Chris Savage is Cofounder and CEO of Wistia . He was named BusinessWeek Top 25 Entrepreneur 25 or Under.
Listen to this interview as he talks about some of lows and highs of running Wistia:
-Have you tried to get a big client and they did not call you back?
Listen to why PBS did not return Wistia calls early on after their initial meeting.
(*they did become a customer 4 years later!)
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Chris Savage is Cofounder and CEO of Wistia which is a video marketing application which allows you to host, track , and promote your videos.
Wistia has clients including Cushman & Wakefield, NBC, A&E, and Cirque du Soleil…and many more.
-As a business owner do you think you need to have all the answers?
Watch what happens when Chris talks about his initial reaction when competitors were poking around and how a team member (Adam Zais) handled it.
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Thanks Chris for taking the time and sharing some of the big lessons you learned while running Wistia! Please make sure Adam watches this as there are a bunch of shout outs to him.
Great interview, good to see the man behind Wistia! I like how you ask for email upfront btw! Has this generated leads good sign-ups Jeremy?
Thanks Rohit! What did you like about it? I actually started asking for emails in the middle lately 🙂
ROhit! Yes always great to see the person behind the company. hope you are well and what are you working on?
Hi Jeremy! Still going strong with my podcast breakingtheborders.com. I’m at 45 episodes. Soon going to hit 50! Thanks to inspiration from you and Andrew.
Congrats Rohit! that is awesome!
Thanks Jeremy. Quick question for you. Do you do pre-interviews with your guests?
Yes I do them right before I go into the interview and I keep it to 5-10min
I see, thanks for the info. I also get only 10min for my interviews and not able to use all of Andrews strategies. I will checkout more of your interviews. Thanks.
sounds great Rohit
Sounds great Rohit! I look forward to more of your comments