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The Artificial Intelligence PodcastInterview #77 Paul Canetti, CEO of SkejJoin Paul Canetti, CEO of Skej, as he discusses the unique challenges of building AI products that operate without traditional user interfaces, instead functioning as virtual humans with email addresses, phone numbers, and Slack handles that interact through natural language. Drawing from his experience in UX design at Apple during the iPhone era, Canetti explains how building non-deterministic AI systems fundamentally differs from traditional software, requiring multiple quality assurance layers to prevent hallucinations and ensure AI assistants know when to remain silent in group conversations. He explores the shift toward anthropomorphized AI assistants with distinct personalities, arguing that as...
2025-10-1038 min
Il était une fois ParisPasserelle Emmanuelle RivaEmmanuelle Riva (1927-2017) est révélée au cinéma en 1959 par son rôle marquant dans Hiroshima mon amour d’Alain Resnais. Originaire des Vosges, elle rejoint Paris en 1953 pour intégrer l’école de la rue Blanche (9e) et se former au théâtre. Figure incontournable du cinéma et de la scène, elle reçoit en 2012 le César de la meilleure actrice pour Amour de Michael Haneke, l’une de ses dernières apparitions à l’écran. Elle laisse également une trace poétique à travers trois recueils de poèmes publiés au fil de sa carrière. Aujourd’hui...
2025-10-0707 min
Zukunft Denken – Podcast133 — Desinformiere Dich! Ein Gespräch mit Jakob SchirrmacherDer Titel dieser Episode lautet »Desinformiere Dich!« – orientiert sich am Buch meines Gastes, Jakob Schirrmacher. Es freut mich ganz besonders, Jakob zum Gespräch begrüßen zu dürfen.
Jakob Schirrmacher ist Referent für Medienbildung und Digitalisierung, Publizist und Gründer der NGO Free Speech Aid. Er beschäftigt sich mit Fragen rund um Meinungsfreiheit, Desinformation und den gesellschaftlichen Folgen digitaler Technologien. In seinen Essays – unter anderem für die WELT – analysiert er kritisch den Umgang von Politik und Medien mit Wahrheit und öffentlicher Debatte. Mit Free Speech Aid setzt er sich für mehr Meinungsfreiheit ein – und dafür, w...
2025-09-011h 05
Table of Content - der Sachbuch-PodcastSachbuchforscher Michael Schikowski über ein unsichtbares Genre und seine Klassiker
Was unterscheidet ein Sachbuch von einem Roman? Dass die Antwort komplizierter ist, als es auf Anhieb scheint, stellt sich im Gespräch mit Michael Schikowski schnell heraus. Und ebenso, dass es für das Schicksal eines Buches entscheidend sein kann, welchem Genre es zugeordnet wird. Schikowski beschäftigt sich seit Jahrzehnten wissenschaftlich und essayistisch mit dem Sachbuch. Woher diese Leidenschaft rührt, verrät er mir im Podcast. Wir reden über die Unsichtbarkeit des Sachbuchs, die sich aus dessen Gegenwärtigkeitscharakter ergibt. Welche Traditionslinien lassen sich in diesem scheinbar traditionslosen Genre erkennen? Was waren die gut verkauften oder einflussreichen Titel v...
2024-10-081h 34
Future CommerceBlurred Lines: The False Dichotomy of Physical vs. Digital SpacesRecorded live at VISIONS Summit: NYC 2024, join Paul Canetti as he sits down with Reggie James and Ruby Thelot. We explore the concept of being "too online" and whether the dichotomy between digital and physical worlds is still relevant. Ruby and Reggie share their thoughts on the cultural shifts driven by our online presence, the importance of physical spaces, and the impact of digital status-seeking on our everyday lives. Listen now!From Avatars to AI Key takeaways:The line between digital and physical worlds is increasingly blurred. While there's a fascination with the physical r...
2024-07-0239 min
4ème de couverture185. Alain Finkielkraut "Pêcheur de perles" (Gallimard)Alain Finkielkraut "Pêcheur de perles" (Gallimard)Walter Benjamin collectionnait amoureusement les citations. Dans la magnifique étude qu'elle lui a consacrée, Hannah Arendt compare ce penseur inclassable à un pêcheur de perles qui va au fond des mers "pour en arracher le riche et l'étrange". Subjugué par cette image, je me suis plongé dans les carnets de citations que j'accumule pieusement depuis plusieurs décennies. J'ai tiré de ce vagabondage les phrases qui me font signe, qui m'ouvrent la voie, qui désentravent mon intelligence de la vie et du monde. Arendt, Kundera, Le...
2024-04-1530 min
El BibliófiloComentarios de la obra Entrevisiones de Bengala y Poemas de Kabir de Rabindranath TagoreEn la obra del ganador del premio nobel de literatura de 1913, nos presenta con sus cartas, el viaje místico con el cual formó su pensamiento poético, pasando de las descripciones de los paisajes y las gentes, a la inspiración e interrelaciones del autor con el paisaje, hasta la exposición subjetiva del interior del autor; todo de forma similar a la perplejidad de Kant citada por Eucken sobre el idealismo alemán. Acá me gustaron las relaciones que se crean con "las voces de Marrakesh" de Elías Canetti, o "las memorias del África" de Karen Blixen.
T...
2023-11-1816 min
I Love LegrandLa musique en héritage | Ep1durée : 00:49:46 - I Love Legrand - par : Leïla Kaddour-Boudadi - L’enfance de Michel Legrand est jalonnée par deux naissances, la première en 1932 dans un foyer déserté par un père chef d’orchestre peu regardant sous l’Occupation, la seconde en 1940 lors de son entrée au conservatoire et de sa rencontre avec sa mère de musique, Nadia Boulanger.
- invités : Natalie Dessay, Alex BEAUPAIN, Juliette Armanet, André Ceccarelli, Françoise Canetti, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Benjamin LEGRAND, Macha Méril, Jean Michel DEFAYE, Stéphane Lerouge, Bertrand DICALE, Didier Varrod - Natalie DESSAY, Alex BEAUPAIN, Julie...
2023-07-0249 min
BOSS by Ali LevitanBOSS with Paul Canetti, Founder & Professor at Columbia Business School - June '23Welcome to BOSS Paul Canetti, Founder & Professor at Columbia Business School (Tech & Product focus). I first met Paul during my time at General Assembly when he made me and my clients (i.e. L'Oréal Jessica McGiff-Drapiza Ana Melara) smarter in the tech, product, and UX space. "The thing I always really find myself wanting to do when it comes to tech and my career since then is try to figure out what is that next thing that's on the bleeding edge and how can I help other companies sort of get there to take advantage of it. If I'm p...
2023-06-0612 min
Boze Geesten | Open GeestenOpen Geesten #14 - Yuri Landman over massavorming en massapsychologie (audio-versie)Yuri Landman is striptekenaar, musicus en bouwer van muziekinstrumenten. Net als zovelen verloor ook hij, van de ene op de andere dag, al zijn werkzaamheden tijdens de corona-pandemie. Over zijn zoektocht naar wat er nou precies gebeurde tekende hij een graphic novel. Hij begon bij 'Totalitarisme' van Mattias Desmet, maar hoe meer hij erover las, des te kritischer hij werd op de conclusies die erin werden getrokken. Dat was het begin van een uitgebreide research-periode waarin hij alle boeken probeerde te lezen die met het onderwerp massavorming, groepspsychologie en massapsychose te maken hebben.
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2023-04-143h 28
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiMy Thoughts on Generative AII've been spending a lot of time thinking about the 3 different parts of generative AI tools like ChatGPT: inputs, outputs, and training data. There are many new applications that will be built using 1, 2, or 3 of these parts.
It's important for us to understand what is possible. The whole internet is about to change...
– PC
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ChatGPT
Disclaimers and Disclosures This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not financial advice.
2023-03-0724 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiFTX and the Destruction of TrustFTX and Sam Bankman-Fried have imploded, sending ripple effects through crypto and well beyond. But is this really an example of web3? Or is this just a classic case of fraud?
Technically, no, this is not web3. But do the semantics matter? The damage is done.
I usually edit my rants down to < >
Is it possible to create a system where we are truly no longer vulnerable to these sorts of con artists?
– PC
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Bankrupt FTX's new CEO outlines fund abuses, untrustworthy records
The C...
2022-11-1831 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiApple's NFT TaxThere was some debate in the web3 community about whether Apple was going to apply its standard 30% fee to NFT purchases made in iOS apps.
Spoiler alert: Yes, they did.
Is it fair? To discuss!
– PC
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App Store Review Guideline updates now available
Apple has new App Store rules for NFTs and cryptocurrency
Apple Allows In-App NFTs In App Store, But Slaps Its 30% Levy On Transactions
My new online course
web3 for Business
Disclaimers and Disclosures
I own Twitter and Apple stock. This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not financial advice.
2022-10-2816 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiKanye is buying bizarro TwitterWait 'til I get my money right
Then you can't tell me nothing, right?
– Kanye West
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Kanye West to Buy Parler, Joining the Right-Wing Social Media Crowd
My new online course
web3 for Business
Disclaimers and Disclosures
This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not financial advice.
2022-10-2115 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiMeta, one year inThe metaverse will not built in a year.
But it has been one year since Facebook rebranded to Meta and stated its intention to build the next phase of the internet. Let's talk about where they are now, and why so many people keep hating on them.
– PC
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Meta Connect Keynote 2022
Meta Quest Pro
Tech News for MBAs: Meta - What you need to know and why it matters
Hypothetically Great: Facebook bought Oculus, now Oculus owns Facebook
TechCrunch: Meta...
2022-10-1419 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiAnd the Oscar goes to... AIIt turns out that creative tasks are *not* immune to the robot takeover. Meta AI researchers have created a new AI that can generate video content on the fly from a simple text prompt. Basically, you send a text of what you want, and it creates a video of that exact thing. Film students everywhere, beware.
– PC
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Meta AI: Make-A-Video
DALL-E
GPT-3
DreamFusion
My new online course
web3 for Business
Disclaimers and Disclosures
This content...
2022-09-3018 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiSeason 4: web3 is upon usWelcome to Season 4! It was a big week in the world of crypto with the success of The Merge, in which Ethereum transitioned to a proof-of-stake network. As if that wasn't enough, Helium Mobile was announced– the world's first decentralized cellular network.
Buckle up, web3 is upon us!
– PC
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The Ethereum Foundation: The Merge
Bloomberg: The Ethereum Merge Ups the Stakes—and Reshapes the Crypto Universe
Helium Mobile
For $5 A Month, Crypto Now Has Your Cell Plan Covered
My...
2022-09-2418 min
OBS: RadioessänAustromodernismen ljuder av sammanbrottetEn centraleuropeisk mentalitet som levde kvar efter att det habsburgska väldet föll samman kanske gav det upphov till en egen modernistisk inriktning inom litteraturen? funderar Eva Ström. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.När Paul Celan 1920 föddes i Czernowitz i nuvarande Ukraina hörde staden till Rumänien sedan två år. Men dessförinnan hade denna region varit en del av det gamla habsburgska väldet kejsardömet Ös...
2022-06-2109 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiIs Facebook f**ked?We end Season 3 in the same place we started: Meta's latest earnings report. Spoiler– it's not looking good.
Why is this happening? Is it general market conditions? The maturation of social? Apple's "bullying"? All of the above?!
Companion episode from a year ago: Apple and Facebook Battle for the Future
H.A.G.S.!
– PC
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Meta Reports First Quarter 2022 Results
Meta says its metaverse biz lost another $3B, but the 2030s will be "exciting"
Apple Podcasts: Apple and Facebook Battle...
2022-05-0624 min
2022-04-0818 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiHacking the brainThis week I talk about two seemingly unrelated stories: a paralyzed man who is able to communicate using only his thoughts and the first ever basketball game captured through a new technology called volumetric video.
What do they have in common? Both have to do with how we perceive and communicate our reality, and both represent a way to essentially bypass our normal five senses.
As I like to say, the future is gonna be weird.
– PC
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Nature - Spelling interface using intracortical signals in a co...
2022-03-2524 min
The Pathless Path with Paul MillerdMusic, Entrepreneurship & Embracing Non-Work - Paul CanettiPaul Canetti is a professor at Columbia Business School and sits on the Strategic Advisory Board of Riverside Acceleration Capital. We explore his initial passion for music growing up, how he became an accidental founder, and how he's exploring his relationship with work after exiting his startup.
He was named one of Inc.'s “30 Under 30” and has founded multiple software businesses including MAZ and ClickEasy (originally Bounce House), both of which were acquired in 2021. He is an angel investor, startup advisor, and the author of an upcoming book about the business implications of augmented reality.
He...
2022-03-2159 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiIs Substack a news app?Substack announced its new iOS app that looks a lot like... every other news app. I thought this was a tool for writers to sell email newsletter subscriptions?
There are a lot of great business lessons embedded in their strategy, which is perhaps the hardest kind there is: B2B2C.
Also, I briefly touch on Apple's new product releases and the Biden administration's latest executive order on crypto.
– PC
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Introducing the Substack app
Apple unveils all-new Mac Studio and Studio Display
B...
2022-03-1122 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiDecentralization in warThe war in Ukraine is an atrocity, and it has been a long time since there was a military invasion in Europe. There are a lot of interesting ways that internet technology is playing an outsized role in this modern age. Live images and video on social media, propaganda campaigns, and as we will discuss in this episode– the benefits of decentralized tech are being put into practice in this conflict.
Ukraine is soliciting donations in cryptocurrency, SpaceX is delivering internet connectivity via a distributed satellite network. And it has only been a week.
I hav...
2022-03-0424 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiThe Super Bowl of CryptoSuper Bowl LVI was chock-full of ads for cryptocurrency exchanges, reaching over 100 million people who were all wondering the same thing: "Should I be buying crypto? And also, what is crypto?"
I thought this would be a good excuse to do a cryptocurrency 101 episode. What is a blockchain? What are cryptocurrencies? What is Bitcoin? What is Ethereum? Spoiler– I spend a lot of time on Ethereum. First, because it's awesome. But also, because it's a good example of how cryptocurrencies are often associated with a rich underlying project or business. (Bitcoin isn't, which actually seems to be the...
2022-02-1827 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiSeason 3: Live from Columbia, it's Tuesday night!To kick off Season 3 we did our first ever live recording, in front of the classroom of my Intro to Product Management class at Columbia Business School. We just set up a mic and went for it! Now everybody can have a taste of the classroom experience.
I have to say, it was way more fun to record with a live audience of 80 students, in a big beautiful room at our new Manhattanville campus, instead of by myself, in a small office.
We talked about Meta's record stock drop, Amazon's record gain, Apple's intense defending of...
2022-02-1119 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul Canetti2021: The year online communities invaded the real worldWe review these last 12 insane months, drawing out a central theme: community. Again and again, we saw examples of collaboration via digital tools to accomplish things in the physical world.
A lot to think about as we head into 2022...
And also, thanks for listening to the first year of Tech News for MBAs!
– PC
Disclaimer
This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not financial advice.
2021-12-1720 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiThe AWS outage and the perils of centralizationNetflix, Venmo, and Roomba were all down for hours on Tuesday. Why? Because they all use Amazon Web Services. We are incredibly reliant on just a small handful of solutions to power our entire society. Is that a smart idea? What if the web3/decentralized crowd have a point...
+ Some thoughts on Instagram's Senate hearing.
– PC
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Lawmakers urge the head of Instagram to better protect children.
An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries
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2021-12-1019 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiBuying the US Constitution with cryptoWe are going deep down the web3 rabbithole this week with a bizarre tale of anonymous strangers raising almost $50 million to buy a physical copy of the US Constitution, only to be outbid by an internet villain, and then in the end lots of people make a lot of money, completely accidentally.
I'll tell you the whole story through my own experience, where in the last few weeks I made a 50x return in crypto without even knowing I was investing in the first place. 🤔💸
– PC
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2021-12-0322 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiOne of the biggest IPOs in history... with no revenueHow the times have changed! It used to be you couldn't raise a seed round without some traction– now you can go public. Rivian, the company creating "electric adventure vehicles", just had one of the biggest public offerings in history. We will dive into how a company that doesn't even have a business yet could be valued at over $100 billion, electric vehicles generally, and the macro trends around speculative trading.
– PC
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Rivian announces pricing of upsized initial public offering
Disclaimers
I hold $TSLA...
2021-11-1917 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiRoses are red, Twitter is BlueOh Twitter, my beloved Twitter. User growth has almost stalled, but revenue growth is still going strong– and now, for the first time, a major social network has a SaaS subscription product available to its users. Twitter Blue is $2.99/mo and represents not only a new revenue channel for Twitter, but perhaps a new model for social products altogether.
Also, we'll kick things off with a bunch of metaverse-related announcements from this week.
– PC
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Introducing Twitter Blue - Twitter’s first-ever subscription offering
Microsoft Teams enters...
2021-11-1219 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiAllbirds goes public on the wings of ShopifyMy favorite shoe brand IPOed this week to much fanfare, and its success says a lot about the state of enabling technology platforms like Shopify, which Allbirds is built upon.
We also breeze through a couple of other headlines about the new laser eyed major of NYC and Airbnb's blowout quarter. And, I couldn't help myself, so I had a couple more things to say about Meta.
– PC
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Eric Adams on Twitter
Airbnb Announces Third Quarter 2021 Results
Yahoo Finance: Allbirds surges 90% on IPO day
2021-11-0515 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiMeta - What you need to know and why it mattersThere is no Facebook, only... Meta.
Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a longterm vision for his company in a way that most public CEOs wouldn't dare– and if he pulls it off, Meta has the potential to be much bigger and even more influential than Facebook ever was.
We'll dig in on what was announced and what it means for the future of the internet.
– PC
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Meta.com
Connect Opening Keynote
Meta: Founder’s Letter, 2021
2021-10-2921 min
Tech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiSeason 2: Back to schoolThe fall semester is in session, and we're back for Season 2!
I talk a bit about what to expect this season, what I've been up to over the summer (spoiler: a lot), and we will take a tour through the headlines from this week that set the stage thematically for where tech is going.
Welcome back to Tech News for MBAs.
– PC
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CNBC: Bitcoin jumps to new high above $66,000 after landmark U.S. ETF launch
Jack Dorsey on Twitter
The Verge: Face...
2021-10-2222 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiWhy did this podcast go MIA?Hi! As we approach the fall semester, I'm just checking in with a quick mini-ep to let you know what I've been up to, why Tech News for MBAs has gone dark the past few months, and to assure you that I will be back at it soon!
Fun trivia: My band in college was called Missing In Action.
– PC
2021-08-2701 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiApple and Facebook battle for the futureTim Cook gave a rare and revealing interview on Kara Swisher's Sway podcast responding to Mark Zuckerberg's assertion that Apple is one of Facebook's biggest competitors. (Spoiler: Cook says they're not.) But what if their competition isn't set for the present, but for the future? Professor Paul Canetti goes deep on his theory about how Apple's defensive moves against Facebook are less about advertising and privacy and more about handicapping a future challenger for the next paradigm shift in tech: augmented reality.
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Sway - Is Apple's Privacy Push Facebook's Existential Threat?
2021-04-0914 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiCome for the tool, stay for the networkWe do a deep dive on a popular but difficult to execute tech strategy that manages to connect the dots between many disparate customers into a massive (and valuable!) network, exemplified by new features from Slack and Stripe that were announced this week.
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Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs face House grilling
Bounce House
Come for the tool, stay for the network
Slack - Start a direct message with someone outside your company
Stripe - 1-click payments using Link with Stripe
2021-03-2716 minTech News for MBAs with Paul Canetti2.9% + 30¢A deep dive on Stripe, now worth almost $100 billion, Facebook’s moves into emerging markets, TikTok’s monetization strategy, and Uber faces new regulatory changes in the UK. Plus a new Random Startup You’ve Never Heard Of.
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Stripe has raised a new round of funding to accelerate momentum in Europe and reinforce enterprise leadership
Facebook targets emerging markets with the launch of Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB, in 170 countries
TikTok will make personalized ads mandatory on April 15th
Uber 'willing to change' as dri...
2021-03-1916 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiBest year everPandemics are the worst… unless you’re talking about tech. Reflections on a horrible year in physical reality that was great for software, the Roblox IPO (no pandemics inside virtual worlds is a plus!), Facebook moves deeper into the creator economy, Russia is pumping the brakes on Twitter, and Random Startup You’ve Never Heard Of.
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12 Charts That Show How Tech Took Off During a Year of Shutdowns
Roblox goes public: What to know as RBLX stock debuts on the NYSE
Hangio
Facebook expands fan payments, subscription options in app...
2021-03-1221 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiI’m a business, manJAY-Z and TIDAL join Square, new privacy laws and the death of third party cookies, Netflix launches a TikTok killer, Instagram tests out life without likes, and a random startup you’ve never heard of.
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Jack Dorsey on Twitter: “Square is acquiring a majority ownership stake in TIDAL”
Axios - Privacy laws push online ads beyond tracking
Sponsor: Bounce House - Sell your service online
Random startup you’ve never heard of: Kumospace
The Verge - Netflix has created a TikTok clone that lets people scroll through...
2021-03-0619 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiNon-fungible episodeSpecial guest Seyi Taylor helps explain what NFTs are and why it matters, Twitter wants you to pay for certain tweets, Spotify launches a new ad network, Random Startup You’ve Never Heard Of, and more!
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What you need to know about NFTs, the collectible digital tokens that are selling for millions online
Seyi Taylor on Twitter
Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets
Mirza
David Dobrik's retro photo app Dispo raises $20 million
Facebook says it will pay news industry $1 bi...
2021-02-2615 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiShould I pay or should I goAustralia tries to bully big tech and Facebook fights back, Bumble goes public, robots take selfies on Mars, and Shopify challenges Amazon. Plus our new segment “Random startup you’ve never heard of”
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Augment Nation: Moving Humanity to the Software Layer
Facebook Newsroom - Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia
CNBC - Bumble IPO: The female founder behind the dating app making market history
App Store - Dispo - Live in the Moment
Engadget - NASA's Perseverance rover lands safely on Mars
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2021-02-2019 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiCryptomaniaOur first expert guest! Shawn Cheng of Consensys Mesh explains the basics of Bitcoin so we can understand why Elon Musk is so obsessed with it. Clubhouse has Facebook hot on its heels. And soon you won’t even be able to tell who has a real face. So... just a typical week in tech.
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AP - Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, will accept as payment soon
Shawn Cheng on Twitter
NY Times - Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse
Digital Humans | MetaHuman Creator - Unreal Engine
2021-02-1217 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiThe everything CEOThis week we got hit with the news that Jeff Bezos is resigning as CEO of Amazon, Apple promoted an executive to work on a topic secret project, and we go through an overview of earnings reports from Amazon and Google.
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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Apple Newsroom - Dan Riccio begins a new chapter at Apple
Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition
Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Results
2021-02-0518 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiThe Trolls of Wall StreetA busy week of tech, and it’s still only January. Subreddits > hedge funds. Newsletters > tweets. Audio > video. Apple > everyone.
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NY Times - 4 Things to Know About the GameStop Insanity
NY Times - The GameStop Reckoning Was a Long Time Coming
Bloomberg - How ‘Flows Before Pros’ Is Disrupting Stock Markets
Twitter Blog - Making Twitter a better home for writers
Clubhouse Blog - Welcoming More Voices
Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Microsoft Earnings Release FY21 Q2
Facebook Reports Fourth Quarte...
2021-01-2918 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiRobot cashiers and privacy fearsThis week we discuss two major funding events in the new class of car companies, how people are worried about WhatsApp's new terms, the latest on Parler, Nancy Pelosi's stolen laptop, and changes to the way you will shop at the airport (and in general).
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TechCrunch - Rivian raises $2.5 billion as it pushes to bring its electric RT1 pickup, R1S SUV to market
TechCrunch - Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2 billion round
BBC - WhatsApp and Facebook to share users' data outside Europe and UK
Business...
2021-01-2216 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiSeason 1: Online speech, offline harmThis week we discuss the fallout across the Internet as a result of the siege on the Capitol including the removal of President Trump from many major platforms, its implications, and what it says about how ingrained technology is in our society. Other headlines include OpenAI's DALL-E, Apple's car initiative, and the failed acquisition of fintech startup Plaid by Visa.
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Wizardest - The limit of process
OpenAI Blog - DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
Bloomberg - Apple Targets Autonomous Car for Consumers by 2024 (paywall)
Plaid Blog - T...
2021-01-1526 minTech News for MBAs with Paul CanettiIntroductory episodeIn this brief introduction, Professor Paul Canetti explains what Tech News for MBAs is all about and its origins from the classroom.
2021-01-1403 min
ART FICTIONSEMMA COUSIN (and Jean-Paul Sartre)Emma Cousin selects the seminal novel 'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Published in 1938, it describes Antoine Roquentin's existential crisis which plays out in the library, streets and cafes of Bouville, which literally means 'mud town'. In a world devoid of God, lacking in meaning, Antoine shrinks further and further inside himself as he struggles in his search for purpose, finally deciding the best use of his life is to write a really critical book. Like 'Nausea' I guess ! In our conversation, we focus on Emma's post-lockdown solo show at Goldsmith's CCA, though her ideas - from biology to geometry...
2020-10-011h 23
Dad Hard With A PodcastEpisode 19: Start-Up Family (w/ MAZ Systems CEO Paul Canetti)We are BACK! It is week 24 of dadding and have officially come face to face with my baby's first REAL human poop... YUCK! In our guest segment I welcome Maz Systems CEO/Founder and Columbia University Professor Paul Canetti. We talk about the similarities between his start-up family and home family, the potential for technology to increase our children's memories and gaining back minutes in a day by shedding them from bathroom time!As always to connect on the fatherhood brotherhood email us at DadHardPod@Gmail.com until next week... #DADHARD
2020-01-211h 18
Content Is Your BusinessPaul Canetti of MAZ - Bringing Content to the AudienceContent may be king, but connecting content with the right people -- that can get complicated. That’s where businesses like MAZ come in, to empower content creators to do what they do best and to succeed. Paul Canetti, founder of MAZ (a content logistics company) shares how this mission is accomplished by bringing businesses of all shapes and sizes to every major media platform, from mobile and TV streaming apps to Apple News and even gaming consoles. Paul talks with host Natasha Cholerton-Brown and guest host Marc Raco (MouthMedia Network).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
2019-11-1456 min
I love LegrandTroisième mouvement - Legrand JazzSi la musique est la langue maternelle de Michel Legrand, le jazz est sa LV1 ! C’est un soir de 1948 qu’il assiste par hasard, salle Pleyel, à un concert qui va bouleverser sa vie : sur scène Dizzie Gillespie ! Son amour pour cette musique qu’il assimile à du vaudou le conduira à produire un album qui devient une référence : Legrand jazz. Il réunit alors Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans ou encore Herbie Mann. Avec la participation de André Ceccarelli, batteur / Françoise Canetti, éditrice musicale / Marc-Michel le Bévillon, contrebassiste / Hervé Sellin, pianiste Benjamin Legrand, fils / Benjami...
2019-07-2353 minI love LegrandPremier mouvement - La musique en héritageUne plongée dans les racines de Michel Legrand, placées sous le signe de la musique. Une enfance en demi-teinte marquée par l’absence du père, Raymond Legrand, chef d’orchestre très populaire et peu regardant pendant l’occupation allemande. Très vite, Michel fait d’un vieux Pleyel son confident, il pianote à longueur de journée jusqu’à son entrée au conservatoire qui signe son deuxième acte de naissance. Il rencontrera pendant son apprentissage sa mère de musique à qui il n’a cessé de rendre hommage, Nadia Boulanger. Avec la participation de Natalie D...
2019-07-1857 min
WizardestE19 // “Ghosts of Media Tech Past, Present, & Future” Sarah Chubb, Principal, Sarah Chubb ConsultingSarah Chubb is a media and ecommerce executive with over 25 years of experience building strong and profitable businesses online. She was the President of Condé Nast Digital and of Gilt City and has served as a senior advisor for IAC Publishing and The Daily Beast. Sarah reminisces on the early days of web publishing and monetizing content online, presents her recommended go-to-market strategy for any new media brand in the era of the Facebook/Google advertising duopoly, and shares lessons about leadership and management.
2018-02-2000 min
WizardestE18 // “Mental Athletes” Avani Agarwal, UX Designer at Google + Co-Founder at StatureAvani Agarwal is a UX Designer at Google where she works on products that center around social good, and she is also the co-Founder of Stature, a lifestyle brand for petite women. Prior to joining Google in 2011, she previously worked as an Art Director at Yahoo. Avani discusses her approach to design, creating a unified UX across Google, designing for consumers vs. brands, her experience as a startup founder, how AI and data can help inform design decisions, and assorted other topics.
2018-01-1200 min
WizardestE17 // “The Evolution of Presentation” Georg Petschnigg, Co-Founder and CEO at FiftyThreeFounded by former Microsoft engineers and designers, FiftyThree is the creator of the award-winning app Paper and their latest release, Paste, is taking on the holy grail of productivity tools: presentations. As an early proponent of iPad as a device for creating, Georg talks about the journey he’s taken at FiftyThree, design vs. engineering, auto-layouts, the economics of the App Store, and drawing inspiration from dance.
2017-12-0500 min
WizardestE16 // “Can Subscriptions Save Democracy?” Ben Frumin, Editor-in-Chief at TheWeek.comHow can we break out of our media echo chambers? The Week aims to provide a balanced, spin-free collection of news and opinion pieces from all across the political spectrum — a service needed today more than ever. Ben Frumin talks politics, echo chambers, business models for news, and why it’s important to see things from the other side.
2017-11-2200 min
WizardestE15 // “Getting Kidnapped by Bob Dylan” Marissa DeVito, Branded Content at SoundCloudMarissa DeVito, daughter of legendary producer and record executive Don DeVito (Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Aerosmith), talks about the current state and future of the music industry, her days creating early digital and social marketing strategies at Universal Music Group for artists like Justin Bieber, working at Sony Music Studios with Green Day and Beyoncé, pioneering digital remixing with her former startup Umixit, and ridiculous stories of getting lost with Bob Dylan as a child, and well as her current role working with brands at SoundCloud.
2017-11-0700 min
WizardestE14 // “170 Years of News” Ted Mendelsohn, VP, Digital and Commercial Markets, Associated PressThe AP has been reporting and distributing news for over 170 years, first delivered by boat and today by fiber optics. An industry veteran for over 40 of those years, we discuss how the business of news has changed over time, the AP’s unique wholesale and non-profit models, the resiliency of text-based media, paradigm shifts both past and future, and a variety of other topics.
2017-10-1700 min
HackToStartPaul Canetti, Founder & CEO, MAZ | EP 168Paul Canetti is the Founder & CEO of MAZ, a platform that empowers leaders in media to become pioneers in OTT and mobile technology. Growing up, Paul was exposed to design and technology through his father’s work and hobbies. Paul taught himself digital design and although he studied philosophy in college, he continued to maintain an interest in technology. After working in corporate environments and then consulting, Paul started building websites and then iPhone apps with a high school friend. Their passion for building products led them to creating MAZ, raising $2M, and then continuing to build and scale the bu...
2017-10-0348 min
WizardestE13 // “Putting the News in News Feed” Tara Vohra, News Partnerships at FacebookThe News Partnerships team helps journalists and media companies better leverage Facebook at a time when Facebook is playing an ever important role in the distribution of news — both real and fake. We talk all about fake news, workings of The Algorithm, business models for news, the age of individuals as publishers, and other assorted topics.
2017-10-0300 min
WizardestE12 // “Replace Your Face” iPhone X as the World’s First Augmented Reality DeviceIn my first ever solo episode, I explore my initial thoughts around iPhone X and its role as the first mass market AR device. I also discuss how AR will change the world in the future.(spoiler: glasses you wear all the time, loss of touch with physical reality, everyone having pet dinosaurs)
2017-09-2600 min
WizardestE11 // “Inside Angel Investing” Angela Lee, Founder at 37 AngelsAngela Lee is Founder at 37 Angels, Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School, and a lifelong educator and entrepreneur who was named one of Entrepreneur’s “6 Innovative Women to Watch”. We discuss what it takes to become an angel investor, the process of choosing which startups to invest in (hint: saying no a lot), and the power of education.
2017-09-1900 min
WizardestE10 // “The Business of Broadway” Steven Tartick, Executive Creative Director at RPMTo celebrate the 10th episode, one of my best friends, Steven Tartick, talks about the future (and present) of Broadway, how AI will impact the creative process, VR theater, our time together at Apple, productivity hacks, and more.
2017-09-0500 min
WizardestE9 // "Society as a UX Problem" Andre Plaut, Associate Director, Learning & Development at HugeAs a fellow Apple and General Assembly alum, and now doing L&D at Huge, Andre Plaut has a passion for the intersection of technology, education, and storytelling. After working with the Obama campaign and as someone more keyed into politics than most, he views everything as a design problem, even society itself. We dive into topics including first amendment rights, racism, the problems with modern media and what we can learn from history, as well as trading tales from the first ever iPhone launch.
2017-08-2300 min
WizardestE8 // "Musician Turned Tech" Vik Hristov, Co-Founder & Chief of Product Design at [Stealth Startup]Vik Hristov is a music producer and DJ turned tech entrepreneur — he is in underground mode on a new startup set to disrupt the restaurant industry. Having previously worked at Apple, Vik sees creativity as something that be applied in many different ways and strongly believes in the power of networking (he points out that 8 years after meeting he and recording a podcast as proof). We talk about topics ranging from veganism to hiring technical teams, and everything in between.
2017-08-2200 min
WizardestE7 // “Faster Than Amazon” Brian Shimmerlik, Co-Founder and CEO at Vengo LabsVengo is a cloud-enabled network of touchscreen vending machines that is disrupting the world of physical on-demand commerce, with a media twist. Brian Shimmerlik, Co-Founder and CEO of Vengo Labs, tells the story of how he started the company, his experience as a CEO and growing a company culture, dealing with rejection, and about his legendary TV debut on Shark Tank. Ultimately Brian’s vision for the future of touchscreens and ecommerce extend well beyond the mobile screen that most of us spend our time fighting over.
2017-07-1800 min
WizardestE6 // “Trump Might Be Right About Fake News” Blake Harris, Author of Console WarsBlake Harris is a bestselling author, filmmaker, and the brains behind Console Wars, a comprehensive “business thriller” about the epic battle between Sega and Nintendo - soon to be a feature film in partnership with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg as well as legendary producer Scott Rudin (think The Social Network, The Truman Show, and every other awesome movie ever), and he is now working on a new book about VR. We explore Blake's career and also get into a deep and rich discussion around media sensationalism, false realities, and how “President Trump might be right about fake news” - a perfec...
2017-06-3000 min
WizardestE5 // “AI Will Replace VC” Shawn Cheng, Principal at Vayner CapitalShawn is the guy that Gary Vaynerchuk (prolific entrepreneur, author, investor, and star of the new TV series Planet of the Apps) trusts to figure out what is going to be the next big thing. Vayner Capital has invested in some amazing companies we’ve all heard of like Snapchat and Medium, and tons that you haven’t heard of yet — and that’s the whole point of early stage investing: getting in before it’s obvious.
We talk about Shawn’s investment strategy, about Gary, about the future of VC, AR, fake news, the NY tech scene, new companies that are doing a...
2017-06-1500 min
WizardestE4 // “The Future of TV” Paul Wallace, VP - Media Solutions at VICE MediaPaul Wallace, VP - Media Solutions at VICE Media, and I had a fun conversation about everything media tech, ad tech, and the future of TV. We talk about what's happening at VICE, as well as programmatic advertising, monetizing off platform, OTT, and a variety of other related and not-so-related topics.
2017-05-2300 min
WizardestE3 // "Why Startups Fail" Brian Scordato, Founder at Tacklebox AcceleratorBrian Scordato, Founder at Tacklebox Accelerator, an early stage accelerator, gives a unique perspective on why so many startups end up failing. Also featuring MAZ COO (and my brother!) Justin Canetti as the three of us discuss cover topics ranging from common startup mistakes, getting to know your customers, what Y Combinator is really like, key differences between B2C and B2B businesses, and which gym memberships include complimentary towels.
2017-05-1000 min
WizardestE2 // “Cyborgs Among Us” Maran Nelson, Co-founder and CEO + Jason Laska, R&D at Clara LabsTwo time Y-Combinator alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 Maran Nelson and former Dropcam/Nest engineer and PhD Jason Laska join me for a deep discussion on using AI and machine learning to create amazing human experiences.
2016-10-3100 min
WizardestE1 // “Engineer Turned PM” Dasmer Singh, Product Manager at VenmoThe first ever episode of the Wizardest Podcast features a conversation with Dasmer Singh, Product Manager at Venmo and explores topics ranging from iOS development and product management to iOS 10, iMessage Apps, Siri, Facebook Messenger bots, and everywhere in between.
2016-10-1000 min
33voicesChanging the Entire Publishing IndustryChase Jennings & Jenna Abdou Interview Paul Canetti, Simon Baumer and Shikha Arora via Skype to discuss their startup that is changing the world of publishing
2014-05-0909 min