Name: Amit Kapur, CEO Of Gravity - Bothsides TV With Mark Suster by Upfront Ventures in Startup and VC ideas
Duration: 59 min 46 s
Description: Mark Suster sits down with Amit Kapur to discuss early days at Myspace, as well as starting, growing, and the acquisition of his company Gravity by AOL.

Absolute GOLD! On why MySpace wasn't as big as FB: 'prioritisation of short term revenue over product innovation'.

Startup and VC ideas

Mark Suster sits down with Amit Kapur to discuss early days at Myspace, as well as starting, growing, and the acquisition of his company Gravity by AOL.

Amit Kapur, CEO Of Gravity - Bothsides TV With Mark Suster

When it comes to design thinking, few do it better than Tristan Walker.  Early in his career, the award winning, 30-year-old entrepreneur served as an intern at then fledgling "microblogging" site, Twitter.   Later, he moved on to become the golden child of Foursquare, helping build it to the point of cultural critical mass.  And now in addition to co-founding Code 2040, an organization designed to discover and create successful minority techies, Tristan helms his own Andreessen Horowitz supported operation, Walker & Company, focused on creating suite of non-digital, consumer conscious products.   On Innovation Crush, Walker breaks down his mastery of designing products and relevant marketplace experiences for his customers, building a team focused on innovation and diversity, and how his humble upbringing shapes his business thinking today.

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Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an expression of its machine learning expertise -- or a way to distribute it, and provide easier access to it. Evans joins the pod to pick apart all the latest machine learning-driven tech from Google as it hosts its annual developer party I/O. What’s become very clear this year, Evans says, is that for Google all the really cool stuff isn’t happening in Android, it’s happening in the Cloud. Finally, what’s next in VR from Google, and how it plans to tackle the developing world.

a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy

Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable why engaging corporate development groups is believed to be a waste of time, unless you’re selling your company.

But... there ARE good reasons to engage corporate development. You just have to know when, and how. And what to avoid! On this episode of the a16z Podcast, operating partner Jamie McGurk, and Tyson Clark and James Loftus (veterans of corporate development from companies like Google, Oracle, and Yahoo) share advice for founders talking to corporate development. 

a16z Podcast: Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev

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