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🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E10: Caitlin Kalinowski — Head of Product Design, Oculus VR

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E10: Caitlin Kalinowski — Head of Product Design, Oculus VR

Caitlin Kalinowski [https://medium.com/@kalinowski007] has been a designer at the forefront of cutting-edge technology for over a decade. She got her start at Apple as one of the lead designers on the MacBook Air before she left for Facebook. Now, she is the Head of Product Design at

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E9: Jeanne Brooks — Virago Futures

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E9: Jeanne Brooks — Virago Futures

Jeanne Brooks [https://medium.com/@jmfbrooks] is the founder and CEO of Virago Futures [https://www.viragofutures.com/welcome], a venture that uses community design to rethink and rebuild media systems. In a world that is more connected than ever, Virago Futures brings people of all genders, races, and abilities

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E6: Max Ventilla — CEO, AltSchool

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E6: Max Ventilla — CEO, AltSchool

Max Ventilla is the founder of AltSchool [https://www.altschool.com/], a collaboration between engineers and educators to help build the future of education. He’s also an accomplished serial entrepreneur whose journey has taken him through Aardvark, Google and beyond. In this talk recorded at Matter in San Francisco,

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E5: Lindsay Stewart & Brian McNeill — Stringr

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E5: Lindsay Stewart & Brian McNeill — Stringr

Lindsay Stewart and Brian McNeill are the co-founders of Stringr, a startup that took part in Matter’s third class. Stringr allows media organizations to connect with professional and amateur videographers in order to source great footage. In this fireside chat with Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program in New

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E3: Camille Hearst — CEO, Kit

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E3: Camille Hearst — CEO, Kit

Camille Hearst is Co-founder and CEO at Kit [https://kit.com/], a community for helping to find the best products for any new activity or experience you want to have in your life. Before founding Kit, she cut her teeth at Apple on iTunes, and then YouTube and Google. In

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E2: Raju Narisetti — CEO, Gizmodo Media Group

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E2: Raju Narisetti — CEO, Gizmodo Media Group

Our guest in this episode is Raju Narisetti, CEO of Gizmodo Media Group. Raju’s journey is inspiring: from a dairy salesman to the head of a digital media group at the heart of Univision. He speaks with Roxann Stafford [https://medium.com/u/287e0168d545?source=post_page-----e67824358a35--------------------------------] , Matter’s

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E1: Morgan DeBaun — CEO, Blavity

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E1: Morgan DeBaun — CEO, Blavity

Our guest on this episode is a remarkable entrepreneur: Morgan DeBaun [https://medium.com/u/4996c04e1559?source=post_page-----d9710ddde487--------------------------------] , CEO and co-founder of Blavity [https://blavity.com/]. Together with her co-founders, Morgan figured out how to build a media business that isn’t dependent on a conventional advertising model while

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E4: Melissa Bell — Publisher, Vox Media

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E4: Melissa Bell — Publisher, Vox Media

We’re back with another incredible media entrepreneur whose story of scrappiness and tenacity shows that, with the right mindset, anything is possible. Melissa Bell [https://medium.com/u/d1c979c350ff?source=post_page-----181069750139--------------------------------] is one of the co-founders of Vox.com [http://vox.com], Vox Media’s news and opinion

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E3: Chloe Sladden— Founding Partner, #Angels

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E3: Chloe Sladden— Founding Partner, #Angels

Welcome to the next installment of our 6-part podcast series sharing the personal stories that illustrate the tumultuous journey of the media entrepreneur. Our guest this week, Chloe Sladden [https://medium.com/u/1a5c33c573a0?source=post_page-----8740853d3ea7--------------------------------] , has worked as an assistant to a literary agent, a management consultant in

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E2: Peter Koechley— Co-founder, Upworthy

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E2: Peter Koechley— Co-founder, Upworthy

We’re excited to have you along for the next episode in our The Drunken Walk [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-walk/id1213605129] podcast series. This time our guest is Peter Koechley, the co-founder and co-CEO of Upworthy. You know how that hockey stick curve, up and to the

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E1: Danielle Morrill — CEO, Mattermark

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E1: Danielle Morrill — CEO, Mattermark

Welcome to The Drunken Walk [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-walk/id1213605129], a new podcast series exploring the journey of the media entrepreneur! At Matter, we know that success doesn’t happen because of a perfect plan. Hypothesis-testing, action, learnings, and adjustments are all a necessary part of innovation.

“Our product is to surprise you.”

“Our product is to surprise you.”

Top highlight For our first time hosting a guest speaker in our New York City [https://news.matter.vc/matter-has-launched-in-nyc] location, we had a clear vision: to bring in inspiring entrepreneurs from a mission-driven, venture-backed NYC media startup. Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, co-founders of Gimlet Media [https://gimletmedia.com/