Mike McCue
Mike McCue
Mike McCueis an American technology entrepreneur, who founded or co-founded such companies as Paper Software, Tellme Networks and Flipboard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
breathe leverage opportunity power rid room web
Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.
connecting following geared people
Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter.
evolved
TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.
excited experience information lots people sharing totally twitter via
I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.
cool experience good learned network people run running totally
Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.
college education good teaching
I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
certainly focus great looking news personal
One of the things that Flipboard is great at is certainly looking at the news in a realtime format, which a lot of the personal news aggregators don't really focus on, so you can see things right up to the minute.
cancer dad died help home mom technology tough
My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.
costumes great next thanksgiving wedding wore year
Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.
damage easily incredibly valuable
Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism, but if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem.
What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
careful created hope money stay twitter
Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.
great
There are a lot of problems with the Web, but there are a lot of great things about it, too.
coming facebook follow interests letting passions point products social web
Facebook is about seeing what your friend is doing. Twitter, you follow different people. Flipboard is about passions and interests and topics, and so it's the same social web that all of these products are letting you look at, but Flipboard is coming at it from a more topical point of view.