Tyler Strand, Co-Founder and CTO at Air: $38 Million raised to Build the Creative Operations Category

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Tyler Strand, Co-founder and CTO of Air, a creative operations platform that's raised $38 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

Tyler’s background in computer science at Stanford, his love for music, and how this propelled him to start his first company as a 20-year old Why Ivan Zhao is an inspiration for Tyler, what podcasts Tyler listens to, and why he loves Ayn Rand’s books despite disagreeing with many of her ideas How Air helps creative teams manage image and video content by giving them a “Dropbox meets Pinterest” platform The magic of getting his first customer at Air – and the mess behind the scenes Creating a new product category, and how Air is different from legacy digital asset management platforms

 

Favorite book:

The Fountainhead