Chris Dixon
(Founder Stories) Eric Ries: Missing The Bullseye Made The Lean Startup
In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Dixon sits down with The Lean Startup author, Eric Ries. Ries tells Dixon about his early experience with startup failure in Silicon Valley and how…
(Founder Office Hours With Josh Kopelman & Chris Dixon) Have-to-Have: Creating A Marketplace
Carla Holtze is the co-founder of Have-to-Have, which is offically launching later this week. She calls it “a digital shopping platform” that allows consumers “to save, share and shop for…
(Founder Stories) Buddy Media’s Mike Lazerow: “We Are Doubling Every Six Months”
Mike Lazerow is a serial entrepreneur who is the CEO of Buddy Media and previously founded GOLF.com, which was bought by Time Warner and University Wire and is now a property of CBS.…
(Founder Stories) Kevin O’Connor: Having An “Exit Strategy Is Total Bullshit”
Chris Dixon wraps up his interview with FindTheBest (and DoubleClick) co-founder, Kevin O’Connor by asking him about his end goal for FindTheBest. O’Connor responds that an “exit strategy is total bullshit,” he is…
(Founder Stories) O’Connor On What Makes A Good Entrepreneur: “Have You Told Your Boss To Shove It?”
Chris Dixon begins this episode of Founder Stories with DoubleClick and FindTheBest Co-founder Kevin O’Conner by telling O’Connor that “DoubleClick is probably the closest thing New York has to a PayPal.” Meaning the two companies share an aptitude for hiring…
(Founder Stories) DoubleClick’s Kevin O’Connor: We Were Netscape’s Profits
When Kevin O’Connor started DoubleClick in the mid-1990s, it was half an online media sales company for early Web companies like Netscape and Excite and half a technology company. “We…
(Founder Stories) Kevin O’Connor: “The Search Is Over, Tomorrow We Start The Business”
A serial entrepreneur, Kevin O’Connor’s latest venture is FindTheBest, a company that offers comparisons on everything from credit cards to golf courses. Prior to FindTheBest Kevin was a founder of DoubleClick, which Google ended…
(Founder Stories) Ben Lerer On The Startup Gold Rush
As Chris Dixon wraps his conversation with Thrillist co-founder and Lerer Ventures partner Ben Lerer, Lerer offers his assessment of the present day start-up environment. From his perspective it is a mixed bag. (Note: this was taped…
(Founder Stories) Thrillist’s Ben Lerer On Buying Customers And Going Up Against Groupon
Founder Stories host Chris Dixon continues his conversation with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer by discussing customer acquisition. Recognizing the line of thought that it’s not optimal to pay for…
Founder Office Hours With Chris Dixon And Josh Kopelman: Schedit
“What do investors look for in a beta? What are the key metrics?” That is the question Omar Tellez poses to Chris Dixon of Founder Collective and Hunch and Josh…
Founder Office Hours With Chris Dixon And Josh Kopelman: Profitably
Today, we are trying a special edition of Founder Stories that we are calling Founder Office Hours. Inspired by Paul Graham’s Office Hours onstage at our last Techcrunch Disrupt, we…
(Founder Stories) MakerBot’s Pettis: "We Are Going To See A Huge Amount Of Hardware Startups"
Chris Dixon heads down the homestretch of his Founder Stories interview with Bre Pettis and the two touch on the fact that the barriers to entry for founders foaming at…
(Founder Stories) MakerBot's Bre Pettis: "We Started With 3 Guys, A Laser Cutter, And A Dream"
As Bre Pettis continues his conversation with Founder Stories host, Chris Dixon, the two discuss the challenges of running a business that literally requires nuts and bolts assembly. In this…
(Founder Stories) Bre Pettis' Ambition: "One MakerBot Per Child" (TCTV)
In this episode of Founder Stories, host Chris Dixon takes a look at a 3D printer while talking to the maker behind the MakerBot, Bre Pettis. If printing 3D objects…
(Founder Stories) Eventbrite's Julia Hartz: "Facebook Is The No. 1 Driver Of Traffic To Our Site" (TCTV)
Chris Dixon resumes his Founder Stories conversation with Eventbrite’s Kevin and Julia Hartz by asking questions about their strategy for attracting customers. Not surprisingly Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all factor in…
(Founder Stories) Eventbrite's K. Hartz: "I Like Businesses That Go After Large Incumbents"
Eventbrite, the company that lets anyone organize online events and sell tickets to those events, was founded by the husband and wife team of Kevin and Julia Hartz. Chris Dixon…
(Founder Stories) How Mike McCue Came Up With Flipboard: "What If We Accidentally Deleted The Web"
How did Mike McCue come up with the idea for Flipboard, the iPad reader that’s seeing more than 10 million flips a day? In these final two video clips from…
Fred Wilson On Disruption: "You Can't Stop What People Ultimately Want To Have Happen"
New York’s Internet Week featured a panel discussion with Union Square’s Fred Wilson, Hunch’s Chris Dixon and SV Angel’s David Lee. We took a camera to the event and have…
Before Mike McCue discovered how to flip an iPad into a device that made reading digital magazines a cinch, he himself was discovered by some of the biggest names in…
Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, And David Lee On High Valuations And Competing With Platforms
“Building on someone else’s platform is a good idea, if you have your eyes wide open,” investor Fred Wilson told a packed room of entrepreneurs on Monday night at an…
Investors Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, And David Lee On Software Patents: Get Rid Of Them (Video)
Last night during an Internet Week event at General Assembly, investors Fred Wilson, David Lee, and Chris Dixon took the stage to talk about a range of topics related to…
(Founder Stories) From Paul Newman to Paul Graham with Alexis Ohanian (TCTV)
Alexis Ohanain continues his coversation with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon by discussing some of his activities and interests outside of Reddit. Highlights of their chat include Ohanian telling Dixon…
In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Reddit Founder, Alexis Ohanian takes Dixon back to his college days at the University of Virginia where he and co-founder…
(Founder Stories) Quora's Charlie Cheever On Building A Disruptive Knowledge Platform
Last week at Disrupt, Chris Dixon did a version of Founder Stories onstage with Quora founder Charlie Cheever. We learned that Quora is not looking to sell, but we also…
(Founder Stories) Gilt's Kevin Ryan—It Is All In The Presentation (TCTV)
Chris Dixon wraps his Founder Stories interview with Gilt Groupe’s CEO and Founder, Kevin Ryan by discussing the early sales strategy of Gilt – a strategy that was designed to build customer and brand loyalty,…
Ron Conway: 'New York Tech Is Here To Stay'
Today, at Disrupt NYC, CEO & Co-founder of Hunch Chris Dixon, Ron Conway of SV Angel, CEO of Betaworks John Borthwick, Managing Partner of High Line Ventures Shana Fisher ,…
(Founder Stories) Fmr. DoubleClick CEO, Kevin Ryan "We Lost 70% Of Our Clients" (TCTV)
Former DoubleClick CEO, Kevin Ryan led the company through a period of explosive growth in the late ’90’s. He took the ad-targeting company from a handful of employees to more than 2,000 in…
(Founder Stories) How Hashable Rose From The Ashes Of Tracked
Before there was Hashable, there was Tracked, Michael Yavonditte’s attempt to build a better Yahoo Finance. It was little too complicated, and not social. “I felt like I was on…
(Founder Stories) Meebo’s Seth Sternberg On Hiring, Growth And Flying High.
Like many start-ups, Meebo has been on a recent hiring spree. In this episode of Founder Stories, CEO Seth Sternberg tells Chris Dixon, “for 12 weeks we had to hire…
(Founder Stories) Meebo CEO: "What If We Could Completely Change The Game?"
Should founders innovate based upon customer feedback or is it better to develop from within and let consumer adapt. In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Meebo’s Seth…