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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety.
decide packaging people
As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.
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Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
ideas people firsts
Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.
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What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.
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TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.
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I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.