Brendan Schwartz
Chief Technology Officer of WistiaHe/Him
Brendan is into creatively-driven businesses, minimalism, and nonsense.
How We Discovered the Woes of Video Hosting and Built a Better System
Learn why you can trust Wistia with your video infrastructure and how we’re constantly improving it to give you the best hosting experience possible.
Wistia Updates
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Wistia
From our hiring processes and how we collaborate to how we build our product, we’re committed to approaching everything we do through a DE&I lens.
Wistia Updates
Introducing Brand Affinity Marketing: The Best Way to Build a Brand People Love
Start marketing to your audience in a way that actually resonates with them on a deep, personal level.
Video Strategy
Why We’re Giving All New Parents 16 Weeks of Paid Leave
Hear from our co-founder, Brendan Schwartz, about why we're making our parental leave policy more generous and inclusive.
Wistia Updates
Why Setting Ambitious Goals Backfires
Find out why setting modest, straightforward goals actually enables your team to do their best, most creative work.
Wistia Updates
How to Build a Co-Founder Partnership That Can Last (Decades)
Brendan Schwartz, CTO and co-founder of Wistia, shares the rules and principles that have helped shape his long-lasting co-founder partnership.
Wistia Updates
How an Offer to Sell Wistia Inspired Us to Take On $17M in Debt
Most founders dream of building a product that eventually becomes a household name and sells for a billion dollars, but chasing that goal comes with some downsides. We chose a different path.
Wistia Updates
Introducing Wistia’s Newest Feature: Privacy Mode
You shouldn't have to choose between your viewers' privacy and collecting meaningful data about how your videos are performing.
Wistia Updates
Video Playback in Email? Comin’ Right Up!
We built a feature to allow for inline video playback in Apple Mail, and Brendan dressed up as a mailman to celebrate.
Wistia Updates
The Costs of Catered Lunches: What You Need to Know
Catering every meal might seem like an ideal way to optimize efficiency, but this practice and frame of mind have some serious long-term (and short-term) costs.
Wistia Updates
Extracting Thumbnails Faster with FFmpeg
Taking advantage of HTTP protocol support in libavformat
Wistia Updates