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Jarvis: Serena Williams Does Not Care About Teaching MasterClass Courses
“I've photographed Serena. I know her. I know she doesn't love teaching. She doesn't care about it. She's a great tennis player. Obviously the best in the world, the history of the sport, but I know also that she, you know, if she could get offset as fast as po…”
Jarvis: Open Education Marketplaces Dilute Quality and Lack Authority
“It's not a two-sided marketplace to us that just dilutes the shit out of the landscape. What do you mean by that? Well, some of our competitors where anyone in the world can put up a course. Then you don't have, there's no sort of authenticity or authority. Yo…”
Jarvis: Shutting Down Best Camera Better Than a Golden Handcuffs Acquisition
“To me, the outcome was a better outcome to shut it down, learn from it, build into something new, which is now CreativeLive than it would have been, because I would have been ensnailed, or ensnailed, entangled, yeah, entangled in, A little legal dispute, but m…”
Jarvis: Skipping Early Instagram to Preserve Legal Position Was Catastrophic
“To not be on Instagram because of trying to preserve a legal position was a really that was a painful and borderline catastrophic failure as well.”
Jarvis: Competing Online Education Platforms Convert at 1% to 2%
“I think it's, you know, low single digit, one, two percent.”
Jarvis Received 'Private Jet Money' Acquisition Offers for Best Camera App
“I had companies asking to, you know, buy it for never work again money, like private jet money.”
Jarvis: Hosting Best Camera IP on Developers' Servers Was a Mistake
“Where I can blame myself is that I was very casual about where the IP lived, despite that it was mine. I had it living on their servers and their passwords. Yes. And their iTunes account to launch the app.”
CreativeLive Has Reached 10M Students and Streamed 4B Video Minutes
“We've had more than ten million students. We've had Three or four billion minutes of video.”
Jarvis: CreativeLive was wildly profitable while bootstrapping for two years
“Bootstrapped for the first Two years, we were wildly profitable, and then we went and raised capital.”
CreativeLive Raised $58.8M From Greylock, Social Capital, and Richard Branson
“We've raised 58.8 million dollars to date. And from folks like Greylock, Social Capital, Richard Branson Jared Leto, Comcast I mean, just the top folks are, you know, our letter A and B GSV, they focused on specific education.”