American - Businessman | 1968 -
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.
Mike McCue
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I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
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I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
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That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.
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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.
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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.
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My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
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In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.
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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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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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What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
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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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