The chilly relationship between Brightcove and Maven

Steve Safran October 15th, 2007

LR pal Scott Kirsner writes a great piece in today’s Boston Globe that gives insight into the birth of Brightcove, which had its roots in the same Cambridge tech incubator as Maven Networks. Jeremy Allaire, who was on the board of Maven, raised enough money to start Brightcove and announced his intentions to Maven CEO Hilmi Ozguc in August, 2004. Ozguc was “mildly surprised,” and even though, as Allaire says, “(Maven) had complete transparency into what I was doing and what the business plan was,” things have been chilly ever since. A great story.