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Oct 2021
203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email
Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.Strik ... Show More
34m 18s
Oct 2020
202. The del.icio.us Story With Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us, is someone I’ve wanted to talk to from the very first day of this podcast. As we’ll discuss, del.icio.us was such a standard bearer of the web 2.0 era. Of user generated content. Of sharing long before Facebook or Twitter or any of that. ... Show More
1 h
Aug 2019
201. The History of Audible With Angelika Fuellemann
Angelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it really is funny to look back and think ab ... Show More
25m 4s
May 2023
(Bonus) @semaforben On The Golden Age Of Digital Media And His AMAZING New Book About It
This is the book I've been dying for someone to write! This is how digital media happened for 20 years! Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. Yay to finally having Ben Smith on the pod!
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44m 42s
Feb 2022
Don’t Let Your Virtues Become This Vice
2m 26s
Dec 2019
(Bonus) A Google Civil War? With Bloomberg's Mark Bergen
I had already reached out to Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen this week to talk about the Google Civil War, but then, of course, there was other big Google news this week. So, come for the assessment of Google’s culture at the moment but stay for an assessment of regime change and a lot m ... Show More
29m 4s
May 2024
THINGS WE WISH WE WERE GOOD AT!
49m 8s
Jun 2018
Hearst vs Pulitzer | The Headless Torso | 2
<p>If you lived in an American city at the turn of the century, you got all of your news from a single source: the daily newspapers. No where was that more true than New York City; in the City, two papers ruled them all. You had the <em>World</em> and the <em>Journal</em>. And th ... Show More
38m 30s
Jan 2021
Ditching Selfish Ideologies | John Milbank
29m 50s
Dec 2023
(IHP) TheGlobe.com Saga Part I
The story of the quintessential dotcom company. Also, if you squint, you can see the birth of social media. I said in the book, I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. Todd was great, but he was ti ... Show More
49m 25s
Oct 2019
Wild Plans: Airbnb Invests in Travel Company Atlas Obscura
5m 48s
Jun 2018
Hearst vs Pulitzer - Interview with Gabriel Kahn | 7
<p>Joining us today is Gabriel Kahn, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California. He’s a former Los Angeles bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal and a frequent commentator on monetization and the media.</p><p>He’s also taught courses on the history of j ... Show More
24m 2s
May 2023
The Secret History of the Internet
In this prequel to the 'ICANN and the 7 Keys to the Internet' podcast, David talks Marques and Andrew through the wildly interesting history of the internet. There's plenty of information out there about the beginning of the World Wide Web in 1989, but what was happening before t ... Show More
1h 25m
We’ve had a couple of people come on here to discuss how the New York Times got online, but the spiritual yin to their yang is the Wall Street Journal and we haven’t done enough to explore their path to embracing the internet. It’s worth doing that because they embraced a different model from basically day one. Almost alone among the web media pioneers, the ... Show More
<p>Ryan talks about why you have to think make progress for it's own sake. </p><p>Check out <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/ryan4?_pos=2&_sid=b454935cd&_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Daily Stoic</a> and <a href="https://www.thepaint ... Show More
<p>This week Jon & Kris chat all about the things they wish they were better at..a funny convo that actually turns into something deeper, you won’t want to miss.</p><p>Produced by <a href="https://dearmedia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dear Media</a></ ... Show More
<p>Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: <a href="https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes</a></p><p>We value the feeling of happiness above all else. But is it time we outgrew this self- ... Show More
<p>Today is Friday, October 25, and we’re looking at Airbnb vs. The New York Times.</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/ ... Show More