Tony Haile is the CEO of Scroll, a New York-based company that is helping media outlets build a sustainable pay-to-read strategy. From 2009 to 2016 he worked for Chartbeat, a digital media analytics company. As a result, he thinks a lot about media, economic models and the open web. He talks about it with reporters, on panels and, obviously on podcasts such as this. We have gotten
Chris Michel, the founder of Military.com and Affinity Labs, is a well-known entrepreneur and investor. He is also an accomplished photographer and someone whom I call my photography guru. He is one of the quiet success stories in Silicon Valley, and his journey is chock-a-block of lessons. Michel sits on the boards of Dale Carnegie, Catchlight, Kixeye, and 3D Robotics. His photos have appeared in the National Geographic, the Smithsonian, the New York Times, the BBC,
After ten years, Dropbox is going public. Om Malik and Chris Albrecht discuss the file-sharing company’s impending exit, the troubles it’s had adding premium features to what is basically a commodity service, and what’s in store as the company must fight off giants like Google and Microsoft. Also: Om is reading The Grid, by Gretchen Bakke, PhD And Chris is reading The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark
Is Facebook even fun anymore? It’s big, noisy, and the glue that connects two billion people. Om and Chris chat the challenges for the social network, sacrifices made to the god of growth, and how Mark Zuckerberg is still one of the best CEOs in Silicon Valley.
Om sits down with Metamarkets Co-Founder and CEO, Michael Driscoll to geek out and deep dive on deep tech topics like AWS and Google Cloud, blockchain and edge datacenters.
And we are back on with my latest conversation with Abe Burmeister, co-founder, and CEO of New York-based technical/daily clothing brand, Outlier. During our hour-long conversation we touched on a variety of topics, from technical clothing, changing reality of fashion, impact of climate change on fashion and materials, bootstrapping his business and more importantly, why he does what he does. If
A conversation with Shakil “Shak” Khan, a London-based tech entrepreneur and special ambassador for Spotify. We talk about his life, and his journey from the streets to where he is today. It is a riveting tale.