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  • August 1st, 2012

    Flipboard Founder Mike McCue Steps Down From Twitter Board Of Directors

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    Mike McCue, the longtime tech entrepreneur perhaps best known at the moment as the founder and CEO of Flipboard, is no longer serving on the board of directors at Twitter.

    McCue, who has been on Twitter’s board since late 2010, announced his departure via a Tweet, naturally… → Read More

    June 12th, 2011

    (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 his Founder Stories interview with Chris Dixon, McCue says that he had no intention of starting another company after selling TellMe to Microsoft (which he talks about in Part I and Part II of this interview). He was tired after ten years at… → Read More

    June 10th, 2011

    (Founder Stories) Mike McCue On Surviving A Downturn: The TellMe Years

    Mike McCue knows a thing or two about raising a lot of money to keep as a war chest for his startups. Recently he just raised $50 million for Flipboard, but at the end of the first dotcom boom he raised $250 million for his last startup, TellMe. Resuming his conversation from Part I of Founder Stories with Chris Dixon, in the video above McCue dives into additional detail about preforming triage… → Read More

    May 12th, 2011

    Mike McCue: FlipBoard Is Seeing More Than 10 Million Flips Per Day (Video)

    When it comes to publishing apps on the iPad, there are two models: 1) social readers that bring all your realtime news feeds together like Flipboard; or 2) single-title apps from major publishers like the New Yorker, The Daily or the New York Times. Those two models are also dividing along the lines of subscriptions versus ad-supported/free.

    In the video above, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue makes… → Read More