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Use These 3 Lessons From the Past to Create the Future of VR
My latest article for UploadVR is live! I distill lessons from some of histories best designers and media thinkers that can be applied to these early days of virtual reality. Creating for a new medium, which is still in the midst of discovering itself, can be challenging. Luckily, we have history to help guide us. Designers […]
Doing the Impossible: From Idea to Demoing at the Game Developers Conference
In my latest article for Upload VR I explain how we went from an idea to working game that Valve brought on to demo at the Game Developers Conference. There’s beauty in the chaos of a startup’s early days when the team decides to roll the dice. For virtual reality entrepreneurs there are some amazing […]
Spilling all the Quest Marketing Secrets – Interview on Growth Everywhere
I had a great time on Eric Siu’s Growth Everywhere show. See embed below for the full episode. Eric knows the space better than most, so he asks great questions and surfaces a lot of actionable advice. We cover content creation, hiring, culture, SEO, the media mix and more! Pro Tip: Playback at 2x speed. It […]
The Quest Origin Story – Video
Watch how Quest went from an impossible dream to the food company loved by millions.
Playlist Live
I had a great time at Playlist Live and joining their business panel with guests Shay Butler, ShayCarl / Shaytards; Chrystina Woody, VP of Communications, StyleHaul; Will Keenan, President, Endemol Beyond; Jonathan Weilbaecher, VP of Optimization and Content Strategy, Collective Digital Studio; Adam Klaff, Head of Business, Development, VHX; Ali Adab, VP Content & Partnerships, BroadbandTV. […]
Secrets from the Back of the Box
It was late 2012. If Quest was a child it would have been at the peak of the awkward puberty stage; A middle schooler who just returned home from the dentist with a full set of braces. Quest was becoming something special, but it wasn’t fully formed. Case in point: the back of the box […]
How an US Magazine Article Made me Rethink Everything
It was the beginning of a non-stop day at Quest HQ with questions and ideas coming from every corner of the office; YouTube series ideas and talent questions, chips retail launch specs and what about that new ad format? Keeping up with the outside world, I checked Google Analytics to see how e-com was doing. […]
Chips Gone Viral: 3 Stages of a New Product Launch
Picture tens of thousands of fans waiting by their computers, refreshing a website to pre-order the hot new product. Is it the iPhone 6? Oculus Rift? Nope, it’s a bag of chips. How do you pre-sell chips on the internet? Through the power of community.
Old Posts
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