This is a sequel to my other story: The Fortune of François Martin, or How to Become a Crypto-Billionaire.
It is told by François Martin himself.
See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

While discussing with my daughter Joséphine, and my wife Borcsi, we realized that the minimum number of subscribers for MarJos Entertainment video business to be sustainable was around 10,000.

This would probably allow MarJos to produce more than 120 hours of content per month, that is two hours per day, on average.

In January 2025, the state of the HIVE blockchain was such that it would have been impossible to find 10,000 Hivers subscribing to MarJos video streaming. First, they would need to have an excellent product, then they needed to onboard new subscribers without them realizing that they had become Hivers, at least in the beginning.

Collaboration with 3Speak.

The idea for the product had not changed: many video series with many possible speaking and caption languages. Joséphine started to speak to the 3Speak principals about her idea. In particular, she had many conversations with @starkerz. Would it be possible to modify 3Speak to include first multiple captions, then multiple speaking languages?

With Amir and Marge, they showed a demo of their video player to the principals of 3Speak. Joséphine explained that she was not interested in taking over 3Speak business. They were ready to the general public the open source tools that would allow anybody to incorporate several caption and speaking languages into their videos. These videos could then be steamed using 3Speak, once the MarJos video player was incorporated into 3Speak.

It became obvious to 3Speak that MarJos was not trying to steal their IP to create another video streamer on HIVE. So, in February 2025, MarJos and 3Speak started to collaborate to build a test website that would be 3Speak with multiple speaking and caption languages.

MarJos and 3Speak engineers collaborated to incorporate into the 3Speak video player what Amir and Marge had put in the MarJos video player prototype. First, they added multiple captions. That was done in only one week because there was a standard for this.

It took them more time to add multiple speaking languages. But at the beginning of March 2025, they had succeeded.

Continue to Part 6

-- Vincent Celier