21 years ago, I ran a small telecom operator in Paris, France. After prototyping what was probably one of the first video-on-demand services called Move.tv, my team and I were innovating within the telecom space and media. We managed to interconnect a web server with an interactive voice response system and a telecom switch to create and pilot video on demand services years before Netflix through a simple user experience on the web. But as we have learned the hard way, timing is everything. L...

21 years ago, I ran a small telecom operator in Paris, France. After prototyping what was probably one of the first video-on-demand services called Move.tv, my team and I were innovating within the telecom space and media. We managed to interconnect a web server with an interactive voice response system and a telecom switch to create and pilot video on demand services years before Netflix through a simple user experience on the web. But as we have learned the hard way, timing is everything. L...