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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

She was a cultural critic at the New York Times and writing about YouTube in a way that no one else was. HW: We first met when you were a columnist at the New York Times and, from my perspective, understood YouTube’s community better than anyone outside of our team. Critiquing but not judging. How in the world?

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

She was a cultural critic at the New York Times and writing about YouTube in a way that no one else was. HW: We first met when you were a columnist at the New York Times and, from my perspective, understood YouTube’s community better than anyone outside of our team. Critiquing but not judging. How in the world?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English. I explained it to Washington State, because that was ground zero of the United States at the time until it was New York. T omas Pueyo : Yeah. and everybody's heard of it.