About Us

The Company

WonderHowTo.com is a community-fueled, search engine and directory for Free How-To Video. With an index of more than 100,000 videos (March 2008), we provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly vibrant space.

Employing both human and automated curation, we are focused on one clear organizing principle: sourcing truly great, Free How-To Video. We are website and platform agnostic: meaning, we embrace all content providers whose videos display a bona fide intent to instruct... on any topic, in this big, increasingly Wonderful world. As of launch, WonderHowTo provides content from more than 500 specialized sites spanning 36 vertical categories and 403 sub-categories. And we joyfully add thousands of revelatory videos each week. Our strategy for continued growth is to empower our intellectually-curious community to spider the web for great, juicy, sharable how-to videos....because we firmly believe computers alone cannot shoulder the task of providing superior results. Beyond being the most comprehensive resource, we take pride in offering an arsenal of rich editorial choice with the simple goal of inspiring Wonderment. Read our blog. Sign up for our weekly email, the Wonder Weekly. Watch the Clip of the Day as we showcase celebrity how-to's, in depth member profiles, user testimonials, and even how-to exposés, (uncovering the alarming new genre of Faux-To's on the web). Let our guest curators and their signature Wonderlists guide you through the gripping, long tail world of how-to.

The Founding Team

Stephen Chao Co-Founder / CEO

2 Months spent in South America tracking UFO encounters for the National Enquirer.
5 Times Fox Broadcasting Company asked in 1989 to replace the Bad Boys theme song for COPS.
359 Previous Latin salutadictorians from Harvard.
967 Criminals caught by America's Most Wanted through November 2007.
300,000 Dollars paid to purchase Monk script in 2001.

Mike Goedecke Co-Founder / Head of Product & Technology

6 Age he made his first super-8 movie.
6 Number of Indian Network TV Channels designed.
9 Number of times he has listened to the entire Alan Watts audio collection.
14 Age he convinced his teachers to let him make videos instead of writing term papers.
43 Million people who saw his JCPenney advertisement during the Academy Awards.

Bryan Crow CTO

12 Countries he visited before graduating from High School.
13 Age he started making money off of the internet.
15 Age he first managed to hack-together the code to write a home-brew simon game for the SEGA Dreamcast VMU.
25 Programming languages under his belt.
500,000 Lines of code written for this version of WonderHowTo.com

Amie Arbuckle VP Curation

1 Lives saved during tenure as a professional Brookfield Town Park lifeguard.
3 Stitches sewn in her foot at an El Salvadorean free clinic to remedy a surfing injury.
17 Weeks spent looking for a video on training flying squirrels.
38 Hours spent fighting birth until she submitted to the fury of cesarean section on November 19th (write that down - it's her birthday).
293 Floridian voters she helped get to the polls for the 2004 US Presidential Election.

Ford Austin VP Original Production

1 Number of Catholic schools he was expelled from for "flatulating" on a nun.
4 Number of foreign languages his voice has been translated into for movies and TV.
10 Age he made his first comedy radio talkshow (The Mr. T Show with special guests Alvin & The Chipmunks and Jimmy Stewart).
16 Number of Graduate schools that offered him a full scholarship.
460 Number of pictures Ford takes in an average weekend.

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