Tyler Cowen – How to Think About the Future & Life-Long Learning
David Gil speaks with Tyler Cowen (@TylerCowen). He is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the Chairman and Director of the Mercatus Center, a best-selling author,...
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The Future of Media: Ads vs Subscriptions
YouTube announced yesterday that they’re going to shift their focus back to being an ad-supported platform and will greatly reduce their spending on original premium content. The YouTube...
Stepping Over Dollars, Grasping at Dimes
An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the...
The Great Brand Shift: A Death of the Middle
Companies that succeed in a digital world are either using new technologies to provide incredibly low priced and convenient solutions, the Amazon and Walmart model. Or, they are...
How Amazon is Building the Next Big Ad Platform and Why You Should Care
Amazon is already on track to sell $4.6 billion worth of ads this year, and that number is growing quickly, up from $2.2 billion a year ago. That...
Sneakers, Scooters, and Startups: A Race to the Bottom (And to the Top)
What happens when the consumer demand for a new trend or technology explodes? Often there are many competitors all jockeying for market share of a quickly growing industry,...
Landing Fortune 500 Clients & Raising Money from Big VCs – Amanda Greenberg, CEO of Balloonr
David Gil speaks with Amanda Greenberg (@AKGreenberg), the co-founder and CEO of Balloonr. Balloonr is a new breakout SaaS company that enables idea meritocracies within organizations. They discuss...
The Most Important Chart in Marketing
Quality and quantity are the only two metrics that matter in life and the same goes for marketing. This chart compares a marketing platform's quality of clicks (Conversion...
Building the Future – Interview w/ Travis Walker, Co-Founder & CMO of ARK.io
David Gil speaks with Travis Walker (@dontminedotcom), the co-founder and CMO of ARK. ARK is arguably one of the most ambitious tech projects being worked on currently. They...
Blockchain for Business – Interview w/ Petko Petkov, Lead Developer for Ardor & Nxt
David Gil sits down with Petko Petkov (@petkodp), a lead developer at Jelurida/Nxt/Ardor. They discuss the power of "Blockchain for Business," the biggest challenges facing crypto as a...