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Slow

Have you seen the Mary Meeker slides? She showed them at last week’s D Conference. But a tech entrepreneur friend of mine tweeted about them today, a week later. Or how about David Lowery’s screed about the new boss being worse than the old boss? That was posted on April 15th, but almost ever day […]

Robert Johnson

I went down to the crossroads… Or did he? I didn’t think I liked Christopher Titus. But after hearing him tell his story on Marc Maron’s WTF I loved him. Because he was honest and forthright in a world of complete b.s. He stood up to power, Gail Berman, the Fox exec who wanted him […]

Spotify Transparency

There is none. In Singapore, I interviewed Ken Parks, majordomo of Spotify’s U.S. operation. I told him I would ask tough questions. That I had to, everybody already thinks I’m on the Spotify payroll, I just couldn’t let him do a commercial. He said this was all cool. And then didn’t answer a single question […]

McCartney On Spotify

Backstage at MusiCares, Scott Rodger told me McCartney had nothing against Spotify, that he just wanted to do it right, that they were EQ’ing the catalogue and when it was ready, it would appear. And that first was "Ram". Not one of my favorite McCartney solo albums. Not as much of a let-down as "Wild […]