Brad Hunstable

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Brad Hunstable

Ustream.TV Founder Brad Hunstable 2007
Born 1978
Flag of the United States U.S.
Occupation Founder, Ustream.TV
Spouse April Hunstable (2003-present)
Children 2
Website
Ustream.TV

Brad Hunstable (born 1978) is co-founder and President of the popular Los Altos, California-based live video microbroadcasting website Ustream.tv, one of the biggest consumer live video sites on the Internet.

Ustream.tv was recently selected as a PC Magazine Editor's Choice.[1] Notable investors include Frank J. Caufield[2] and the Band Of Angels.[3]Recently, General Wesley Clark[4] has joined Ustream.TV's board of advisors.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early years

Fred Bradley Hunstable was born on September 26, 1978 in Tarrant County, Texas, and grew up near Fort Worth, Texas, with a younger sister (Ashlee) and a younger brother (Nathan). His parents are Fred Eugene Hunstable, an electrical engineer, and Candace "Candy" Lee Cotter, a school teacher. Since childhood, he has shown an interest in technology. at age 11, he started one of the largest Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) called the Dark Realms.

He graduated from Granbury High School, Granbury in 1997, where his mother still works. He then went on to receive his B.S. in Engineering Management from West Point. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. While in the Army, the now Captain Hunstable graduated from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business with an MBA in Finance and Real Estate.

[edit] After West Point

After West Point, Hunstable was required to serve 5 years in the US Army. He served in various capacities around the world working jobs both for the US Army and the Department of Defense directly.

In 2005, he left the US Army to work for Hillwood Development, a real estate company owned by Ross Perot developing master planned communities in Dallas/Fort Worth.

[edit] Birth of Ustream

Ustream.tv was born when the founders (Brad Hunstable, Johnny Ham, and Dr. Gyula Feher) wanted a way for their friends in the Army, who were deployed overseas in Iraq during the war, to be able to communicate with their families back home. A product like Ustream would provide them with a way to talk to all of their relatives at once when free time in the war zone was limited.

Previously, these three had worked together on an internet based event photo sharing website using technology created by Dr. Feher. In 2003, both Brad and John Ham were deployed to active duty, putting an end to this venture. After returning to civilian life, Brad and John discussed the idea of the general public using the Internet to share live video. Seeing this as a viable product, they contacted their former partner, Dr. Feher, in order to develop the technology required. Ustream.tv was founded in 2006, as experiments in broadcasting Brad's brothers's band proved successful. Early testing involved Brad in the audience with a camera wired to a laptop (with a cellular card) in his backpack, sending the stream back to their test server.

Launching their public beta in March 2007, Ustream.tv was the first of a series of live video sites include Justin.tv and Operator11.com. The company has seen large growth in the political, entertainment, and technology fields.[5]

Ustream.tv has witnessed many notable people streaming from politicians such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards[6] to artists like Tori Amos and the Plain White T's[7]. The technology community has also adopted Ustream to include Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, Chris Pirillo, and Cali Lewis.

Ustream.tv recently announced partnerships with meebo [8] and Bebo. [9].

[edit] Personal life

Hunstable is married to April Hunstable. They have two children together.

[edit] References

  1. ^ New Ways to Webcam - Ustream.tv - Reviews by PC Magazine
  2. ^ Merry Christmas, Mom: Ustream links soldiers with home | Crave : The gadget blog
  3. ^ UStream.TV Gets Some Cash And General Wesley Clark
  4. ^ UStream.TV Gets Some Cash And General Wesley Clark
  5. ^ Ustream.TV Experiences Significant Business Growth; Company Adds New CEO, Industry Partners and Thousands of Users
  6. ^ YouTube and UStream Go Political
  7. ^ The Ustream.TV Blog » Blog Archive » Plain White T’s Event Serves 130,000
  8. ^ Free Preview - WSJ.com
  9. ^ Ustream.TV Joins Bebo's Open Media to Introduce Live, Interactive Video Broadcasting to Social Networking

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