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In LA this morning.

Our fearless moderator, Kara Swisher:
“I always say Google is Microsoft with pretty colors”

“I swear VCs are like a bunch of high school girls.”

She starts with a riff on Twitter: “a profitless, revenueless company that is proud of it…. Is Twitter all there is? Is 140 characters the best idea to come out of Silicon Valley?”

“Steven Colbert called it Twatting.”

15 responses to “Milken Lineup”

  1. looks interesting, thanks for the link.

  2. DDD – the video is long, but there are fun moments at Minute:

    28:00 on Twitter and
    37:30 on the VC herd mentality
    62:00 on Venter’s synbio work (biotech 2.0 with DNA synthesis without animals)

  3. I hate to say it, but I agree with her on the Twitter front. Its a simple, elegant idea, and it has a place… But I wish there was more talk around other ideas in tech right now.

  4. Yeah… I gave it 5 minutes and figured I’d continue later while working on something mindless. Thanks for the shortcuts. =)

    Audio files are probably more useful. I can listen while on one of my longer runs.

  5. Agreed. I love Twitter, it’s an efficient way to keep up on events and memes in my social group, but surely something more interesting is going on in technology!?!?

  6. Is it connected with Michael Milken?

  7. Yes… he is the organizer….

  8. Twitter. microblogging. And now peeps are using it to REPLY to people like it was bulletin boards.

  9. I’ve read a book on his activity in Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 80’s (well known book written by Dennis Levine). Some mixed opinions – financial innovator and visionaire or insider and stocks manipulator. Certainly very interesting person.

  10. convicted of 6 felonies…. keeps it edgy…. 😉

  11. At 28:51 Steve says, "We’re not investors in the twat."

  12. heh…. but… but… that’s what she said

  13. I take back what I said about audio files being more useful. I enjoyed watching your reaction when Kara said "twatting". (Here’s Colbert.)

  14. Best quote, just before 38:
    "They’re all silly until they’re brilliant."

  15. This seems appropriate here:

    Steve Jurvetson on being a VC.mp3 (3:12, 2.9MB)

    It’s another part of a conversation Steve and I had at the Tesla Model S premiere party in LA. He talks about being a VC versus science and research. I really appreciate Steve’s nuggets of wisdom.

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