CreativeLive CEO Chase Jarvis on Becoming a Photographer and Building a Multi-Million Dollar Startup

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chase Jarvis, the CEO and Co-Founder of CreativeLive, the world’s largest live-streaming education company that’s had on instructors like Reid Hoffman, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Richard Branson and man, many more. Chase and I actually met back when I was working for him at CreativeLive—doing the marketing for their business classes, and I’ll be the first to tell you… he has a fascinating life story and it wasn’t always sunshine & rainbows for him. Chase is a multi-dimensional guy, and before founding CreativeLive—he was a serious college athlete on track to head to med school. But at that same time, Chase decided to pick up the camera his late grandfather had left him… he began shooting images of friends out skating & snowboarding, and eventually started to get paid for his photographs. Chase has built an incredible career for himself as an award-winning photographer, director, and artist. He’s done photography work for companies like Apple, Google, Red Bull, Microsoft and literally dozens of other household brands & sports figures. Chase has contributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning work, been nominated for an Emmy, and he somehow finds time to speak & host his own variety of online shows for his massive community.