Matt Ruby on How Filming a Web Series Advances Comedy Career

In Chapter 3 of 19 in his 2014 Capture Your Flag interview, standup comedian and Vooza founder Matt Ruby answers "How Has Building the Vooza Web Series Opened New Possibilities in Your Comedy Career?" Creating nearly 100 webisodes for the Vooza online series teaches Ruby new skills, from screenwriting and acting to filmmaking and producing. Working on Vooza gives him skills and a growing confidence he can use to continue his work as well as to work on a pilot for a new comedy series.

Matt Ruby is a standup comedian based in New York City. He also founded Vooza, on online comic strip web series that makes fun of tech startup culture. As an actor, director, writer and producer, Ruby leads the creative direction for the team. Before his comedy career, Matt was employee #1 at 37Signals. He graduated from Northwestern University.