Drew Baron
Rocketboom
Creator, Founder
On a mission to democratize the moving image, from 2004 – 2009 Rocketboom was by many statistical measures the most watched and talked about videoblog in the world. Rocketboom set standards for short-form storytelling, digital video production, online distribution technology, online video promotion, and video commerce on the internet.
Rocketboom was voted Forbes “Best of The Web”, Time Magazine’s “The Best in The Online World”, heralded in New York Times’ “critic’s notebook” as “amusing and ambitious”, and won multiple Streamy and Webby awards. Rocketboom was also presented on stage by Steve Jobs during his famous product rollouts, twice, to introduce the first Video iPod, and the first AppleTV.
Know Your Meme
Creator, Founder
I created the Know Your Meme show and meme database in 2007 for people to learn about and document memes. Know Your Meme introduced the mainstream to the topic of memes and became the authority on meme culture.
Humanwire
Creator, Founder
In 2015 I released Humanwire as a platform to connect donors one-to-one with families fleeing war. The international effort brought personalized relief to thousands of displaced people with operations in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Iraq, and Malaysia.
If you are interested in learning about the complete effort, see: “On Humanwire“