Never Give Up
JibJab wasn't exactly an overnight sensation for CEO Gregg Spiridellis. For the first six years of business, with brother Evan, he had to use the skills he had to scrape by until finally hitting the big time. Listen to how JibJab survived the .com bust and soldiered on to become one of the most influential online media powerhouses of our generation.
About Gregg and Evan Spiridellis Evan and Gregg Spiridellis founded JibJab in 1999 with a few desktop computers, a dial-up Internet connection and the dream of building a big new media brand. Five years later, they achieved ‘overnight success’ when their 2004 election parodies, This Land and Good to be in DC, were seen over 80 million times around the world, leading Peter Jennings to name the brothers ‘People of the Year’. Since then, Gregg and Evan have built JibJab into a leading online entertainment brand with 6 million registered members and over 100 million annual visitors to their website. Thirteen of their videos have premiered on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. They have formed digital distribution partnerships with Yahoo! and MSN, produced branded entertainment campaigns with Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, Verizon Wireless, and OfficeMax, and secured financing from Polaris Venture Partners, Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Gregg, JibJab’s CEO, is a recovering investment banker with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Evan, JibJab’s Chief Creative Officer, was a successful independent filmmaker with a BFA in Illustration from Parson’s School of Design.
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