Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 18, 1999

Richard Lang – Instant Video Technologies Inc (ivdo)

RICHARD LANG is Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Burst.com. A gifted businessman with an aptitude for electronics, Mr. Lang co-founded Explore Technology, the company that would eventually evolve into Burst.com, in 1988. Mr. Lang is the innovator behind Faster-Than-Real- Time_ video delivery and is the inventor of record for the bulk of the company's international patent portfolio covering bursting, video delivery scheduling and rapid casting. Mr. Lang currently serves as Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Burst.com and it is his technology vision that is at the heart of the company. Before Burst.com, he was the co-Inventor of VCR-2, the world's first dual-deck videocassette recorder and co-Founder and CEO of Go-Video in 1983. Go- Video is a publicly traded company on the American Stock Exchange and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Profile
TWST: Can you give us a brief overview of the company and a little bit

of its history just to kind of set the stage for our readers?

Mr. Lang: Instant Video Technologies is a small public