Panic with Friends - Jud Valeski, co-founder of Gnip, on All Things Early Internet and Big Data

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Panic with Friends – Investing for Profit and Joy

On this episode of the Panic with Friends, I talk to my good friend and Boulder resident Jud Valeski, co-founder and former CEO of Gnip. Jud started his career at Netscape right out of college, where he worked for three years. He then went on to AOL, where he worked for nearly seven years. Later, in 2006, in the early days of MySpace, Jud had the revelation that social media was going to be the next big thing. He believed that somewhere amidst the noise, there would be commercial value. Two years later, in 2008, Jud founded Gnip, which became the huge data business of Twitter. Gnip was later acquired by Twitter in 2014. Post acquisition, Jud left Twitter to join Honey where he spent five years as a General Manager. Honey was acquired by PayPal in a giant $4 billion deal. It is not everyday you get to talk to someone who has had back to back career home runs like Jud, so sit back and enjoy!

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For more details on today’s conversation read on below…

Guest: Jud Valeski

Profile: Co-Founder and ex CEO of Gnip

Show Notes:

• Intro (00:34)

• What is panic (05:05)

• The latent era of tech (06:50)

• Advice for kids today (15:15)

• Web2 (17:00)

• Twitter (22:35)

• The ad driven world (24:27)

• Gnip (25:35)

• Honey and browser extensions (27:20)

• Howie and Jud catchup (34:45)

• Outro (44:00)

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Host: Howard Lindzon | Producer: Knut Jensen | Researcher: Pete Weishaupt 

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