Ben Houston • 10 Minutes Read • July 26, 2025
This is the story of how I went from building Hollywood VFX tools to raising $65M for enterprise SaaS, and the three crucial lessons I learned along the way.
Tags: enterpreneurship, the-indus-enterpreneur, talks, software-development
Ben Houston • 8 Minutes Read • May 22, 2025
After twenty years building computer graphics software used in Hollywood blockbusters and enterprise product visualization, here are the crucial lessons that can help entrepreneurs build more successful companies.
Tags: enterpreneurship, the-ottawa-network, talks, software-development
Ben Houston • 6 Minutes Read • December 6, 2024
From solving a unique rendering challenge for a single film to becoming an industry-standard tool used in blockbuster movies like Avatar and Harry Potter, the origin story of the Krakatoa point renderer.
Tags: enterpreneurship, frantic-films, visual-effects, software-development
Ben Houston • 6 Minutes Read • December 4, 2024
How a pioneering web-based 3D editor pivoted from trying to revolutionizing visual effects to finding unexpected success in enterprise product visualization.
Tags: clara.io, enterpreneurship, computer-graphics, software-development