ScreenShop Demo at 500 Startups WMD 2015

  • May 20, 2015
Video Funny Talks

The folks at Comedy Hack Day reached out and asked Dan, Toby and myself to get the band back together to do the ScreenShop demo for the 500 Startups conference: “Weapons of Mass Distribution”. Unfortunately Toby was in New York and couldn’t make it, but fortunately I got all his lines!

Here’s the video embedded below and you should watch the whole thing, but if you want to jump to our demo you can click right here!

The performance went well, with none of the technical issues from the first big demo, and thanks Craig and Brian @ Cultivated Wit, to the crowd at WMD and to 500 Startups for inviting us!

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