Cool
Cool Companies to Interview
- 6Apart
- Mena:Asked
Founded: 2001 Founders: Mena Trott, Ben Trott Current Size: Three offices (SF, Paris, and Tokyo): 100 employees Current CEO: Barak Berkowitz
- Amazon
- Bezos?contact
- jeff is the right guy
Founded: 1995 Founders: Jeff Bezos Current size: 12,000 Current CEO: Jeff Bezos
- Apple
- Eddie Cue? Or who best?
Founded: 1976 Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Woznick Current size: 16,820 Current CEO: Steve Jobs
- Archive
- Brewster: asked
Founded: 1995 Founders: Brewster Kahle Current size: 50
- Atmo.se
- Jonathan
Founded: 2000 Founders: Erik Gandini, Lars Johansson, Tarik Saleh, Kristina Aberg Current size: 12 Current CEO: Kristina Aberg
- Audible
- who should I contact?
Founded:1995 Founders: Donald Katz Current size: 193 Current CEO: Donald Katz
- Blip.tv - Mike Hudack (ES)
Founded: 2005 Founders: Mike Hudack, Dina Kaplan Current size: still searching Current CEO: Mike Hudack
- CraigsList
- Craig: asked
Founded: 1999 Founders: Craig Newmark Current size: 23 Current CEO: Jim Buckmaster
- Delicious:
- who should I contact?
Founded: 2003 Founders: Joshua Schacter Current size: 26
- Facebook
- who should I contact? - Mark Zuckerberg (ES)
Founded: 2004 Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz Current size: still searching Current CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
- Flickr
- Stuart/Cat: asked
Founded: 2004 Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Caterina Fake Current size: 26 Current CEO: Stewart Butterfield
- Google
- Larry
Founded: 1998 Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin Current size: 7,942 Current CEO: Dr. Eric Schmidt
- LiveJournal
Founded: 1999 (currently owned by SixApart. Dang Interactive, the parent company of LiveJournal was aquired by SixApart in 2005). Founders: Brad Fitzpatrick
- Mozilla
- who should I contact?
- ms baker i would presume
Founded: Mozilla Foundation, 2003; Mozilla Corporation, 2005 Current CEO: Mitchell Baker, President; Mitchell Kapor, Chairman, Current Size: 70
- MySpace
- who should I contact?
Founded:2003 Founders: Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson Current size: emailed for figures Current CEO: Chris DeWolfe
- SecondLife
- Rosedale:asked
- try cory if that doesn't work
Founded: 2002 (owned by Linden Lab, which was founded in 1999) Founders: Philip Rosedale Current size: 31 Current CEO: Philip Rosedale
- Technorati
- who?
Founded: 2002 Founders: David Sifry Current size: 40 Current CEO: David Sifry
- Wikipedia/Wikia
- Jimmy
Founded: 2001 Founders: Jimmy Wales Current size: 8 (less than 8 full-time employees. All other contributions are volunteer) Current CEO: Jimmy Wales (Brad Fitzpatrick is the Interim Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation)
- Yahoo
- Jerry Yang:asked
- Marc Davis who does their video remix research/development
Founded: 1999 Founders: David Filo, Jerry Yang Current size: 9800 Current CEO: Terry Semel
- YouTube
- founders?
Founded: 2005 Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim Current size: 67 Current CEO: Chad Hurley
- Outthink Media (used to be OurMedia)
- contact ceo david toole. (very relevant)
Founded: 2005 (OurMedia--2000) Founders: Marc Canter, JD Lasica Current size: little over 100 Current CEO: JD Lasica, President
- DeviantArt
- Angelo Sotira
Current CEO: Angelo Sotira
- DivX
- Jordan Greenhall
Current CEO: Jordan Greenhall
Key Remix People to Interview
Some initial thoughts (I can help source contact info - ES)
- Bomb Squad
- Lee Scratch Perry
- Prince Paul
- Diplo/Hollertronix board/remix community
- Dangermouse
- Paul Marino (machinima maker and organizer of Machinima festival)
- Jonathan Cullinane (creator of Narutrix)
- Jonathan McIntosh (political/ad remixer)
- Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman (power video blogging couple, not exactly remix)
- Dave of snafu comics (www.snafu-comics.com)
- Leaky Mug or Mugglecast Harry Potter podcasters
Cool/Key People to Interview
- Joi
- asked
- Mimi
- asked
- Jimmy Wales
- asked
- JSB
- Erik Moller
- Tim O'Reilly
- asked
- Brewster
- asked
- Benkler
- von Hippel
- Henry Jenkins
- Aram Sinnreich (writing diss on music mashup culture/biz)