"SMALL EMPIRES" IS a Must WATCH sERIES FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN the startup scene
host Alexis Ohanian Alexis Ohanian knows a thing or two about startups. The founder of Reddit and Hipmunk has taken the video journalism for his latest adventure by going out and meeting rapidly growing startups and the people behind them. "Small Empires" is a weekly series brought to you by tech/design/review site the Verge (hosted by Ohanian), that profiles an intriguing startup each episode and lets their employees and founders tell the story of the ups and downs of creating and running a business.
I was turned onto the show thanks my friend Nik Fuller and was hooked immediately. Although I'm a bit late to the game as Small Empires is already early into its second season, its fairly easy to catchup on the first season with Youtube. Besides high production quality and editing, an appealing element of Small Empires is its dedication to profiling early users or brand loyalists for each startup it profiles. So whether its a a doctor on ZocDoc's platform or a small business building their e-commerce site with Squarespace, it's nice to get a true sense of the impact these companies are having when everyday people praise the business just as much as the founders and employees do.
Below is a gallery listing some of the companies featured on Small Empires
I was turned onto the show thanks my friend Nik Fuller and was hooked immediately. Although I'm a bit late to the game as Small Empires is already early into its second season, its fairly easy to catchup on the first season with Youtube. Besides high production quality and editing, an appealing element of Small Empires is its dedication to profiling early users or brand loyalists for each startup it profiles. So whether its a a doctor on ZocDoc's platform or a small business building their e-commerce site with Squarespace, it's nice to get a true sense of the impact these companies are having when everyday people praise the business just as much as the founders and employees do.
Below is a gallery listing some of the companies featured on Small Empires
There's certainly been a explosion in media and TV coverage of startups in the last few years ranging from the good to bad. If Small Empires continues to pick unique companies to cover and provide an interesting take on entrepreneurship , it will certainly be a nice addition to the coverage of the topic, which can sometimes focus on the sensational instead of the actual. With the first season dedicated to just NYC based companies, The Verge made the logical choice to take the 20 minutes long webisode series on the road for its second season, profiling companies from from Austin to Atlanta. Check out the latest episode below on Toronto based Wattpad, a social writing and publishing platform which boasts 25 million active monthly users on its network.
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