Com 140 - Paul Saffo
Big ideas:
- The media revolution of the internet is in the same stage as TV was in the early 50’s just at the beginning of TV’s adoption.
- Erik Barnouw
- Example about remote controls - period of experimentation
- Example about the printing press and how trashy novels were one of the first applications of the printing press
- Blog is not sustainable (pampleteering)
Quips:
- “Venture capitalists sleep like babies - they wake up after 2 hours and cry”
- “Failing forward”
- “One sure fire way to tell if something is going to take off is that it alarms parents.”
- “Most stuff on the web still looks like a page”
- Three things determine success - who you know, how fun you are to work with, top quality work
- Any company that is a control freak fails