S6 Bonus: Jon Dahl, Mux

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Jon Dahl was a philosophy major in college, and eventually, obtained a graduate degree studying theology. He thought he would go into academia, but he quickly figured out that he needed to make money as well. So he started a dev shop and taught himself to code. He is married with 2 kids in their teens, and a 21 year old cat who believe or not... is not playful. They like to read and travel, and watch shows together. While he was running his dev shop, Jon took on a project that required him to build a video transcoder. Although this was a hard problem to solve, he learned a lot and this served as the catalyst for him to pursue building the product that he wished he could have bought while dev'ing this project. This is the creation story of Mux. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We had to learn a lot, and it was really hard.
0:03.0	This is like early days of YouTube, really early days of online video, and I had to build a
0:07.6	video transcoding back in.
0:08.7	I didn't know what video transcoding was.
0:10.5	I didn't know what a video codec was, but I had to figure it out.
0:13.5	I just wish there was a product out there that I could have bought instead of building
0:17.0	it myself.
0:18.0	And that was really the inspiration for me getting into video technology.
0:20.6	I felt the need firsthand. There's so much work that goes into software development to make
0:25.1	software easier, but it's still fun to dig into like a really, really complex problem.
0:29.6	Part of what makes video so hard is that it's actually not one hard problem. It's like seven or
0:33.3	eight hard problems that all have to work together to make a video play.
0:38.1	My name is John Dahl. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Mux.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.4	I'm your host, Noel Apar.
1:04.0	And today how John Dahl created the developer's API, enabling them to build streaming online video. All this and more. OnCote
1:15.6	Story. John Dahl was a philosophy major in college and eventually obtained a graduate
1:24.4	degree studying theology. He thought he would go into academia,
1:27.9	but he quickly figured out that he needed to make money as well. So he started a dev shop
1:32.0	and taught himself how to code. He's married with two kids and their teens and a 21-year-old
1:36.7	cat, who believe it or not, is not playful. While he was running his dev shop, John took
1:42.2	on a project that required him to build a video
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