It's suicide. It's corporate suicide. | | | | Mellody Hobson schools me at the 2019 Upfront Summit. My favorite sit-down to date.
(Upfront Ventures) | | | | |  | “It's suicide. It's corporate suicide.”
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| | rantnrave:// My friend MELLODY HOBSON is President of ARIEL INVESTMENTS which manages $13 Billion dollars. She was named TIME MAGAZINE's 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. She is Vice Chairman of the board of STARBUCKS. On the board of JP MORGAN CHASE. Former board chair of DREAMWORKS. She is a leading voice on the importance and necessity of diversity. And honestly, she's one of the most stylish people I know. Oh, and along the way she fell in love and married my hero, GEORGE LUCAS. She is beyond impressive. And a magnificent storyteller. One of the many benefits of my job is I get to sit down with lots of people that are way smarter than me. It's an addiction. An addiction to curiosity. Safe to say that this is my favorite to date. In a wide-ranging conversation at the 2019 UPFRONT SUMMIT in LA, we discussed the influences and mentors over her career; the role of a board member in good times and in crisis (stories of Starbucks and Dreamworks); addressing diversity in businesses, community, and content; and the future of media. I learned so much here and it's a must watch. Enjoy... In a time when media needs great thinkers and strategy, there is no better mind for my money than MATT BALL. He returns to REDEF ORIGINALS with his piece, "Big Media Isn't Ready to Fight Back (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 5)." At the end of 2018, a familiar narrative began to circulate around WALL STREET and HOLLYWOOD: big media will finally start to fight back against Netflix. Well, 2019 isn't the year. And that's great news for Netflix. Matt explains... Happy Birthday to JASON DEL REY, LOU WALLACH, ANDY MARCUS, TIM SOMMER, LAURA DESMOND, JAKE AVNET, ROBERT TERCEK, JOE SPEISER, and MARJORIE MILLER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Upfront Ventures |
| Mellody Hobson (President, Ariel Investments) sits down with Jason Hirschhorn to discuss the influences and mentors over her career; the role of a board member in good times and in crisis; addressing diversity in businesses, community and content; and the future of media. | | |
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 | REDEF |
| 2019 is supposed to be the year Big Media comes after Netflix and the OTT SVOD opportunity. It isn't. And that's great news for Netflix. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda? | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Looking back over seven years of the Twitter 1% stream, what can we learn about how one of the world’s most influential social networks has evolved? | | |
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 | Vox |
| The trendiest home renovation project of the aughts is now a shrine to the fantasy of male friendship. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Will Roper, acquisition executive for the US Air Force, talks to "WIRED's" editor in chief about making the military more adaptive, the role of AI, and what he worries about every day. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A guide to the most-and least-politically open-minded counties in America. | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| How Niki Nakayama’s kaiseki restaurant became a highly coveted reservation in L.A. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| Imagine suffering through half your life with an undiagnosed mental disorder -- only to find out it could have all been different. | | |
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 | Engadget |
| At Atlanta United, GPS devices are giving training a new meaning. | | |
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 | Midia Research |
| The recording industry’sefforts to build playlists or influence playlists have fallen short though lack of imagination, global thinking, context and shareability, but that just means that the industry is free to work more creatively with the wider playlist community. | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| Sebastian Gorka, late of the Trump Administration, stood before the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference last week and made plain the inner frenzy of a party that must place its hopes for 2020 on a President who had just been described before a congressional committee as "a racist," "a con man," and "a cheat." | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Polarized feelings over the new congresswoman speak volumes about politics and media in 2019. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| Nearly every apparel marketer is following consumer demand by leaping onto the green wagon. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| If you spout the right shibboleths, you can rise high in the ranks of the defense establishment despite being dangerously ignorant. Michael Griffin, case study. | | |
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 | recode |
| "To all the people that worked for me and whose money I took, you’re f***ing welcome," he said. | | |
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| Forbes |
| In a wide-ranging interview, NBA China CEO Derek Chang discusses the league's various growth strategies for the Chinese market, which has the potential to help the NBA become the world's most popular sport. | | |
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| Wired |
| Start with a sort of crash test dummy that has creepily realistic human ears, then add a bunch of road noise. Repeat. | | |
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| The Atlantic |
| For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship. | | |
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 | Earther |
| The world is trash. Even leaving aside the garbage of regular citizens, there is the world-withering, endlessly-accumulating waste of the industrial variety, which could toxify every inch of the globe, or at least those few inches that haven’t been toxified already. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Merge co-founders Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan talk Spotify and indie music. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, “The Big Nine,” Amy Webb outlines the need for courageous leadership to prevent emerging technologies like AI from getting out of hand and harming society. | | |
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 | Salon |
| The decline and fall of American global power is, of course, nothing special in the great sweep of history | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, still has to build a big base of augmented reality glasses users and the Magicverse platform that will create our shared reality in the future. | | |
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