That Was The Week for 4/14/23: Keith Teare on Substack vs Twitter, Apple banking, and Betaworks' AI Camp
Episode 1434: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss the looming Substack vs Twitter war, the stealthy entry of Apple into the banking sector, and Betaworks' AI Camp - Keith's start-up-of-the-week.
Keith Teare is a Founder and CEO at SignalRank Corporation. Previously he was Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd - A UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was also previously founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Archimedes was the original incubator for TechCrunch and since 2011has invested, accelerated or incubated many Silicon valley startups including InFarm, Miles, Quixey; M.dot (sold to GoDaddy); chat.center; Loop Surveys; DownTown and Sunshine. Teare has a track record as a serial entrepreneur with big ideas and has achieved significant returns for investors.
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
Episode 2118: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform
Episode 2117: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism
Episode 2116: Daniel Porterfield defends the personal and civic value of a college education
Episode 2115: Dmitri Alperovitch on how America can beat China in the Second Cold War
Episode 2114: M. Steven Fish on why Trump's dominance-style politics will win in November (didn't anyone tell the Democrats?)
Episode 2113: Does Silicon Valley have an AI Bubble Problem? Duh....
Episode 2112: The Woman Who Mistook A Stranger For Her Husband
Episode 2111: Tracy O'Neill's Return to South Korea to Discover her Birth Mother
Episode 2110: John Ganz on his German Jewish ghosts of resistance and exile
Episode 2109: Madhumita Murgia on why we are living in the dark shadow of AI
Episode 2108: Shannon Vallor on how to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Episode 2107: Matt Beane on How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
Episode 2106: Julie Satow remembers a time when Women ran Fifth Avenue