But it never too off as the videos took too long to create and educators could not condense their expertise into three minutes. Zhu and his cofounder and co-CEO Louis Yang raised $250,000 from VCs and spent six months building an app called Cicada, where experts could create short three-to-five minute videos explaining a subject. Zhu had been interested in MOOCs and come up with the idea of short-form education videos. He also co-led the initial design of SAP’s flagship product at while at SAP. Prior to founding musical.ly, Zhu was Principal Creative Director at Microsoft driving “mobile disruption” initiatives in the consumer space. It’s also run successful campaigns for artists like Jason Derulo and Rihana, and companies like Disney and Fox. It’s defined many new social interactions that never existed before, like duets, best fan forever, video Q&A, etc. Millions of “musers” come to musical.ly everyday to express themselves, get entertained, and socialize with others. Today we’re delighted to say Alex (June) Zhu, cofounder of Musical.ly is also joining.Īs the Co-founder & Co-CEO of musical.ly, based out of San Francisco, he has been behind the mobile social network’s success around the world, especially amongst teens. TechCrunch Disrupt in London is on December 5-6! One month to go! It will be the place to come talk about new technology, your startup, other startups, everyone’s startups! Grab tickets here.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |