

Co-founder at Definitely Games
Casey Pugh
Casey is an Emmy & Peabody award winning creative technologist that has spent the last 17 years blending product, design, and code into a fine soup. He co-founded VHX (acquired by Vimeo) and developed the Wavelength mobile game (Apple Design Award Finalist & Apple Game of the Day). ----- Casey co-founded VHX where he ran product. What started off as a social video experiment, pivoted to a platform that became the best way to sell movies/TV/video direct to fans. It was acquired by Vimeo in 2016 and now powers their enterprise business. The company was backed by USV, Comcast Ventures, Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, Matt Mullenweg and more. As a solo developer, he built and self-published the cross-platform mobile game, Wavelength, an Apple Design Award Finalist for its novel use of realtime multiplayer interaction. Casey won an Emmy & Peabody for creating the first crowdsourced film, Star Wars Uncut. As a followup he collaborated with Lucasfilm on Empire Strikes Back Uncut. SWU has inspired an entire genre of filmmaking that include fan remakes from: Conan O'Brien's "OCCUPY CONAN", AMC's Mad Men Fan Cut, Robocop Remake, Shrek Retold, Our Frasier Remake, and many many more. At Vimeo, Casey founded Vimeo Creator Labs, an R&D team that created some novel innovations and patents for immersive video. He also built the original and iconic Vimeo player, helped scale the Vimeo platform, and helped bring HD video to the interwebs. (RIP Adobe Flash)
Questions & Answers
Can you share a distinctive achievement or highlight from your career?
I co-founded VHX where I ran product. What started off as a social video experiment, pivoted to a platform for selling movies/TV/video direct to fans. It was acquired by Vimeo in 2016 and now powers their enterprise OTT business. The company was backed by USV, Comcast Ventures, Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, Matt Mullenweg and more.
What sets you apart from others in your industry?
Unlike your typical game studio, we have the chops to scale anything. My co-founder and I are both engineers and have scaled businesses that led to acquisitions (VHX -> Vimeo, Parsec -> Unity)
What's the story behind your company?
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