Babelgum founder interview
For an Italian billionaire many times over, Silvio Scaglia seems and sounds very humble. Before founding Fastweb in 1999, Scaglia was CEO of Italian operator Omnitel, now Vodafone Italy. His new venture is Babelgum, a full-screen, high-res online video service which will always be compared to Joost, even though the two started around the same time, though Joost has a headstart and much more content on it for now.
He is investing a big chunk of his personal money, as an indication of his commitment to this, and that’s the only money he is taking for now, he says. A wide ranging interview on his views on online video space; the IPTV market in Europe and how he views IPTV efforts from AT&T and Verizon here; IPTV versus online TV; difference between Babelgum and Joost; his view on how content players are easing up on distributing content; the technology for high-red video online as it stands now; and others topics.
The audio interview can be found here.
[Via paidcontent]