Venture Capital

Add a Comment

Comment by carey lundin on January 16, 2009 at 1:20pm

Hey VC People!
We are finishing up our movie - Citizen Kate - about one woman's journey on the presidential campaign trail, next week at the Inauguration.

We will be looking to make a presentation to investors for a really funny, insightful movie that actually helped Obama win in Iowa, and the rest of her journey from Obama's announcement through inauguration.

Here's some news:

CitizenKate.TV has been tapped to be the official People's Correspondent for Vote for Change, a site created by Shepard Fairey, creator of the Obama Hope poster and Inauguration Poster.

We will be interviewing people from every strata of life: what is your hope for change?

In addition, Citizen Kate, in the spirit of Obama's Be The Change public service day, will do her Be the Hug campaign.

Kate will try to facilitate and film people who are diametrically opposed to each other hugging. Because peace starts with a hug.

Look for her dispatches daily from the inauguration on www.citizenkate.tv, on youtube.com/citizenkate2007 and theuptake.org.

Citizen Kate is sponsored in part by HD Flip Mino Cameras and Tarina Tarintino jewelry

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on July 9, 2008 at 1:57pm

Sun Valley Diary: The New-Media In Crowd

The annual Sun Valley conference has always been a place for established moguls — media barons such as Rupert Murdoch or John Malone are regulars on the guest list.

Often, however, Allen & Company, the investment banking boutique that runs the event, will invite a mogul-in-the-making or two, so the old guard can gawk at them (or buy their companies, or both). Chad Hurley of YouTube was such an example — and, indeed, the initial sparks of Google’s romance with his video-sharing service began in this Idaho resort town a couple of years back.

This year, the invitation list is loaded with moguls-in-the-making, a next-generation A list of who may run big media one day.

The names reflect the interests of Allen & Company’s founder, Herb Jr., and his son, Herb III. While Herb Jr. generally hangs out with the old lions, Herb III has been building up an impressive client list of new-media players.

With so many up-and-comers rubbing elbows with moguls — and their big checkbooks — deals could be aplenty.

So, who from new media got a much-coveted invitation to Sun Valley this year?

Here are a few names: Jay Adelson, chairman and chief executive of Digg; Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini, co-founders of Ning; Michael Birch of Bebo (recently acquired by AOL); Jeffrey H. Boyd of Priceline.com; David Friedberg of WeatherBill; Janus Frilis, co-founder of Joost; Jeffrey Jordan of OpenTable; Blake Krikorian, chairman of Sling Media; Max Levchin, chief executive of Slide.com, David Liu, chief executive of The Knot; Gary Marino, chief executive of Bill Me Later; and Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital (also a director at Facebook and co-founder of eBay-owned PayPal).

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/the-new-media-in-crowd/