Keen On
The innovative film maker Tiffany Shlain isn’t a great fan of selfies. They are mostly two dimensional, she told me at a FutureCast salon at the AT&T Foundry in Palo…
Matthew Puttnam is exactly the kind of guy one would expect to found a nanotechnology company.
Bob Sutton is one of Silicon Valley’s most influential business gurus.
According to Bill Rouse, the GM of Yellow Cabs of Los Angeles, riding in an Uber car is more dangerous than catching a traditional cab.
Tara Chklovski is the founder and CEO of Iridescent, a remarkable Google funded non profit dedicated to encouraging young women’s innovation in technology.
Reggie Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of Cvent, describes himself as a “15 year overnight success”.
Keen On… Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers In The Age Of (Nearly) Perfect Information
How do we decide what to buy? According to Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen, the authors of Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information,…
According to Downes, the innovator’s dilemma has now been replaced by what he calls the “innovator’s nightmare”. Today’s new technology products are so much better and cheaper than legacy products…
Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one — and one that could benefit from special attention. Earlier this month, Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston…
It was one of those coincidences that social media types call serendipitous. There I was, wandering around the basement of Las Vegas’ Venetian hotel at CES, innocently minding my own…
Having reviewed 2013 with me, Robert Scoble now turns his Google Glass eyes forward to 2014. What, I asked him, are going to be the really big deals in 2014?
It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California’s tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell. And he’s not going to take it any more. The fury…
Perhaps best known for his definitive book about Facebook, David Kirkpatrick is one of tech’s smartest and best informed writers. He now runs a media startup called Techonomy, which — through…
2013 has been kind to one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic characters – the blogger, tech evangelist and writer Robert Scoble. He published a well received new book, Age of…
There are, of course, many libertarians in Silicon Valley who see Washington DC as the mortal enemy of innovation. But according to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who was appointed to the…
Having raised over $37,000 on Kickstarter to make a TV show about the future of money, Heather Schlegel knows a thing or two about both social and financial value.
At last count, Tiffany Shlain’s massively successful new AOL short film series, The Future Starts Here, has already racked up 8.5 million views. An eight part series about life in…
The two biggest dogs in Silicon Valley are Google and Apple, and according to the writer Fred Vogelstein, they are waging a war for control of the $250 billion content…
While Jeff Bezos’ wife, McKenzie, only gave Brad Stone’s new book about Amazon one star, most critics have been much more generous about the “engrossing” The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos…
How old is social media? Maybe we can date it from the birth of Facebook in February 2004. Or perhaps we can go back to 2002, to when Friendster was…
There are few figures more legendary in Silicon Valley than Nolan Bushnell, the Atari co-founder who gave Steve Jobs his first tech job and the guy who turned down the…
As a feature writer for the New York Times Magazine, Wired and many other publications, Clive Thompson is one of technology’s smartest journalists. And now Thompson has brought his considerable…
Ali Rosenthal joined Facebook back in early 2006, when it was a 50 person startup with 4 million users and she quit at the end of 2011 when it employed…
One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments in promising start-ups like Fab, Klout and…
Best-selling author James Bamford is one of the world’s leading authorities on the NSA. At Disrupt SF 2013, he spoke on a great panel about online security and afterwards I…
“Average is over”, says economist Tyler Cowen in his new book of the same name. And success and failure in a world dominated by digital technology, he says, will be…
If you want to learn how to promote yourself, read Dan Schwabel’s CrunchBase entry. Alternatively, you could read Schwabel’s new book (out next week), entitled, appropriately enough, Promote Yourself: The…
Even if he hadn’t founded the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle – the co-founder of Alexa and Thinking Machines – would still be a first-round inductee in the Internet Hall Of…
Washington DC based tech investor and entrepreneur Chris Schroeder is one of the smartest guys outside Silicon Valley. Formerly CEO of Healthcentral and of Washington Post & Newsweek interactive, Schroeder…
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed”, William Gibson famously said. But, with 20 billion connected devices existing by 2020, Gibson’s optimism might be misplaced. Indeed,…
