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Matt Mullenweg, cofounder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic embarks on a journey to understand the future of work. Having built his own company with no offices and more than 1,300 employees in 76 countries, speaking 95 different languages, Mullenweg examines the benefits and challenges of distributed work and recruiting talented people around the globe.
Helping bloggers, podcasters, and online business entrepreneurs grow their business! Host Pete McPherson chats with the world's TOP creators, including names like Seth Godin, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, Neil Patel, Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress), John Lee Dumas, and way more.Topics include blogging (duh), SEO, affiliate marketing, podcasting, and monetization (especially digital products and FUNNELS!). ;)
Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
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The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner
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The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner
Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner
The Hacking UI podcast is hosted by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner, a designer and developer who are also both entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacking maniacs, and all around tech geeks. The first season of the podcast is titled ‘Scaling a Design Team’, in which they speak with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, Invision, and Intercom, to discuss various team structures, responsibilities, and workflows. After quitting their day jobs to work full time on ...
Brad Touesnard and Pippin Williamson talk all about WordPress development.
Stuck@Om is a series of conversations about about technology and how it is reshaping our society. Om Malik (a veteran technology writer) sits down and chats with some of the best and the brightest from around the world. The podcasts supplement his writing on his blog, On My Om. (http://om.co)
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Venture Voice – interviews with entrepreneurs
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Venture Voice – interviews with entrepreneurs
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Muck Rack & Shorty Awards cofounder/CEO Greg Galant interviews the world's best entrepreneurs and creators, including the founders of LinkedIn, The Vanguard Group, Yelp, Brooklyn Brewery, Trello, Twitter and Stack Overflow.
The award winning Big Web Show features special guests and topics like web publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. It's everything web that matters. Hosted by Jeffrey Zeldman.
Show Notes HeroPress Essay: The good and the bad of open source WordPress Contact Info: http://lesley.pizza @lesley_pizza Newsletter Glue Episode Transcript Topher: Hi everyone! My name is Topher. Nyasha: And my name is Nyasha. Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Before we get started, I want to draw your attention to Nexcess. They are our sponsor a…
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How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
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Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in the world, and certainly one of America’s most complicated companies. The Times is 172 years old, and has only recently become a force on the internet. It’s hard to remember, but back in 2014 and ‘15, people thought the Times was doom…
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Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story
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This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominating the live events business in the United States that Congress held a hearing in 2023, because Taylor Swift fans were so upset about antitrust law. That sentence is wild. We’re going to unpack all of …
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‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
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In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. The last few decades have thrown some hurdles in Barnes & Noble’s way, however. Far from being the monster that inspired the plot of the movie You’ve Got Mail, it’s had to face down a new Goliath called Amazon and…
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Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
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Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him the perfect company leader to talk to about Spotify’s recent redesign, which introduces a visual, TikTok-like feed for discovering new content on the app’s homepage. As his boss CEO Daniel Ek put it la…
Show Notes HeroPress Essay: How I tried, applied, got involved. Realizing one of my childhood dreams. Contact Info: @Alice_Ridice WordPress.tv Episode Transcript Topher: Hey folks, this is Topher. This week’s episode of Hallway Chats is a little different. This is a live recording from working in Italy last November. Nyasha wasn’t there with me so …
Show Notes Silence Commentary, from Cassandra Decker Tom’s Socials: https://twitter.com/tomfinley https://wptoots.social/@tomfinley Websites / Projects: https://prufcreative.com https://tomfinley.co https://dcbeer.com Episode Transcript Topher: Hey, everyone. My name is Topher. Nyasha: And my name is Nyasha. Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Befor…
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Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years?
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Intro: Steve Bandrowczak, the CEO of Xerox, an iconic company that got started all the way back in 1906 as a manufacturer of photo paper and is, of course, best known for pioneering the copy machine. Here in 2023, Xerox has moved well beyond paper. It now works with companies large and small to provide IT services: it optimizes workflows, manages d…
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How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat
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Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago — he’s actually Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, which is pretty surprising considering that Reddit is a series of product experiences: the reading experience, the writing experience, and importantly, the moderation experience. One thing we always say on Decoder is that the real product…
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Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia digital CEO Conal Byrne
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We taped this episode live at Hot Pod Summit. That’s our conference for the podcast industry. We have a whole newsletter for podcasters. It’s called Hot Pod, written by our very own Ariel Shapiro. Hot Pod Summit is where we bring that community of creators, trendsetters and decision-makers together to explore the latest developments in podcasting, …
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Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. Today, I'm talking to Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and CEO of Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client, the Pocket newsreader, and a bunch of other interesting internet …
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Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why
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I’m coming to you from Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Bing search engine would be powered by OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT. There’s also a new version of the Edge web browser with OpenAI chat tech in a window that can help you browse and understand web pages. The …
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How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos
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HBO started as an experiment. It was a way to get people to switch from getting TV over broadcast antennas to cable by offering events you’d otherwise need tickets to see: boxing, plays, movies. That’s where the name Home Box Office comes from. But it grew from there in surprising ways: HBO was a major innovator in satellite distribution, in workin…
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The Do You Even Blog Podcast
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Building a Niche Site Empire (Anne from Yeys.com)
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At this point, Anne Moss (yeys.com) has a budding empire. A team of writers, multiple sites, loads of $$$$$ revenue, etc. But it wasn't always this way of course! In this chat, we'll discuss how Anne went from casual blogging to niche site empire. Hiring writers Choosing a niche KW research What makes "good" SEO content and more Show notes here: ht…
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Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
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A few weeks ago, President Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from a company called ASML to China. ASML is the only company in the world that makes a specific machine needed to make the most advanced chips. Apple couldn’t make iPhone chips without this one machine from the Netherlands’ biggest compa…
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Future of Search: A candid conversation with Sridhar Ramaswamy, an ex-Googler fighting his former employer with a new approach to search!
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Search is changing. You won’t hear Google talking heads talk about it very much because the types of things that are happening will fundamentally change the model the search engine giant has used to build its search and ad infrastructure. Sridhar Ramaswamy knows; he’s the man who led teams inside Google to build the ad technology that exists today.…
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Episode 162 – A Chat With Vassy Valchanova
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Show Notes This was a live, in-person Hallway Chat between Topher and Vassy at WordCamp Europe 2022 in Porto, Portugal. Vassy’s Site: https://valchanova.me/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasvalch/ Twitter | @vasvalch Episode Transcript Topher: All right, what is your name? Vassilena: It’s Vassilena, but I use the short version Vassy. Topher…
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$500k in 1 Year (from Facebook Page Likes?) Scott DeLong
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I found Scott DeLong's content only recently, and he's been blowing me away with what he's doing (and what he's done for years). And right now? Scott's deep in a challenge: start a new business from scratch, and grow it to a $500k valuation in one year (while only working 2ish hours a day). Scott's really impressive, and a nice guy to boot! Show no…
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Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
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I have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of its relationship to tech—whether that’s new formats based on new tech, like vinyl to CDs; new business models like streaming; or simply being disrupted by new kinds of artists who use new forms of promotion like TikTok in unexpected ways. I’ve always th…
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Ideas & strategies we're taking into 2023
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My BFF Raina Willick and I will chat about our 2023 "word of the year," as well as ideas, strategies, mantras, goals, and more. Hopefully you learn something (through our internet issues and my coughing bouts) ;) I <3 you, Do You Even Blog listeners! Go join my weekly roundup newsletter -> https://doyouevenblog.com/…
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Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
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Last year I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms, and how different kinds of distribution and creations tools create chokepoints for different companies to capture value that might otherwise go to artists and creators.. In other words, it’s a …
Show Notes This episode of Hallway Chats kicks off a new era with a new co-host Nyasha Green! And this week we talk with Matt Mullenweg. Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 40% of all sites on the web. He is the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooComme…
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‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best
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Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, and actually, I talked to Tomer twice. Here’s a little secret about Decoder: we do the interviews, and then often, the guest and I just keep chatting for a while. So after my first interview with Tomer, we were hanging out, talking about the perpetual battles between engineers, product managers,…
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How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
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We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. He’s making all these changes, and he’s realizing that content moderation decisions are quite complicated, especially when the stakes are high. But talking about Twitter in a vacuum seems wrong. There are lots of other social networks and community-based products, and they all have basicall…
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Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander
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Today, we need to talk about Bob. Two Bobs, actually: Bob Iger, the former and now current CEO of Disney, and Bob Chapek, the man Iger handpicked as his replacement, who flamed out and was fired by the board, and then, on November 20th, was replaced by Bob Iger. Bobs, man. The heart of this whole thing is total Decoder bait. It’s a story about how …
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A Beginner's Guide to PROGRAMMATIC SEO - Allison Seboldt
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I've been in the SEO world for 13 years... ...and this conversation with Allison Seboldt (Twitter here, creator of PageFactory) BLEW MY MIND. Show notes here -> https://doyouevenblog.com/programmatic-seo/ I've heard of "programmatic SEO" for years--but only recently started diving in. And when I asked Twitter for "who should I learn programmatic SE…
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How Bose compete with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder
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Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world: it was famous for the Wave radio in the 80s, it invented noise cancellation, you can see its logo on NFL sidelines every Sunday, and of course there are the popular consumer products like the QuietComfort headphones that reviewers like Chris Welch here at The Verge rate as some of the …
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On with Kara Swisher: Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
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Chris Licht faces an uphill battle at CNN. He got the CEO gig in the midst of a prickly merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and right after the shocking exit of beloved long-time boss, Jeff Zucker. In his first six months, he’s shut down CNN+, ousted Brian Stelter, and shuffled anchors around, including Don Lemon and Jake Tapper. This week, t…
