May 18th, 2012

David Kirkpatrick On What The ‘Facebook Effect’ Could Be Post-IPO [TCTV]

Mark Zuckerberg’s remote ringing of the opening bell and Facebook’s initial stock trades were a bit anti-climactic in person at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York City, as we’ve written — NASDAQ is a digital exchange after all, so there’s not too much to see visually.

But being there was still a great opportunity to talk all things Facebook with David Kirkpatrick, the NYC-based founder of… → Read More

October 6th, 2011

David Kirkpatrick: Steve Jobs Was Energetic, Confident, And Uncompromising

It’s been a sad twenty-four hours.

This afternoon, I sat down with longtime technology journalist David Kirkpatrick — who wrote The Facebook Effect and founded the Techonomy conference — to talk about Steve Jobs. Kirkpatrick met with Jobs many times throughout his career, and he had some insightful anecdotes to share on how Jobs conducted himself both at NeXT and during Apple’s resurgence… → Read More