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It’s Not Just Disney

Does any CEO have an answer to media’s identity crisis?

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Rosen is the author of Parqor, the handbook every media and technology executive needs to navigate the seismic shifts underway in the media business.

Nov 22, 2022 9:00am PST · 16 comments

Photos by Getty, Bloomberg. Art by Shane Burke.

Opinion

Vinod Khosla Wants More Crypto Regulation—Now

Consistent, visible enforcement against crypto fraudsters will accelerate mainstream crypto adoption, to the benefit of society.

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Vinod Khosla

Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technology fan.

Nov 17, 2022 9:00am PST · 5 comments

Photos by Bloomberg. Art by Mike Sullivan.

Opinion

TikTok Is the Canary in the U.S.-China Coal Mine

Diplomacy has done little if anything so far to restore trust in tech between the two rival powers.

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Graham Webster

Webster is a research scholar and editor-in-chief of the DigiChina Project at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center.

Nov 16, 2022 9:00am PST

TikTok’s Secret Weapon Has Always Been Audio

By Ryan Broderick · Nov 10, 2022 9:00am PST · 2 comments

Opinion

TikTok’s Secret Weapon Has Always Been Audio

Rumors of a standalone audio app from the Chinese juggernaut should have both YouTube and Spotify quaking.

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Ryan Broderick

Broderick is a freelance writer and podcaster who focuses on web culture and technology.

Nov 10, 2022 9:00am PST · 2 comments

Opinion

To Fix Social Media, Give Us a Reason to Behave

We know how to regulate ourselves at the dinner table. Why should the internet be any different?

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Ali Partovi

Partovi heads Neo, a startup accelerator, mentorship community and venture capital firm.

Nov 8, 2022 9:00am PST · 17 comments

Art by Shane Burke. Generated by DALL·E 2 with touch-ups.

Opinion

How AI Is Generating a Tech Industry Upturn

A rising tide of investor enthusiasm lifts all startup boats.

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Aaron Harris

Harris is a co-founder of Magid & Co. and a former partner at Y Combinator.

Nov 2, 2022 9:00am PDT · 6 comments

Opinion

YouTube and TikTok Creators Are Tearing Up Netflix’s Streaming Rulebook

“Premium” creator videos are gobbling up advertiser dollars. With YouTube and TikTok spending nothing on content, who needs a $17 billion production budget?

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Andrew A. Rosen

Rosen is the author of Parqor, the handbook every media and technology executive needs to navigate the seismic shifts underway in the media business.

Oct 26, 2022 10:00am PDT · 15 comments

Elon Musk in front of a SpaceX rocket launch. Photos by Getty Images.

Elon Musk’s Management Style Is a Threat to Global Democracy

By Kate Klonick · Oct 19, 2022 9:00am PDT · 33 comments

Opinion

Elon Musk’s Management Style Is a Threat to Global Democracy

The text messages released during litigation confirm what the employees fleeing Twitter already suspected: Musk has no business running a speech platform.

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Kate Klonick

Klonick is an associate professor at St. John's University Law School.

Oct 19, 2022 9:00am PDT · 33 comments

Opinion

Fighting New Antitrust Rules Is a Bad Move for Big Tech

With new limits on platforms taking effect in the EU and U.S. politicians showing greater willingness to defy tech titans, companies would do better to cooperate with regulators.

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Brooke Fox

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Gene Kimmelman

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Fiona M. Scott Morton

The authors are scholars whose work spans both the theory and the practice of antitrust regulation.

Oct 12, 2022 9:00am PDT · 4 comments

Opinion

We Need an Individual Contributor Track for Founders

Three and a half years ago, my startup was going downhill, and so was I. We were bleeding cash,...

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Roddy Lindsay

Lindsay is co-founder at Hustle.

Oct 6, 2022 11:00am PDT · 5 comments

Opinion

Wall Street’s Expectations for Legacy Media Are Getting Weird

Investors wanted streaming growth. Now they want revenues. But what else will the streaming consumer want to pay for?

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Andrew A. Rosen

Rosen is the author of Parqor, the handbook every media and technology executive needs to navigate the seismic shifts underway in the media business.

Sep 30, 2022 9:00am PDT

How to Survive the Downturn Without Losing Your Shirt—or Your Sanity

By AJ Ayers · Sep 28, 2022 9:00am PDT

Opinion

How to Survive the Downturn Without Losing Your Shirt—or Your Sanity

Waiting for the market to bounce back is not a strong financial plan.

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AJ Ayers

Ayers is a co-founder of Brooklyn FI, a wealth management, financial planning and tax firm.

Sep 28, 2022 9:00am PDT

Opinion

Why China’s Startup Investors Depend on U.S. IPOs

There may be plenty of venture cash floating around China, but returns remain scarce.

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Ming Liao

Liao is the founding partner of Prospect Avenue Capital, a China tech-focused growth fund.

Sep 21, 2022 9:00am PDT

Opinion

We’ve Got Misinformation All Wrong

Our conversations around harmful content will keep going nowhere unless we can agree on a set of terms.

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Karan Lala

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Josh Krivoshein

Lala and Krivoshein are fellows at the Integrity Institute.

Sep 15, 2022 9:00am PDT · 10 comments

Opinion

Venture Capital Isn’t the Problem—It’s Venture Capitalists

When investors focus on the wrong metrics, the results are predictably bad.

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Del Johnson

Johnson is a venture capital investor, limited partner, angel investor and author.

Aug 31, 2022 9:00am PDT · 25 comments

What We Don’t See Online Is Warping Our View of the World

By Jillian York · Aug 24, 2022 9:00am PDT

Opinion

What We Don’t See Online Is Warping Our View of the World

The way social media companies have responded to recent conflicts such as the war in Ukraine sharply illustrates inequities in content policy enforcement.

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Jillian York

York is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's director for international freedom of expression.

Aug 24, 2022 9:00am PDT

Amazon; HBO; Disney+. Art by Mike Sullivan

Opinion

It’s Not TV, It’s the Customer Experience

The coming month will be a key test for Amazon’s, Disney’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming business models. Only two of them seem poised for long-term success.

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Andrew A. Rosen

Rosen is the author of PARQOR, a newsletter about the post-streaming wars media convergence.

Aug 19, 2022 9:00am PDT

Opinion

Whatever Happens Between China and Taiwan, the U.S. Needs Its Own Chips

The CHIPS and Science Act is a start, but it will take a lot more investment and ingenuity for the U.S. to shore up its semiconductor supply.

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Jared McKinney

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Mark Rosenblatt

McKinney is an assistant professor of international security at Air War College, and Rosenblatt runs Rationalwave Capital Partners, an early stage technology venture fund.

Aug 17, 2022 9:00am PDT · 3 comments