PubNub CEO Todd Greene on Untether.tv

Todd Greene, PubNub Co-Founder and CEO, talks with Rob Woodbridge of Untether.tv. This is Todd’s second appearance on Untether.tv and together he and Rob discuss entrepreneurship, the growing demand for real-time applications and the importance of a Data Stream Network.

Here is a quick reference of what was covered in the show.

1. What is PubNub 2:10
2. What are real time applications 2:40
3. How are you selling this very broad service offering 4:30
4. What are the implications of real time applications 6:10
5. Why has it been easy to sell PubNub services 11:20
6. Who are you selling to? Who is your customer? 13:20
7. Are your customers mostly new products or existing products 14:30
8. How are social television apps using PubNub? 16:25
9. What happened with Loyalize 18:40
10. Why sell Loyalize to Viggle? 20:30
11. Why you shouldn’t say no to an acquisition conversation 23:35
12. How did you balance between the two companies? 25:45
13. Was the version of PubNub you re-joined different than the one your started 4 years back? 28:40
14. What is your vision for PubNub – will you become a consumer brand? 30:35
15. Where did the name come from? 32:40
16. How did you manage raising money for PubNub at the same time selling Loyalize? 33:50
17. How much activity flows through PubNub 34:45
18. How do you not get into other businesses and remain true to your vision? 38:30
19. Why should companies look at PubNub to bring real-time computing into their applications 39:40
20. What should app developers focus on? Stagent case study 44:20
21. Does this limit innovation or support it 46:25
22. How did you land your first customers 50:10
23. Is there anything you would have done differently with PubNub? 51:30