Focus: Multimedia
Cary Marsh
Age: 34
Company: Mydeo
It was while her partner Iain Millar was building a website for their baby Cameron that Marsh realised how easy and cost-effective it was to host personal videos online. Pitched as a more private, ownership-retained alternative to YouTube, Marsh and Millar successfully pitched MyDeo to Microsoft, meaning that the service is the European hosting option on the software giant’s Moviemaker product. A year in, growth stands at 20% per month, with 100,000 users expected worldwide by November. Marsh says that reports of a takeover by Microsoft are just “rumours”. Watch this space!
