Pick My Brain with Alan Jones 
About Justin Wastnage
Justin Wastnage is founder and CEO of Vloggi, a Sydney-based video collaboration platform that lets organisations collect and manage user-generated video at scale. He founded the company in late 2018 after roles as director of the Tourism & Transport Forum, founder of the Flight TV aviation video channel, and content roles at Microsoft and interactive TV pioneer Static2358. Vloggi has raised angel funding including a 2021 round that valued the company at US$2.5 million, and counts Qantas, PayPal and MYOB among its enterprise clients. On Pick My Brain with Alan Jones, Wastnage discussed why investors keep saying no to founders and what to do about it.
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Key moments from Why Investors Keep Saying No (And What to Do About It) | Justin Wastnage from Vloggi.
- 2:03Meet Justin Wastnage and the origins of Vloggi
- 4:57What Vloggi does: video as content, data and evidence
- 7:11What changed with synthetic AI video and why it matters now
- 9:00The pivot story: from tourism boards to enterprise compliance
- 12:35Bootstrapping and the team behind Vloggi
- 13:03The current raise: $800k to bring the enterprise product to market
- 17:03How Vloggi verifies that uploaded video is authentic, not AI-generated
- 19:33Commercial model: per project vs ongoing enterprise licensing
- 22:31Why Vloggi wants to be infrastructure, not a consumer brand
- 24:48Alan's challenge: how to reposition when investors think they know your old story
The path so far.
- Now
CEO and Founder · Vloggi
- Earlier
Established video publishing arm (London & Sydney) · Reed Elsevier (RelX)
- Earlier
Established video PR unit · Microsoft
- Earlier · Startup
Early team member, digital TV startup · Static 2358
- Earlier · Startup
Co-founder · HowWasIt?
Sources: vloggi.com
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