Video editing is inexpensive and standardized, but camera production is costly
Joshua Xu · No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu · Jun 20, 2024 · at 3:53
Joshua Xu, co-founder and CEO of HeyGen, explains the market insight that drove the company to focus on AI avatars to replace physical camera shoots.
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“Editing, we just learned from customer that editing is not that expensive because it's pretty standard service, but camera is super expensive.”
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