Sep 15, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 15 segments
Steven Galanis had the idea for Cameo at his grandmother's funeral. Four years later the company had gone from roughly $300,000 to $100 million in revenue with no marketing spend, was the…
Steven GalanisGuest
Matt EbertHost
So as you start thinking about, "How did I get to Cameo," right? You start thinking about- My two formative experiences right now had been social media related in their own way.
I built, while I was trading, some of the edge that I found, I was the first guy in the pit that was, like, on Twitter all day, right?
So I would go see stuff on Twitter that other people were gonna read about in the Wall Street Journal the next day or watch on CNBC later.
And, and because so many of the guys were just, like, unwilling to go do that, there was often edge that would pop up that would happen.
You know, if I was trading overnight, I might see something that was moving in the market because of what I-
I didn't get to the level where it was that impactful, but, like, I saw the power of Twitter in that era.
And then when I went to go work at LinkedIn, again, I saw how network effect and social media could kinda come through.
And really, one of the big takeaways from that period was the internet was creating a new p- type of person, a type of person that was more famous than rich.
So it used to be that there were only so many television stations, so to be a movie star-
... you had to be cast in that movie, or television star, you had to be on NBC, CBS, or ABC.
Then what happened was cable TV happened, and suddenly you have 40 stations instead of four.
And that's 40 times, you know, the 10 different shows that are on their station.
And then what happened was satellite happened, and now you have 1,000 channels.
So as you start thinking about, "How did I get to Cameo," right? You start thinking about- My two formative experiences right now had been social media related in their own way.
I built, while I was trading, some of the edge that I found, I was the first guy in the pit that was, like, on Twitter all day, right?
So I would go see stuff on Twitter that other people were gonna read about in the Wall Street Journal the next day or watch on CNBC later.
And, and because so many of the guys were just, like, unwilling to go do that, there was often edge that would pop up that would happen.
You know, if I was trading overnight, I might see something that was moving in the market because of what I-
I didn't get to the level where it was that impactful, but, like, I saw the power of Twitter in that era.
And then when I went to go work at LinkedIn, again, I saw how network effect and social media could kinda come through.
And really, one of the big takeaways from that period was the internet was creating a new p- type of person, a type of person that was more famous than rich.
So it used to be that there were only so many television stations, so to be a movie star-
... you had to be cast in that movie, or television star, you had to be on NBC, CBS, or ABC.
Then what happened was cable TV happened, and suddenly you have 40 stations instead of four.
And that's 40 times, you know, the 10 different shows that are on their station.
And then what happened was satellite happened, and now you have 1,000 channels.
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