuss the original idea for Cameo, how they found product-market fit, the celebrity acquisition process, who makes the most money on the platform, deep fakes and generative media, how they raised more than $65 million, and who is the most requested person not on Cameo. =============================== BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. https://www.blockfi.com/pomp =============================== When the New Yorker magazine asked Mark Zuckerberg how he gets his news he said the one news source he definitely follows is Techmeme. For more than two years and nearly 700 episodes, The Techmeme Ride Home has been Silicon Valley’s favorite tech news podcast. The Techmeme Ride Home is a daily podcast, only fifteen to twenty minutes long, and every day by 5pm eastern its ALL the latest tech news. =============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:05.3	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Stephen Galanis is the CEO of
0:13.4	Cameo, the world's leading marketplace for personalized video shoutouts. He previously helped finance
0:19.2	films in Hollywood and spent five years as a professional
0:22.3	options trader in Chicago after graduating from Duke University. In this conversation, we discussed
0:27.9	the original idea for Cameo, how they found product market fit, the celebrity acquisition
0:33.1	process, who makes the most money on the platform, deep fakes and generative media, how they
0:39.1	raised more than $65 million, and who is the most requested person not on Cameo?
0:44.2	I really enjoyed this conversation with Stephen, and I hope you do as well.
0:48.2	Before we get into the episode, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:51.8	The first is BlockFi. I'm an investor and a very happy user.
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1:34.5	The next is a new podcast.
1:36.9	It's really, really cool.
1:38.5	When the New Yorker magazine asked Mark Zuckerberg how he gets his news,
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