All Things Video

James McFadden is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Collab, a digital content studio and creator network that reaches over 230M followers and generates roughly 7B Vine loops per month. Prior to Collab, he and his brothers Tyler and Will started GoPotato TV, which created the original comedy series Eli’s Dirty Jokes. In this episode, we explore James and his brothers’ initial foray into digital with GoPotato TV and their decision to start the Collab creator network in 2012. James shares insight into a partnership with Next New Networks before and after its acquisition by Google, what he learned from a failed attempt to launch a video discovery site, and Collab’s early adoption of new platforms like Vine and Snapchat. Finally, he shares his perspective on bootstrapping a business and the vitality of execution in any startup. Host: James Creech ABOUT THE SHOW All Things Video is a podcast dedicated to uncovering the past and charting the future of the online video ecosystem. Listen to interviews with founders,