Stream like a CEO

Howdy, howdy. My name is Matt Mullenweg. I am the co-founder of WordPress, the CEO of a 1,200-person company called Automattic, and I also run a podcast and site at distributed.blog to talk about distributed work. I wanted to record a quick video to kind of show what a super high-end video conference call setup would look like. So if you— I'm going to talk about this all in the blog post on my blog, ma.tt, or search for, you know, "How to Stream Like a CEO," I think is what I'm going to call this post. And I'll detail out all the equipment and how I set it up, but I'm talking to a Sony camera right now. It has real-time eye tracking, so I can move in close or come out and it stays in focus. It's hooking up to an Elgato Cam Link. I've got a good light. This is the UE 18 Pro. So when, you know, usually a web conference versus just normal streaming, like it's two-way, so I can hear when people are talking to me and talk back to them. Uh, yeah, it's a pretty good setup and I'm happy with how it turned out. It's definitely a little complicated for every day and it's really expensive. So this is really if cost is not a factor for you, you could invest in something like this. But if you're an executive, for example, you know, who's now finding yourself addressing the entire company on or maybe potential investors, or doing things where like a little extra professionalism would be important, it's actually not that hard to get set up. And once you get all the equipment in place, I think it sounds and looks pretty good. I don't know, you can judge from this video. So again, Matt Mullenweg, check out distributed.blog. I'm on Twitter and Instagram @photomatt, which is P-H-O-T-O-M-A-T-T. And the post that talks about this, I'll link it below and also check out my main blog, which is ma.tt. Oh, I'm also on Tumblr at Photomatt, P-H-O-T-O-M-A-T-T. So those places you can check it out. Thanks so much. I'll see y'all next time. Bye-bye.