Karen X. Cheng

Founder & Creative Director, KarenXCheng Inc. · 1 appearance on the record.

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Karen X. Cheng is a creative director and technologist known for viral video experiments and pioneering uses of generative AI. Before directing campaigns for brands including Apple and McDonald's, she co-founded the Y Combinator-backed video platform GiveItOneHundred.

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Cheng: Initial dance challenge video achieved three million views

“Well, I guess our test for it is my video, which has three million views and was shared widely.”

Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 14:03 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

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Disclosure

Cheng: GiveItOneHundred eliminated photo support because videos were more interesting

“We started off as a photo and video site, but then we cut out videos, we cut out photos because the videos were more interesting.”

Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 12:49 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

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Cheng: GiveItOneHundred plans to turn user challenges into viral YouTube videos

“But we want to use YouTube, we want to piggyback off of YouTube as a marketing channel the same way we did with my video, so we'll take really compelling 100 day challenges, and we will turn it into a viral video, put it up on YouTube, and say, made with 100.”

Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 13:44 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Disclosure

Cheng: GiveItOneHundred has an invite-only beta of 50 people

“We have invite-only beta of 50 people”

Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 11:32 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Assertion Supported

Cheng: Initial dance challenge video achieved three million views

“Well, I guess our test for it is my video, which has three million views and was shared widely.”

Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 14:03 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Disclosure

Karen X. Cheng: GiveItOneHundred caps video clips at 10 seconds

“We cap it at 10 seconds, because I have a short attention span, and I'm building this for myself.”

Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 14:51 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator	Oct 26, 2013	2m

Karen X. Cheng

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