Show notes
This podcast features two of the visionaries of
today's world of Internet commerce and social media. Reid Hoffman
has been called "the most connected man in Silicon Valley," the
"uber-investor" who "has had a hand in creating nearly every
lucrative social media startup." He was the originator of the
PayPal online commerce tool and is the founder and Chairman of
LinkedIn, as well as an early investor in Facebook, GroupOn and
Airbnb. Joi Ito, a social media entrepreneur in his own right, is
now Director of the MIT Media Lab. A techno-prodigy and onetime
nightclub DJ, he founded the venture capital firm Neoteny Co.,
Ltd., and was an early investor in Kickstarter, Twitter and many
other innovative Internet companies. One of the world's leading
advocates of Internet freedom, he has described his vision of a
decentralized political structure, mediated through the Internet,
in the widely-disseminated essay Emergent Democracy. In this
podcast, recorded at the 2014 International Achievement Summit in
San Francisco, the two friends engage in a freewheeling
discussion of today's media landscape, with personal observations
of the industry's leaders and a tantalizing peek at its
future.


