San Francisco, California, United States
The Hooked apps have reached 100M readers and watchers and have hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. Using data and machine learning, we created the content of the future.
• designed and led the development of a video streaming platform to support the company pivoting into media production, including content publishing and automated Digital Right Management (DRM) systems allowing the company to partner with major Holywood content studios
• developed Hooked TV for iOS and rebranded the existing chat fiction app to Hooked Fiction
• scaled the team across mobile, frontend & backend