VideoJax is the brand new online game and community for people who love trivia, pop culture, movies, music, politics, sports, online video and user generated content. The concept is quite simple - you are challenged to answer questions we have created around popular video clips on the web. The questions can be as simple as identifying a famous person in a movie, music, or news clip. Or they can be a little more challenging requiring that you know some other piece of trivia about a particular clip.
Our goal? Create the most entertaining video trivia game and community possible.
Over the past year, we have scoured the Internet and have created nearly 10,000 questions in over 100 categories ranging from movies, TV, and music to sports, news, and user generated content.
VideoJax is the place where you can challenge yourself and your friends to a fun, new entertainment experience which combines the excitement, competition and prizes of classic game shows with the social fun of casual games. But unlike most games, you can also submit your own questions and games for prizes!
The Company was founded by a group of passionate entrepreneurs who never understood why there wasn't a dominant experience on the web which tapped into the passions millions of people have for web video and online gaming. We hope you enjoy our new community. We welcome any comments you might have. VideoJax is located in San Francisco, California
Doug Barry - Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of VideoJax
As the founding CEO of VideoJax, Doug Barry has spent the past 20 years in the media and technology fields and enjoys an impressive track record of identifying early trends in the media, Internet, wireless and interactive TV industries as an investor, entrepreneur and executive.
In 1985, Doug began his career in television where he was involved with developing and producing television game shows including Win, Lose or Draw and The Joker's Wild. Believing in the future of interactive entertainment, Doug joined Electronic Arts in 1991 as a product development executive where he produced a number of award winning titles. During his tenure, the Company grew from less than $100M to over $400M in revenues.
Following EA, Doug founded an entertainment software company which was acquired by Turner Broadcasting, where he became Senior Vice President & General Manager of Turner New Media. At Turner, Doug managed the division's CD-ROM/videogame publishing, interactive licensing, and online businesses, including CartoonNetwork.com, a site that grew to over 1 million visitors per month.
Realizing the power of the Internet, Doug left Turner in 1997 to become President of Services for a Netscape startup, Navio Communications (later renamed Liberate), an Internet TV software startup that went public for over $1 billion.
Prior to VideoJax, Doug has been an investor in numerous innovative companies including Panopticon, a personalization technology startup acquired for over $100M, Pandora Media, a top Internet radio service with over 10 million registered users, and BigFix, a next generation software/services company. Doug also served as an advisor or consultant to various innovative "new media" startups including TIVO and Glumobile.
Doug received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from Harvard University.
Lawrence Taymor - Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer
Lawrence started his career in broadcast television, winning cable Ace awards for producing Disney Channel programming. He moved into technology to fulfill a business vision he later developed at NBC, to expand the power, reach, and revenue of television. Lawrence founded Interactive Network Television (an affiliate of Interactive Network) that designed and produced over 3,500 episodes of interactive games for network television programming from Sony, NBC, and CBS.
During this time, Lawrence created interactive versions of hit game shows including Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, The Dating Game and Jeopardy for which he won an Interactive Academy Award. After selling his company’s core IP to Sony Pictures, he started that studio’s first interactive group which grew to a team of over 100.
Following Sony, Lawrence joined Turner New Media as VP of Online Programming. He grew his product line revenue over 300% in his first year. After the merger of Tuner and Warner Bros., Lawrence joined a spin out of Netscape, Navio that would later become part of Oracle and Liberate Technologies. The company’s mission was to provide technology to cable and telco’s linking their consumer services to Internet. Lawrence led the strategic partnerships group forging key content and technology relationships with Intel, Disney, Sony, Turner and key players in the cable and setup box businesses. Lawrence was part of the core team managing the IPO that eventually led the company to a market cap of $4B.